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Ricardo's Page |
Ricardo Sierra
The Executive Director of the Earth Mentoring Institute and founder of the Hawk Circle Summer Camps, Ric has led workshops, camps, school programs and Audubon Outings for over 15 years. He specializes in teaching and facilitating transformative programs using the skills and philosophy of wilderness to awaken our senses and our connection to the Earth. He is also the creator of the Hawk Circle Instructor Training Program, a former assistant instructor at Tom Brown's Tracking and Survival School and he has had many wilderness forays where he has put the skills he teaches into practice. A member of the Tracking Projects" Community Mentoring Program in New Mexico, Ric is also an artist, writer, and craftsperson. He and Trista raise their three kids while sharing many director duties for the EMI vision.
"The skills of survival, awareness and community lead a person ultimately to hearing the inner voice of the heart, of our own personal truth. This knowing of self is the root of real leadership, healing and our path in today's world." |
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Trista's Page |
Trista Haggerty
Trista, a founding member of the Earth Mentoring Institute, has been studying many forms of ancient rites of passage and initiations for over ten years. She has traveled to many sacred sites in Turkey, Ireland, Wales, France, Peru, Greece and Scotland, where she experienced the initiatory rites encoded in the beautiful landscapes. Using mythological archetypes and intuition, she guides her students through these rites providing fertile ground for transformation on all levels.
Trista has a BA from Bentley College, teaches the Instructor Training Program’s Inner Wilderness class and is the founder and leader of the Black Madonna Training Program, a year long spiritual training. Trista and Ricardo live with their three children at Hawk Circle.
"I believe that for us to truly connect with all living things, we must first peel away our layers that mask our most natural selves on all levels. Our relationships with others and the natural environment can provide the mirrors and signposts to our paths of healing." |
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Barry Keegan
has learned from many books and teachers such as Tom Brown, Jr, Errett Callahan and Mors Kochansky. He has taught at primitive skills events such as the Rabbitstick and Rivercane Rendevous, Moccasin Meet and Harvest Hope Festival and co-founded of Pathways School of Primitive Living Skills with Anthony Follari. He has worked with school programs and camps for the past ten years and was the supervisor of Native American Programs for the New York State Historical Association and Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown, NY. He is now the head instructor for Hawk Circle and is a frequent contributor to Wilderness Way and the Bulletin of Primitive Technology magazines.
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Luke Gaillard
has been involved with wilderness skills for ten years. He has learned independently, from correspondence courses, and at Tom Brown, Jr.'s Tracker School, the Wilderness Awareness School, The School of Lost Borders, and most recently, Hawk Circle. After several years of travelling the country doing intern and volunteer work in field biology, search and rescue, and wilderness therapy, and teaching in outdoor education centers and camps from Vermont to Malibu and from Seattle to Alabama, he has finally come to rest at Hawk Circle. Luke is a Kamana Graduate, Lifeguard, and Wilderness First Responder.
Hawk Circle Summer Staff
Our summer staffmembers are trained professionals who have extensive experience in wilderness skills, native crafts, storytelling, mentoring and adventure games. Many of our staff have attended our Instructor Training Programs or other Instructor Intensives, or have been previous campers at Hawk Circle for many summers. Most of all, they all share a love of children and youth, and have a passion for sharing a powerful learning experience in nature.
It is our staff that truly sets our programs apart, with many leaving a lasting, unique impression on campers that inspires, entertains and role models positive traits of expression, creativity, communication, focused learning and appreciation for others and the Earth.
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