Our vision is to provide an educational culture where children are rooted, inspired and connected through the natural environment in which we live. We believe that place-based learning nurtures the essential art of ethical relationships and empowers children to become stewards of the land, community and social change.
A bioregion refers both to a geographical terrain as well as a terrain of consciousness – to a place and the ideas that have developed about how to live well in that place. When children participate in a transformative form of bioregional education they are better positioned to practice the “art of living well in one’s place” (Orr, 1992).
Community is what has made Little Mountain Earth Arts what it is today. Naturally, we involve the children in knowing community. What is community? How do we cultivate it? What are the ethical ways to connect in our daily life, to each other and this land? Little Mountain Earth Arts explores these questions with the children through experiential learning activities and lesson to explore with the children and also how we choose to conduct our business.