Earth Keeper Way – Teen Boys Nature Camp
Earth Keeper Way is a transformative 6-day adventure for boys to embark on a journey to manhood, connecting with nature and themselves through powerful, hands-on experiences.
Camp Type: 6 days, Mon. – Sat., 9 am – 5 pm, with one overnight on Friday
Dates: July 28 – August 1; 9 am – 5 pm
Cost: $550 through April 1, then $575
Ages: Rising 6th grade through High School boys
Location: Vail Valley, CO
Activities included: Rafting, journaling, rock climbing, hiking, outdoor skills, inner awareness, communication, and mindfulness.
Earth Keeper Way is designed to help boys transition into manhood by offering an immersive, nature-based experience that focuses on personal growth and life skills. Through activities like kayaking, rock climbing, hiking, and wilderness skills, campers will push their limits, build resilience, and strengthen their connection to the world around them. This program blends outdoor adventure with leadership development, self-awareness, and communication, giving boys the tools to navigate relationships and their future with confidence and clarity. They learn teamwork and true leadership as they build their emotional IQ, and learn about anger management and effective communication using Non-violent Communication techniques.
Camp Details
Only 30% of boys ages 13-18 say, “I feel confident.” (YPulse Study, 2018)
Earth Keeper Way is a transformative experience that supports Middle and High School boys’ passage to manhood through hands-on nature adventures. This 6-day program, including one overnight, is phone-free and offers boys the opportunity to develop key life skills, build confidence, and connect with their authentic selves.
Activities such as kayaking, rock climbing, hiking, and wilderness survival skills give boys the chance to push their boundaries and build resilience. The camp emphasizes holistic growth, helping boys balance strength, intuition, and a deeper understanding of their connection to the natural world and each other.
This empowering camp helps equip boys with life skills for the passage to manhood they are stepping into, and gives them space to ask questions and explore their own answers.
Each day integrates outdoor adventure with personal awareness, leadership, communication, and life skills as boys tackle team and individual challenges in nature. They learn teamwork and true leadership as they build their emotional IQ and effective communication.
Activities include rafting, hiking, rock climbing, outdoor survival skills, and robust games. Campers spend time in Council Circle, learning deep listening skills and how to constructively offer and receive reflection. They learn to recognize and support their personal values, set goals, and develop communication tools for navigating relationships.
All exercises, Councils, games, and activities take the boys one step farther in their rite of passage journey and invite insights to the question: “What kind of man do I want to be?”
On the final day, campers embark on a 2 to 4-hour solo journey in nature to deepen their personal quest. Upon their return to base-camp they prepare a celebration and set up camp for an overnight.
The final ceremony allows the boys to celebrate their personal growth and the bonds they’ve formed during the week. That night they sleep in tents or shelters they build, and together, they cook and clean-up, then share stories and drumming around a campfire they build themselves.
The investment in your son’s empowerment and growth is $550 if registered and paid by April 1, then $575. This program provides a unique opportunity for boys to embrace their passage into manhood while gaining the confidence, resilience, and communication skills needed for a successful future.
Investment in your son’s empowerment: $575
Questions?
Email
susie@womenempower.us
Phone
970.328.5472
Contact us to discuss a customized Earth Keeper Way for Boys for your Club, Troop, or other groups.
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Testimonials
“Earth Keeper Way is an invitation to boys to begin the initiation into becoming young men. This program is a process by which boys find their true strength, see their real gifts, as they as ask, “Who am I in my living with this place?”
Over the course of the program the rhythm of the days is intentionally intensified, culminating in a ceremony which calls upon each boy to call out his own great strengths. Along the way each boy is supported through appropriate trials of body and spirit and he must rely on his team, as well as his inner strength to succeed. He must listen more than he speaks. He must lend a hand at least as much as he works towards his own progress. In this process, each boy is uplifted as an individual, and taught to be a necessary part of the collective’s success.
In a culture where too many boys lack this initiatory process, and turn to YouTube, TikTok and marketing platforms without their highest growth at heart, Earthkeeper Way stands as an essential element in boys process of becoming men.”
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Facilitator
Susie Kincade – Founder and Camp Director
Susie Kincade made history in the early 1970s as the first woman to compete on a men’s NCAA varsity athletic team, diving for UCLA’s swimming and diving team from 1972 to 1974. This groundbreaking achievement was just the beginning of Susie’s lifelong dedication to empowering women and promoting the connection between people and the natural world.
Since moving to Vail, Colorado, in 1981, Susie has worked tirelessly on behalf of the environment, education, and women’s empowerment. A certified nature-based personal coach, ceremonial Celebrant, teacher, and earth-based Minister, she founded Women’s Empowerment Workshop in 2009. Through this, Susie designed and led global nature adventure retreats for women. Expanding her work further, she created summer camps for girls and boys, using outdoor adventures as a transformative platform for personal growth. Over the past 16 years, her unique programs have helped hundreds of pre-teens and teens build self-confidence and maturity.
Susie’s story is one of perseverance, passion, and a deep-rooted belief in the healing and transformative power of nature. Through her work, she continues to inspire and empower others to live their fullest, most authentic lives.
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