Open Positions
Open Positions
Teaching Drum Outdoor School as well as its divisions, the Healing Nature Center and Snow Wolf Publishing are looking for staff to expand its services.
Though it is not required, most of the staff for the three organizations live on the Teaching Drum campus as an intentional community with a primary focus of living in a balanced way with nature and self. Teaching Drum Outdoor School and its subidiaries are growing organizations requiring staff with a diverse skill set. If you are yearning to live a simple lifestyle – heating with wood, eating an organic and wild-foraged foods diet, and living in community with others who enjoy the same, then take a look at our open positions below.
PLEASE NOTE: Though many of us love animals, we have a no pet policy (no exceptions). We are a tobacco, alcohol, and drug free community.
To Apply:
Send a resume and cover letter to Volunteer@teachingdrum.org. Or call us at (715) 546-8080 for more information. For general information regarding compensation for those who live on-site, see the description at the bottom of this page.
Families are welcome. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual identity or sexual orientation.
Current Positions
“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” said Dorothy after looking about. “We must be over the rainbow!” We feel the same magic, which you can find out about by reading Growing Pleasures after the open positions listed below. But first — like Dorothy — we are in immense need of help, as our three sister organizations are growing rapidly. If you feel called to explore the possibility of celebrating and blossoming together with us, or if you want to get more details what the positions entail, please call (715) 546-2944 or contact us at volunteer@teachingdrum.org.
Following are our open positions, some of which can be combined, and some of which could be filled remotely.
Compensation for On-Site Staff
We offer room and board (includes rustic living accommodations and Paleo based food with wild meat and fish with organic fruits and vegetables), shared vehicle use, utilities, internet, and a $350 stipend/month. There are also plenty of opportunities to learn wilderness survival skills, free camping and canoe rental, discounts on courses, and free access to the Healing Nature Center.
Growing Pleasures
A longtime friend of ours recently passed over after a lengthy illness. Nearing his time of passing, he would describe how he was hovering between two worlds, which allowed him to see into the future.
“The School is going to take off,” he said. “I know things are great now, and you’ve been growing, but it’s nothing like what’s to come. I can see it, and I’m going to be right there working with you.”
Whatever he saw, it has us running to catch our breaths. First of all, we are no longer just “the School”— the Teaching Drum Outdoor School has two sister organizations: Healing Nature Center, and Snow Wolf Publishing. And they have taken off like bats outta hell! Snow Wolf is continually putting out new publications, with the latest title being Blossoming the Child: A Guide to Child-Friendly Parenting. Along with that, there are nine translators working on German editions to our books. The Healing Nature Center has built a Healing Nature Trail in Germany, three Trails in Wisconsin, one in Minnesota, and we are exploring with parties interested in establishing additional Trails in Europe and in the US. We opened the first Trail Guide Training to ten students, and five have graduated — they are now Associate Healing Nature Trail Guides.
Not to be left in the dust, the Teaching Drum is sprinting right alongside her siblings. The ideal number for a wilderness immersion experience is right around seven, and we currently have nine at Nishnajida, our primitive camp. Some exciting changes have been implemented by Abel Bean, our skilled Senior Guide: a one-to-three-month Wilderness Moon Program is now being offered in conjunction with the year-long Wilderness Guide Program at Nishnajida, It has been a great success and has been continually booked. The Wilderness Moon is a boon to those who long for a wilderness immersion experience but cannot take a whole year for the Wilderness Guide Program.
Another Teaching Drum program is the Guardian Archetype Training. Just before Covid hit, we had an 80-day Guardian archetype field training titled The Ultimate Challenge: to Run down a Deer. It proved to be a life-changing experience for participants. Our annual online Guardian Trainings continue to garner keen interest. We are currently developing trainings for the other two archetypes: the nurturer and the coordinator. You will find more on the three archetypes here.
Our third program is Teaching Drum Europe, which is a series of workshops we present every year to serve professionals and others in Europe who are not able to take courses on our main campus in the US. The European workshops also give us the opportunity to spread the word about our Programs to a new audience.
Our campus is growing as well: We have added six new residence units, and two adjacent properties have recently come under our caretakership. We now have the Giant Pine Lodge, which provides lodging and meeting space for workshops, retreats, and staff when needed.
The Brother Wolf Foundation (BWF) is the soul from which our other three organizations: Teaching Drum, Snow Wolf Publishing, and Healing Nature Center, evolved. BWF is dedicated to honoring the human/wolf relationship. Our staff is presently coming together to envision the next stage of the Foundation’s blossoming, after which we will be putting out the call for a Director, to serve as the cornerstone.
If this story resonates with you, we’d be honored to hear from you.