To live or to lead in these changing times asks us to be ever wiser and ever braver when it comes to connection, community, and creativity. How can the skills and teachings of the natural world inform our diverse and often dangerous paths as we navigate towards the futures we are seeding? The Wildwood Path offers support for people and groups from all walks of life who are longing to integrate deeper connections with nature and culture into their efforts to live regeneratively and cultivate deep-rooted social change.
What is the Wildwood Path?
Broadly, the Wildwood Path is a school created by and for a diverse crew of people who all share a desire to live abundantly and humbly while cultivating the skills and mentalities that we need in order to support our communities and all Life into a thriving future. To that end, we gather to collaborate and share ancient wilderness skills, learn naturalist practices, develop our mindsets around how we relate with the living world, and craft ceremonies to honor the important thresholds of life. Our programs and offerings spiral annually around a central learning circle for women and/or trans folks in which cohorts of committed members gather monthly.
All of our work is continually re-imagined in the changing context of our society. All of our offerings are supported by a disruptive and wise group of experienced mentors and elders who link this circle with the broader world of deep nature connection mentoring and social change. We are doing all this for the sake of liberation, and we have found that participation in any aspect of The Wildwood Path can be a life-changing experience that gives folks from all walks of life the skills to feel at home within the abundance of the earth– and the confidence to weave these skills into our lives– even in the face of great duress– in order to contribute to regenerating healthy culture in support of a beautiful, livable world for all.
Along with the joy and hope, an enlivening debt of responsibility comes from learning and sharing these ways of life~ things that our ancestors practiced in some way, but that we can only remember now through the leadership and generosity of Indigenous people globally. We know that our ability to live and share these “skills” comes through theft and appropriation as well as ongoing generosity and dedication to healing, and we take that debt and responsibility very seriously as we continually try to show up for reparation and for the sovereignty of the Native peoples to whom we all owe so indescribably much. We invite you to join us in this journey!
The wisdom of nature informs and inspires all of us if we just know how to look, listen, and learn. How can your path be one of reciprocity and beauty as you work within and walk throughout this Wildwood world?
Who
Are you worried about yourself or your children being able to survive an uncertain future? And are you questioning the narratives of lack, fear, division, and helplessness that characterize so much of how we discuss “survival”?
Do you feel like there is a living, amazing, powerful energy at work in the land that you want to listen to and learn to tend?
Do you sense a connection between Nature’s systems and the ways our human communities work– or don’t work– to uplift and regenerate?
Are you longing to grow, connect, expand, and thrive? Are you willing to wrestle with your programming, your fears, your scarcities, and your frustrations in order to create relationship, justice, and hope across vast differences of culture, species, identity, and beyond?
Would you like to relate with the more-than-human world beyond patterns of extraction and exchange? Would you like to dive deeper into regenerative ways of thinking, acting, and investing in this wild world?
Are you already in love with the living world and just want to find ways to let that love fill all your work, activism, family life, and inner landscapes with wisdom and beauty?
We’re glad you’ve found us.
Where
We are so honored to have a home base on Wabanaki land, in Penobscot territory here in central “Maine”. Our offerings are led by the land here and you will see the cycles of these forests, gardens, rivers, oceans, and streets showing up in our designs. Our staff come from all across this continent and are based in urban, rural, and suburban zones. We hail from humid, dry, hot, cold, high, low, and more!
Many gatherings and events are based at our home based that we call Paridae Grove in Unity, Maine. We also offer services around New England and beyond, and sometimes offer all-online cohorts, webinar workshops, and remote mentoring or consulting.
When
The Wildwood Path offers outdoor and web-based classes and workshops year round in order to support and encourage deep nature connection for all. Check our calendar or Facebook page for information about upcoming classes, or get in touch to set one up! You can also sign up for our mailing list to receive emails a few times a year with updates on our offerings and evolutions.
Our long term learning cohorts {currently on sabbatical} run from October through June with a summer break before resuming each fall with a changing constellation of members. When meeting in person, we gather from Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon once per month.
Recent Posts
Cohorts on Sabbatical
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Connection in the Time of COVID19
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Nature Connection Skills for Black Lives
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Wildlife Tracking Workshop Coming Up!
Wildlife tracking as an avenue for becoming fully alive & in relationship with the living world that hold us so generously– what a concept! Join Trevanna Frost Grenfell of The Wildwood... Read More
I had the good fortune to work with Trevanna at Camp Forest last summer, where she was the Assistant Director. Trevanna harmonizes the essences of a true naturalist and a true teacher. She is knowledgeable about the natural world in general and the local, specific, raw natural world around us with its flora, fauna, and their properties, interrelationships and practical applications. Trevanna personifies the openness, curiosity, intimate receptiveness to and responsibility for the natural world which make for a genuine, not just academic, seeker of knowledge. And if that wasn’t enough, she shares her knowledge with such humility, compassion and enthusiasm that those around her are naturally inspired to want to learn, and participate.
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Mae - Boston, MA
Trevanna has a deep and true respect for the extensive diversity of learning styles that exist among students. She adds wit and humor to her teachings while upholding the integrity and significance of the skills.
Read MoreSable - Portland, Maine
Trevanna has a beautiful gift for mentoring Earth connection. Her gift for mentoring arises from her genuine and passion filled relationship to the Earth. She has this incredible ability, in which she is able to bring her community together and get them excited about being in relationship with the Earth; along with the practical/spiritual tools to help them deepen this relationship.
Read MoreJahan - Bridgton, ME
Trevanna has been a source of inspiration and direction for my primitive skills learning journey. Her events have brought members of the community together to work on those skills . She lives what she teaches and is a great role model.
Read MoreGabby - Canaan, ME
My experience with the Wildwood Path community left an indelible impression on me– as a guest, I felt honored, respected, welcomed, and ultimately embraced by a group of inclusive souls whose eagerness to learn and connect to the land and each other felt deeply rooted. Meals were lovingly cooked and shared, songs were ample, and a general sense of common heart-centered intention infused the space. I left knowing that Trevanna, Kyla, and the various guest teachers’ combined earth wisdom is supporting each of the participants through their journey of deepening into ritual and earth based skills. I can’t wait to return!
Read MoreWendy - Boulder, CO
Trevanna is one of the most passionate, motivated, loving, and deeply rooted people I know. I am always incredibly inspired after spending time with her, and she has a way of reaching every person individually on some level. She mentors with profound grace and it is truly an art to witness!
Read MoreDarilynn - Boulder, CO
Trevanna’s daily work and teaching is infused with appropriate, healthy mega-doses of singing, movement arts, silent reflection and prayer. While working with her, one often feels like every step and word contributes to a deeper eco-cultural relationship and community- building, an evolving process of becoming part of a world beyond and greater than ourselves. Trevanna is a friend to birds, mushrooms, and children. She has a gift for making fascinating and deep nature lore, cultural artifacts and practical wilderness skills accessible and fun to people of all ages. She can communicate and successfully resolve the struggles of individual children as well as more complex social dynamics. Trevanna manages learning, teaching, and collaborating with students, colleagues and parents with immaculate tact and grace.
Read MoreMaria - Washington, Maine
Trevanna is a powerful leader, in the most authentic meaning of the term. She holds holistic awareness for groups with love, compassion, curiosity, and passion. She leads by creating space for others, and expects and seeks wisdom in each group.
Read MoreRocky - Whitefield, ME