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Using Wolf Journey as a Correspondence Course. Simple as 1-2-3!

Step 1: Complete Your First Journey Entry, for which you will need to Decide On Your Goals, and consider the Resources You Will Need, then continue to Your First Field Exercise - Exploring Potential Study Sites and start to keep track of your progress on your Student Transcripts. If you feel you would like an interview to get yourself started, or a scheduled phone discussion at any time in the future to keep yourself on track, feel free. You may also schedule later discussions right here in the Wolf Camp office. Interviews, scheduled discussions, and email correspondences are designed to set goals for studying, answer questions you have about Wolf Journey, and to assess how to best continue. Phone (and later if requested, in-person office) interviews cost $1 per minute, although to ensure that you feel you are paying for services you find worthwhile, no payment will be required unless you request ruther correspondence. Chris prefers that initially, you email him directly and let him know 1) at what point you are with your studies, 2) your phone number and the best times to call you, and 3) if you think you will prefer future discussions or feedback via a. email, b. phone, c. in-office discussions, and/or d. participation in our fall-spring class series, summer training camps, or cooperative intensive programs, and 4) be sure to always have a new sheet of paper and working pen/paper available to take notes.

Later in your studies, email correspondence will be billed at the same rate, based on the time it takes to read and respond to your questions, but again, to ensure that you feel you are paying for services you find worthwhile, no payment will be required unless and until you request ruther correspondence. In other words, when you receive a service, you don't have to pay for it unless you request another service later, so every time you want another phone interview, in-office discussion, or email correspondence, be sure to either send a check or have Chris keep your credit card on file, though he won't ever run it until you say so when requesting additional correspondence. Chris will keep track of time and send you an email after each phone interview, in-office discussion, or requested email response with the minutes/dollar cost, and again, you can pay that when requesting your next correspondence service. So again, your first email to Chris and effectively, your first phone interview is complimentary. Please prepare a binder with paper to be used exclusively for note-taking during your conversations with me, and to hold hand-outs, field exercise journal entry form copies from Wolf Journey, and the end-of-chapter summary feedback papers I send you.

Step 2: After each CHAPTER you complete, including its Celebration Summary field exercise, Email Chris all the journal entries you completed along with your original Earth Skills Self-Assessment that you completed without looking up any answers, plus your filled-out Student Transcripts. Alternatively, you can deliver this entire package printed out via a self-addressed, return-postage-paid envelop to our home office address and include a $65 check for this feedback service. Chris will write you feedback on your work, and include recommendations for continued study. If emailing and Chris doesn't yet have your credit card on file, then either call with that card number, or send your $65 check to the home office address. Response time will be less than a week during the fall, winter and spring, but may be as much as a month in the summer. Alternatively, you can wait until you finish each book of 4 chapters and send $195 for a little savings.

I encourage you to email or call me at any time of day or evening; please do not miss precious days waiting for me to explain something you need to know – ask me so I can help you progress right away. Correspondence students should ask for help whenever they are feeling frustrated, elated or distant from their study site or instructor. Call when you need to talk, and if for some reason I cannot, leave a message on my voice mail. I check it regularly, and less frequently my email. However, remember that phone conversations, in-office discussions, and email correspondence about Wolf Journey or related life issues, all cost $1 per minute of my time, although again, to ensure that you feel you are paying for services you find worthwhile, no payment will be required unless and until you request ruther correspondence. Remember, always be sure to have a new sheet of paper and working pen/paper available to take notes. So in other words, as described above, when you receive a service, you don't have to pay for it unless you request another service later, so every time you want another phone conversation, in-office discussion, or email correspondence, be sure to either send a check or have Chris keep your credit card on file, though he won't ever run it until you say so when requesting additional correspondence. Chris will keep track of time and send you an email after each phone conversation, in-office discussion, or requested email response with the minutes/dollar cost, and again, you can pay that when requesting your next correspondence service.

Step 3: Finish all the books of Wolf Journey that interest you, and consider going deeper into the knowledge as described in the Wolf Journey Handbook for Earth Skills Students, Environmental Teachers and Outdoor Program Leaders.

Private lessons are also optional and available with Chris or any of our instructors. The cost for 1 hour lessons at your study site are $50 per hour, plus mileage. Further, upon ultimate completion of the 7 Wolf Journey books, or upon completion of the requirements for specialization (described below) in your area of earth skills interest, there is a complimentary Rite of Passage graduation ceremony that may take a variety of forms, based on your needs.

Journey Certification & Credits for High School & College

Journey Certification can be earned by correspondence students as well as those taking classes. You will need to write a series of personal stories and field exercises in one area of specialization outlined in the Handbook for Students & Teachers, and complete each chapter throughout the Wolf Journey series to the Specialization & Certification level described in the Handbook, then pass a written exam on awareness skills and complete a supervised survival trek in the wilderness. Expect to be enrolled for at least twice as long as those who work toward the basic Rite of Passage graduation. The cost for correspondence students to attain Journey Certification is the same per chapter as for those working toward the basic Rite of Passage graduation, except for chapters in your area of specialization, which require more work and therefore more feedback time on my part. Those chapters costs you $95 for feedack. We'll discuss which chapters will require this level of study. Rite of Passage graduation ceremonies are available for enrolled students who complete all six parts of Wolf Journey or Coyote Challenge. The rite of passage may involve a test of skills and a celebration with friends and family, demonstrating to the community that the graduate is a true naturalist. There is no fee for the Rite of Passage graduation ceremony.

High School or College Credit is available through a variety of means for your study through Wolf Journey classes or correspondence course. • The most common method is for you to arrange an independent study course through a teacher or professor at your school. Your teacher or professor will sign off on your studies as you progress through the Wolf Journey course, and arrange Natural Science course credits to appear on your high school or college transcripts. • You can also earn an accredited High School diploma through Independence High School, which allows you to study from home and pay for high school credits, earning a diploma based on the work you do in the Wolf Journey course. The Independence High School contact information is www.independent-learning.com or 360-595-2630. • Another option is to enroll in a college which allows you to design your own major, such as Fairhaven College at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, or Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Besides your general education requirements and electives at the university, your entire course of study could entail the Wolf Journey course, ending with an earth skills specialization through Wolf Camp and Bachelors Degree at the university. Check out www.ac.wwu.edu/~fhc/ or call 360-650-3680 to have them send you general information on their degree program. • Many universities also allow you to design your own specialty through their Natural Science graduate programs leading to a Masters or Ph.D. Email or call us and we will help you arrange academic credit at your chosen high school or college for your study of Wolf Journey.

Wolf Journey is currently being re-written but in the meantime, we are providing the Volume I and some other unedited portions freely online. Books and other resources which you will need for successful completion of field exercises throughout Wolf Journey can be purchased through Granny's Country Store or by calling them at 406-287-3605 to order. You can work through Wolf Journey independently, but we recommend this book series as part of our Correspondence Course, Academic Year Class Series, In-Depth Apprenticeships and Summer Training Camps, but if you would like an instructor from your own area to guide you while studying these skills, we recommend clicking on PrimitiveSkillsLinks.Com to find an earth skills specialist near you who can personally review your field exercises and journaling work, which you can keep track of on your Student Transcripts. Other schools and outdoor instructors who would like to use this curriculum for their own programs are free to do so.

Employment: We only need instructors with experience running camps and teaching in the field of Earth Skills Education, including skills of the Naturalist, Tracker, Herbalist, Survival Scout, Primitive Artisan and Sustainable Pioneer. Apply to become an instructor through our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship.