Instructor Information
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What We Offer to Instructors (updated May 3, 2022)
- No registration fee required.
- All meals at no charge, including supper on Sunday and lunch on Saturday.
- Reimbursement for travel expenses at 30 cents/km, to a maximum of $200 including ferry fares. Mileage expenses will be paid only for instructors coming from more than 50km away, but ferry fares will be reimbursed wherever applicable. The deadline to request and receive travel reimbursements is August 15.
- Free admission to any workshops of your choice, subject to workshop scheduling of your own offered workshops.
- Free admission for the instructor's children, not including food.
- Once approved, an opportunity for one assistant or one companion to register for free NOT including food. PLEASE NOTE: In order to take advantage of this your assistant or companion MUST be registered by June 15th (both on your Instructor registration form and with a separate General Registration form of their own.) Your assistant/companion must be helping you to run the workshops OR providing you with childcare for a young child. The person who will be filling your assistant/companion role may not usually be changed or traded after registration is completed; if special circumstances arise, please talk to council before the gathering begins.
- The opportunity to sell or trade primitive goods on Thursday afternoon.
What We Ask of Instructors
- At least four half-days of workshop time (there are eight half-day workshop slots, not including evenings).
- That you supply any materials required for your workshops. Material costs can be collected at the time of the workshops. If you plan on charging a materials fee, please include that information on your registration form, so we can let interested participants know the additional cost.
- Offer at least two of your workshops intended for children and/or youth (ages 6-15).
- Bring shelter for your workshop, if needed.
Workshop Requests
As always, we try to address the basic needs of the community as well as the variety of interests in the world of primitive skills. Each year the instructors and participants of the Firemaker gathering come together to form a village of friends and families. We settle into shelters, facilitate economy, prepare food, clean up, bathe, create and tend fire, gather and provide medicine and address emotional and relational challenges. As a group we have incredible amounts of experience in walking the talk in all of these life skills. This year we hope to embed the workshops into addressing our basic needs and conversely to address our basic needs with several of the workshops. While some basic needs will be supplemented outside of workshops, we hope that most of the needs will be met within them providing an authentic learning experience as well as minimizing extra work.
Please Note:
If you would not like to apply as a full- or part-time instructor, but would still like to teach one workshop, that is also possible. In that case, please email us at [email protected] so we can be in touch.
If you would not like to apply as a full- or part-time instructor, but would still like to teach one workshop, that is also possible. In that case, please email us at [email protected] so we can be in touch.