Humankind has had the same basic needs since the beginning of time for such things as mental and physical well-being, shelter, fire, water, and food. These were our basic needs when we lived as hunter-gatherers in the stone age, and these will continue to be our basic needs even into the future of the space age. The purpose of our Primitive Living Skills programs is to provide an opportunity for the individual to step back from this complex culture and get a sense of grounding and perspective.
Primitive living is life on a model scale.
Living with stone-age knowledge and technologies is a sort of metaphor of living that people can participate in and act out. In primitive living we go on an expedition to meet our basic needs with little more than our bare hands. In our quest we learn to observe, to think, and to reach inside ourselves for new resources for dealing with challenging and unfamiliar situations. The lessons we learn in primitive living helps us to live more resourcefully in contemporary society. The purpose of our Contemporary Skills programs is to help people discover resourceful new ways of meeting their needs in contemporary society.