Youth & Family Offerings
The Randolph County Outdoors program envisions a community connected to the natural world and committed to experiential learning, inclusive activity, and outdoor sustainability.
In partnership with our schools, local community, and like minded organizations, Randolph County Outdoors promotes opportunities for learning and well-being through experiences that connect youth and adults to nature.
Follow along for inspiration and guidance on your nature connection journey.
Core Routines
Some easy practices to inspire connection to nature, self, and community
Sit Spot
"It is in the still silence of nature where one will find true bliss" -J.J.C.
A 'Sit Spot' is a spot in nature to connect, observe, and study life.
A good Sit Spot is:
• quick and easy to get to
• has some nature available (doesn’t have to be a lot)
• a place of solitude where you can expand your senses and let go of thinking
• a place where you can relax and feel safe
Once you find a place in nature that calls to you:
• Visit your place as often as you can and at different times of the day.
• You will get to know it really well and begin to recognize the changes around you from one season to the next.
• Allow yourself to find pleasure and feel a deep appreciation for what you discover.
• If you like to sketch or journal, be inspired by your Sit Spot!
Council Practice
"We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak" -Epictetus
Council practice permits each person to share and reflect on their experience, and it allows each member to benefit from the wisdom contained in the whole. Council is based on ways of communicating that can be found among indigenous societies all over the world.
The Four Guidelines of Council:
Speak from the heart
Listen from the heart
Be spontaneous
Be of lean expression
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