Full Moon Girls

A weekly nature immersion program for girls ages 12-16 (all inquiries welcome).

Fall Session Dates:
Sept: 10, 17
Oct: 1, 8, 15, 22 (overnight), 29
Nov: 5, 12, 19
Dec 3, 10, 17 (snow make-up day)

Spring Session Dates:

Feb: 11, 18
Mar: 4, 11, 18, 25 (snow make-up day)
Apr: 1, 8, 15, 29 (open house)
May: 6, 20 (overnight), 27 (wild foods feast & family celebration)

Sliding scale: $550-$780/Season for 12 Sessions.
Some further scholarships available.

*Families that register for both seasons by September 17th may deduct $25 from the total cost of their tuition.

Registration Forms:

Full Moon Girls Registration Forms for 2010-2011 - Word doc format

Mail registration to:

Full Moon Girls
PO Box 884
Greenfield, MA 01302

Staff Bios:

Dhyana Miller lives in the Connecticut River Valley of Western MA as a wildcrafter, earth-based mentor, and contradance fiddler. She designed her B.A. in conservation biology and experiential education at Hampshire College. Her study of ecovillage and permaculture design brought her in 2006 to Lost Valley Education Center near Eugene, OR. Since then, she has taught in a Montessori classroom and pursued further training from Jon Young, Penny Livingston and James Stark in the Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness program. Dhyana now invests in the future generations as an instructor for Flying Deer Nature Center, White Pine Programs and Vermont Wilderness School. She guides children and young women on journeys to engage in their gifts and rediscover their true selves within an ever-strengthening intergenerational community.

Efan Hsieh lives in Montague, MA and shares her passion for nature as an instructor with the Vermont Wilderness School, the Institute for Natural Learning, and Wolf Tree Programs. In college she traveled and studied ecology through EcoQuest Education Foundation in New Zealand, where she met Maori elders, tracked weasels, worked on an organic farm, and had many other adventures. Efan has a BS in Environmental Science from UMass Amherst, and completed the nine-month Intensive Leadership Program with the Institute for Natural Learning under Mark Morey. She has facilitated nature-and-culture experiences for people of all ages and in all seasons, for the Art of Mentoring workshops, the Community Nature Awareness Program, Bates College, Deep Wilds Wilderness Rites for Waldorf school teens, and through many other schools and programs in the Northeast. Efan supports each person to access her full potential through facilitating direct learning experiences and through gentle mentoring, and feels inspired to renew Rites of Passage experiences in the context of inter-generational community relationships. She has also consulted on implementing permaculture designs on a residential scale since 2005. She loves gardening, playing her fiddle, contact improvisation dancing, singing, yoga, wandering in the woods, fermenting foods, harvesting and making plant medicines, and spending time with her women's circle. She spent a year living and working at Brook's Bend Farm and is excited to reconnect to that land with a troupe of girls.

Mai Frank hails from the Pioneer Valley in MA where she mentors children in nature connection, designs and plants edible forest gardens, and teaches workshops for adults. Mai created her degree at Hampshire College in permaculture design, a type of ecological systems-thinking, and community storytelling. Currently, she immerses in nature with children as overnight and day program staff for the Institute for Natural Learning and Vermont Wilderness School. Mai´s experience camping in all seasons, Wilderness First Responder medical training, and solid common sense provide a strong safety-net for children. Her passion for song, story and play bring celebration and flair to her mentoring. With Dynamic Ecological Designs, Mai plans landscapes to optimize ecosystem health, produce perennial food and medicine, and connect people to the land around them. Mai´s foundation in no-till, perennial farming informs her worldview and her work with children. Mai believes that humans are nature, and that by immersing our children in the land and their senses we empower them to deeply belong to and heal their place on earth.