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Woodcraft Philosophy (aka Lifecraft)
Basics of Seton philosophy: An alignment of self-reliance and personal responsibility with an emphasis on our relationship with the natural world
Advanced Topics in Lifecraft and Woodcraft #4 User’s Guide to Ernest Thompson Seton Stories
In the three previous Lifecraft essays, I have discussed the Nine Principles, the Fourfold Path, and Learning as Transformation. This time I want to present a brief discussion of several Seton short stories. Seton vividly illustrates the lessons of Lifecraft through...
Advanced Topics in Ernest Thompson Seton Lifecraft and Woodcraft #3 Learning as Transformation
In this essay, I am taking a somewhat different tact, using by permission, the Learning Model of the Academy for the Love of Learning. This has been developed over many years and is explored through the Academy’s programs. I believe Seton would have understood this...
Advanced Topics in Ernest Thompson Seton Lifecraft and Woodcraft #2
The drawing above shows the Fourfold path, or Lifecraft Way. Seton’s directional graph was inspired by the worldview of American Indians and First Nations Peoples with whom he studied and from whom he learned the outdoors skills, natural history, and ethics that...
Advanced Topics in Ernest Thompson Seton Lifecraft and Woodcraft #1
“All boys [and girls!] are born good, are the children of God, and need only to be developed under sound leadership.” – Ernest Thompson Seton, Blazes on the Trail (1928) “In our work, we open to the heart of learning itself and rest upon a deep trust that the seeds of...
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