OASIS: Storytelling

OASIS (Outdoor Adventure Steeped In Story): Storytelling!

OASIS is a fully outdoor, nature immersed opportunity for kids to lead their adventure through exploration and imagination while being supported in social-emotional development and risk assessment. With a focus on Deep Nature Connection and storytelling, kids will play games, wildcraft, sneak, hide, start fires with traditional tools, build forts, share gratitude,  tell stories, scamper up and over downed trees, listen to stories, and whatever else their imaginations create.

OASIS: Storytelling will focus on kids as storytellers. This will include multiple hands-on creative activities that inspire storytelling, including telling and creating stories made in tracks, tracking on the landscape, crafting nature wands and hearing the stories from the natural elements around us, storytelling prompts, imaginative games, sharing thoughts, ideas, and observations, and of course, listening to stories! 

The program will culminate in a storytelling show (participation optional)! Kids will have the opportunity to share stories they have been practicing with other participants and their families (family attendance encouraged, but not required). OASIS: Storytelling will also have all the components of a regular OASIS day - playing, exploring, fort building, games, gratitude, climbing, etc. 

Garner Park, 333 S Rosa Rd, Madison, WI 53705

Open to kids entering 1st - 5th grade (kids entering 6th with an enrolled younger sibling are welcome)

Important Details

• Open to kids entering 1st - 5th grade
• Garner Park, 333 S Rosa Rd, Madison, WI 53705
• $185 per child, sliding scale $140-$230
• Date: July 23rd and 24th; Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
• We will be outside in all weather (rain, sun, wind, snow). Cancellation will only occur for dangerous, extreme weather or if both primary mentors are sick (subs are available but one primary mentor will always be present)
• Families must provide their own transportation
• Families must provide food for their child - lunch and snacks
• Black and Indigenous children/families take 10% off regardless of need. I support reparations and while I recognize that this is not the same as reparations, it is something tangible that I can do now. (What are reparations?) Please note this discount with payment.
• Scholarships available for those in marginalized communities with financial need, contact Coral for details

Please note each child must be registered separately to accommodate the system.

After registering here, you will receive an email with a link to full registration, waivers, and payment information. You are not considered fully registered until both forms are completed and returned and payment is received. If forms and payment are not received within 5 days of registering, your spot may be released to the waiting list. 

Thank you so much for the privilege of helping to foster deep nature connection in your children and in our community.