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Lorene Wapotich is the Founding Director of Feet on the Earth Programs in Boulder, CO an organization dedicated to developing community through nature connection and providing meaningful nature-based rites of passage for youth. She is the author of Her Feet on the Earth: Creating Nature-Based Rites of Passage for Girls, which shows parents and community members how to create powerful first blood (menarche) and young womanhood (adolescent) initiations for girls. Lorene defines empowerment as positive identity formation, connection to authentic self, and the development of resilience. Her book articulates how to empower adolescent girls using long-term, nature-based mentoring and community-supported wilderness rites of passage and she applies this model in her programs. Lorene holds a Bachelors Degree in Wilderness Leadership and Natural History Education from Prescott College and a Masters in Education with a focus on girls’ development, nature-based mentoring and rites of passage from Lesley University. She has 20 years experience as an herbalist in the Wise Woman Tradition, an outdoor educator, and a wilderness guide. Lorene has designed and led wilderness expeditions and nature-based programs for people aged 7 to 107. She studied Earth-living (a.k.a. survival) skills and Coyote/Cultural Mentoring with Tom Brown Jr. and Lorene is a life-long learner, dynamic teacher, passionate speaker, and articulate writer. To find out more about the programs and workshops she leads visit the Feet on the Earth Programs website at: http://www.feetontheearth.org. To read excerpts of her book visit her blog at: http://lorenewapotich.wordpress.com.
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