🌿 Family Deep Nature Connection Overnight - 2 Nights ✨

This 3-day family immersion invites adults and children (ages 6–13) into a shared experience of nature connection, ancestral wilderness living skills, and village-style community.

This isn’t a S’mores style campout…

This gathering is designed for family groups (including non-parent family friends) who want more than just recreation time outdoors. It weaves wilderness skills with stories, artful mentoring, and connection practices rooted in earth-based learning. The result is a weekend that is practical, soulful, spacious, and enlivening.

• Sit spot and sensory mapping
• Storytelling around the fire
• Night walk and awareness practices
• Cooperative games that build trust, resilience, and belonging

We create a simple, shared “village” where children are supported and parents can also relax:

• Communal campfires
• Song and gratitude practices
• Shared meals (prepared by families or potluck-style depending on setup)
• Opportunities for adults to drop into deeper conversation while kids play in safe, mentored spaces

Our Mentoring Approach

Our adventure will be steered by the 8-Shields mentoring model, a holistic approach to expanding our knowledge of place and deepening personal relationships with the natural world. Developed in close collaboration with people of earth-based cultures who hold the highest standard of naturalist knowledge, sensory awareness and connection with all living beings, the 8-Shields guides us through regenerative culture and joyful nature-connection mentoring.

​⛑️ Safety: We intend first and foremost to provide an experience in which participants can come to realize that nature is Safe, Fun, and to be Respected. The safety of us all is our priority.

​🥬 Food: Foraged and farmed, high-quality, nutrient-balanced, meals will be provided for the duration of the program. We are driven to support a healthy earth by feeding our bodies with healthy food. We will accommodate your dietary needs when you state them at checkout.

​🏡 Accommodation: A mentor of ours, Tom Brown Jr. said, "when you take civilization on your back, you put a barrier between you and the mother – and then we wonder why we're disconnected from the Earth." In the spirit of connection, we will minimize our sleep setups, while ensuring safety and wellbeing. Bring your own tent or tarp and appropriate cold weather sleeping gear. We'll spend our days and evenings among winding oaks and fragrant rock rose.

"Your ability to engage both children and adults was amazing, and we deeply appreciated your approach to teaching. The way you encouraged the kids to observe, differentiate, and connect using all their senses, through play, exploration, and hands-on learning, was truly inspiring. It was a fantastic experience 🫶 and we can’t wait to embark on another adventure with you soon!" — Mathilde, Mother

​About your guides

Joshua Glass is a deep nature connection mentor for adults, youth and families. His training in Portugal and the USA specializes in wilderness survival and the 8-Shields cultural mentoring model for nature connection. He guides students to build inspired, lasting relationships with the Earth through hands-on survival and naturalist skills such as fire making, shelter building, primitive cooking, wild foraging, awareness, animal tracking, and storytelling. He facilitates a variety of program types including adult, family and youth wilderness programs, earth-based Rites of Passage for boys, and Father-Son wilderness programs. He has also served as the Land Steward for Traditional Dream Factory in Portugal. Joshua serves to create conditions for modern people to experience deep and direct personal relationships with the natural world and to thrive by surviving within the nature of constant change.

Melina Feuvrier-Etevenard, a regenerative farmer and permaculture enthusiast, thrives in crafting, cooking, and the art of wilderness awareness. She's cultivated her skills in communities and regenerative farms throughout Europe. Driven by a passion for nurturing both healthy ecosystems and flourishing cultures, Melina has worked with youth and adults in pedagogical farms and nature camps. She guides herself and others in aligning the human lifestyle with life’s natural cycles. Melina uses wild-foraged edible plants to create vitality-rich, nutritionally balanced and exceptionally delicious meals. Her love for nature, crafting, and togetherness enriches her unique approach as a chef and nature connection guide.

About the Place

The program takes place at Traditional Dream Factory in Abela, Portugal — 30 hectares of oak forest, fragrant rock rose, and open spaces. TDF is a regenerative co-living and land stewardship project dedicated to rewilding, ecological care, and fostering deep connection with the Earth. 

​🦎 We and the creative living Earth await you and your family!

​Let’s forage, wander, navigate, get lost and become found—a journey of thriving within the land and your family.

​Want to connect before committing?

Contact us: www.kambium.earth / info@kambium.earth / t.me/kambiumearth on Telegram.