Nature-Based Educational Enrichment
Modern educational settings frequently confine learners to four walls, relying on screens and implementing rigid developmental timelines. Treehouse Outdoor Learning removes the walls and flips this dynamic entirely. Designed as energetic outdoor ventures, lessons plant natural wonder and grow it into real-life wisdom utilizing the tenants of executive function and building practical rings of application around core academics. Each session is multi-age and cross-curricular, ensuring strong relational growth and well-rounded learning. By leveraging the natural world, we transform cognitive skill-building into a series of real world adventures, creative endeavors, open-ended outdoor challenges, & self-directed inquiries stemming from authentic motivation.
Let nature teach its course.
Our core operating philosophy is well-grounded, well-founded & simple: Let nature teach its course. We trust the natural environment to provide the necessary roots of resistance, inspiration, and sensory feedback that build resilient, independent, and brilliantly curious minds.
Meet Our founder
Dori Beltz-Wiggers
Certified Forest School Director (Forest School Institute)
Certified Forest School Teacher (Forest School Institute)
Sylvotherapy Certification (Alma Oasis)
Wilderness First Aid/CPR Certification (Kalamazoo College)
American Forest Kindergarten Association, educator (member)
CliftonStrengths® Trained (Maximizer/Positivity/Adaptability/Strategic/Achiever)
Elementary & Secondary Teaching Certification (Hope College)
BA in Biology & Physical Education (Hope College)
Elementary School Teacher (Holland, MI/Belding, MI)
School Principal (Tree of Life School, Kalamazoo, MI)
Family & Community Pastor (The River Church, Kalamazoo, MI)
Beltz Barnyard & Camp Whimsy Founder (Kalamazoo, MI)
Recreation Director (Camp Geneva, Holland, MI)
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