Vermont is a place of deep connection to the rhythms of the natural world, a place of close communities living close to the land. And Vermont asks those who visit it to think more deeply and with greater inspiration about the possibilities that exist for living well in the midst of today’s challenges, for living well in place. Hosted at a beautiful wilderness camp on Job’s Pond, in the heart of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, students on this trip will explore various paradigms for wellbeing and contemplate the ways in which a relationship to place often elicits a wellspring of wellness. Food. Adventure. Art. Ecology – these will be the lenses through which students will consider their relationship to place.

Students will mountain bike the famous Kingdom Trails, swim in Lake Willoughby, and hike Bald Mountain; visit with local farmers and cook together with ingredients sourced from the immediate vicinity; engage with local artists like Bread and Puppet theater and Thompson Timber Framing and use those encounters to inspire their own artistic expressions; engage in wellness practices like yoga, meditation, and journaling at Bald Mountain Meadow. We’ll also make time for deliberate reflection, seeking to be present with these encounters and the ideas they stir. In this wild, remote landscape, students will deepen their connections to the land and its people, to one another, and, ultimately, to themselves.