Summer Camp Instructor/ Nature Mentor

Get back to your roots and enhance your connection to the earth while you work with the Living Earth School! We will explore the surrounding forests and streams as we build natural shelters, make fires without matches, and prepare wild plants for food. This is not your ordinary camp experience.  Each team member gets training in survival skills and how to be an effective nature mentor. Our aim is to see the light in each person, camper or staff, and help inspire their passions and gifts. If you're ready to grow and learn a lot about yourself, how to be an effective mentor, and to deepen your connection with the earth, then please read on.

Many Instructors return year after year to Living Earth School, but we always need a few more. Are you one of them? The Instructors are the heart of camp.  Not only are they responsible for providing instruction, supervision and team support during program days, they bring the spirit of Living Earth School to the campers through their own curiosity, creativity and community amongst each other. Instructors design lessons and take the lead on activities throughout the day, sometimes managing groups on their own, and sometimes with team members. Instructors report any problems or injuries to their Coordinator, participate in daily meetings and help out with a positive attitude.

The summer camp season runs June 5 through August 12, with a week of training and a break week July 3-7. If you need housing, you are invited to stay at our Staff Camp. Here there are individual tent spaces, shared outdoor covered kitchen, shower, internet and toilet amenities as well as the comradery of living beside your coworkers and diving deeper into natural living skills. 

After interviewing, we may offer you an Assistant or Lead-Instructor position.

For full job descriptions and application, please visit our Jobs page. Email kelly.l@livingearthva.org with any questions.

Special Benefits

• swim in a river every day!
• individual training in survival and mentoring skills!
• work with a variety of passionate folks!
• opportunity to go on a canoe or backpacking expedition!