Find Your North - Fall Educators’ Retreat

Find Your North - Fall Educators’ Retreat

📅 Friday, September 18
🕕 10:00 am
📍 Mount Carleton Provincial Park
👥 For New Brunswick Wabanaki, Francophone & Anglophone Educators

As the new school year gathers momentum, take a purposeful pause to return to balance, recharge your energy, and find your direction.

The Sustainability Education Alliance invites you to gather for a fall educators' retreat on the shores of Nictau Lake beneath the beauty of Mount Carleton for connection, learning, and renewal. Explore the wisdom of the land through experiences shared by a variety of presenters and guides. Build confidence with bushcraft skills with Marc-André Caissie from Forêt Acadienne School of Bushcraft. Discover practical ways to bring land-based learning into your work with children, youth, and communities with Great Minds Think Outside and Learning Nature’s Way. and be inspired to think differently about supporting at-risk youth—discovering creative ways to engage, build connections, and connect them with resources to thrive.

Music, nature journalling, and nature-inspired art will be woven throughout the retreat, inviting you to slow down, notice, create and experience the land in different ways. There will be opportunities to welcome the beauty of sunrise over Nictau Lake, and evenings spent around the campfire for storytelling and stargazing with knowledgeable guides beneath the night sky. As night settles, fall asleep to the call of the loon and the song of the barred owl.

Take time to breathe deeply and reconnect with what guides you. Leave with a new sense of direction - grounded, refreshed and inspired.


You will leave this retreat with:

- A certificate of completion
- A nature journal filled will ideas, reflections, and take-home activities
- Practical resources and connections to support your work with children and youth
- Greater confidence in bushcraft skills and outdoor experiences
- Ideas and resources for incorporating outdoor and land-based learning into your work with young people
- New perspectives and strategies for engaging and supporting youth
- Renewed energy, connection, and inspiration for the year ahead

Retreat Fee: $150 (this includes meals, accommodations & workshops)

* Don’t have camping gear? No worries - we have you covered! *

If the retreat fee is a barrier to participating, we have limited subsidies. Contact jill.young@nben.ca to make arrangements before registering.

For more information on the retreat or about New Brunswick Environmental Network gor check out their website at https://nben.ca/en/get-involved/events/sustainability-education-alliance/1618-find-your-north.html