Foster Care Training

The San people of the Kalahari and the aboriginal peoples of Australia both have intact cultures well over 50,000 years old. Both are characterized by extra-ordinarily deep connection with the living world, as embodied in connection phenomenology, and both cultures have sets of customs for relating with themselves, one another, and the living world that have striking commonalities. One of these is the degree to which both cultures are masters of tracking. Tracking is generally thought of as following animal trails in the wild, but in truth it is the ultimate form of pattern recognition in nature. It requires deep ecological knowledge, sensory calibration, and mindful awareness. It is an ecological metaphor for following with attention. We can track animals, we can track physiology, we can track ourselves, we can track others, we can track dreams. In this session we’ll explore tracking and deep nature connection through the lens of this ancestral technology.

*PLEASE NOTE: GABRIEL KRAM’S RESTORATIVE PRACTICES SERIES IS A CLOSED COHORT TO PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE ALREADY ATTENDED PAST SESSIONS. NEW MEMBERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO THE CURRENT COHORT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND FUTURE COHORTS, REACH OUT TO THE TRAINING DEPARTMENT AT [email protected] ABOUT JOINING. Please choose either the Thursday or the Friday group to attend, but please do not attend both. Attendance at all 10 sessions is preferred. Please make sure to sign up to attend all sessions on either Thursdays or Fridays. This cohort will last from approximately late November to March, with a break over the winter holidays.