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Coming to the end of 2024, we reflect on the highlights of the year gone by. For us, we have to say, our favourite times have been coming together with other Home Educating families for excursions to get outdoors.

We have had a few fantastic excursions this year, from a Bushrangers Survival 101 Day, to a Wetlands Tour and CFA Fire Safety excursion. They have all been fantastic experiences for the families attending. 

This December, the Yea CFA (just outside the Yarra Valley)  hosted a Free Homeschooling Fire Safety Awareness Excursion for the Dindi Wild + Free Co.

We had all ages in attendance, from little siblings to mid teens. 

This presentation was delivered by CFA volunteers who presented an engaging and interactive educational experience for all. 

The excursion covered a range of topics, such as:

– How to identify ‘hot spots’ or fire hazards around the home

– How to help your family develop a home fire escape plan

– Basic actions for extinguishing clothing fires and treating burn injuries

– The science behind fire according to the fire triangle

– How families and communities get ready for the bushfire season

Fire Safe Kids is entirely free of charge and provides:

– strong links to the Victorian Curriculum for all levels of primary

interactive and engaging activities

– giveaways for students including stickers and certificates

– pre- and post-visit lesson plans and support materials for homeschooling parents.

The wonderful Yea CFA Volunteers lead our Home Educators through a valuable learning experience. 

The families and children were all very much engaged and are so grateful for the information shared by the team! The truck tours were a wonderful way to learn about the important work our Volunteers perform in our community! 

Fire Safe Kids is a fantastic educational program! We cannot recommend this experience highly enough! 

Also this month, our little Collective got together to enjoy a morning of Raspberry Picking at a local (spray free) farm, followed by a beautiful park play in the sunshine. 

We also had our final catch up of the year with some of the new Home Educating families that have joined our local community. 

We are excited about the coming year as we have set out to participate in a number of adventures with our growing little collective. We start out with a Heritage Railway + Museum Tour in January, a Food Forest Tour in February, Basket Weaving Course in March and Adventure Resort Day in April. 

From there, we have our sights set on a number of skills building activities for our Northeast regional Home Educating Families. 

If you would like to find out about our upcoming plans and events, head to www.dindiwildandfree.co or join our facebook community Victoria or Dindi Wild + Free Co.  

Dindi Wild + Free Co is the Murrindindi Home Education Collective that explores the great outdoors of our wonderfully wild region together.

We are dedicated to promoting healthy habits from childhood woven into education for a lifelong foundation of character and wellbeing. 

Our collective offers wilderness adventures and learning opportunities in the region, welcoming like minded nature lovers to come and explore with fellow freedom loving Home Educators of all ages.

What does Wild + Free mean to us? 

The Wild + Free movement is based upon the Ainsley Arment book “The Call of the Wild + Free.” This book was inspired by the Henry David Thoreau quote; “All good things are wild and free,” Ainsley Arment is the founder of Wild + Free, co-founder of Wild Explorers Club and the Wild + Free Farm Village, and host of the weekly Wild + Free podcast. 

Our Wild + Free Collective has been inspired by this philosophy and growing global movement, to build our own community of Wilderness Explorers as an essential element of education through exploration. 

To us, Wild + Free holds many significant meanings, beyond what may be commonly assumed as an entirely unstructured or undisciplined approach. To us, this is purely a missing element in so many children’s (and families) lives, that we wish to restore through a simple connection to nature… as we feel we were designed to have.  

While we are not limited to an unschooling approach in our community, we believe that free play is an important aspect of childhood development, and seek to weave this throughout our daily and weekly rhythms to form strong foundations for holistic health and wellbeing. 

So, what, if not “without leadership or dare I say it discipline” does “Wild + Free” mean to us? 

Here are a few little thoughts on what it represents to us as  Dindi (& Victoria’s) Wild + Free Co.

Wild is as it is in our natural world and, or; was created by the Grand Organised Design (Universe if you prefer).

Free is what we were made to be, unbound by the ways of the world. 

Free from perpetual overdrive culture and the temptation of buying into the idea of never being enough and “keeping up.”

Wild, unshaped by prejudice, judgment & arbitrary expectations but the ultimate goal of peace & enlightenment.

Free to be as we were designed, not according to opinions, but to live out our unique purpose and calling – seeking wisdom and knowledge accordingly, not by the standards of the mere minds of cluttered bias and dogma. 

Wild, as in; retreating as we were meant to, so that we may hear the words of wisdom being whispered in our hearts. The voice above and within, only meant for us.

In the wilderness that has so often revealed great wisdom, through millennia… out in the quiet light that fortifies. 

Not hiding behind walls, beyond necessity. 

Free… to quietly breathe in the life we’ve been given, undistracted by the ideas, limitations and constructs of time and expectation. 

So, if this resonates with you, and you wish to join us for one of our upcoming adventures, catch ups or excursions, get in touch or be sure to follow us on social media @dindi.wildandfree.co

Finally, as we have come to the end of a year of monthly Home Education Journal sharing over on the Holistic Home Education blog & instagram page… be sure to follow along for our soon to be released book entitled Holistic Home Education – Learning with the Heart & Hands at www.holistichomeeducation.com