The Figure of Eight
I love my world - paper free version
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Full of stories, games, activities and skills to help us all care for the planet we call home
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Table of contents
Welcome!
Welcome!
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Welcome from Chris!
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A kind of foreword by Dr Martin Maudsley
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Thanksgiving
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Introduction
Chapter One - What are we and where do we come from?
Chapter One - What are we and where do we come from?
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Chapter 1
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Activity - Blobsters
Chapter 2 - Survival Basics
Chapter 2 - Survival Basics
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S1 Shelter Building
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Activity - Blobster Dens and shelter building tips
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S2 Fire and fire making
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Activity - Making sparks with 'fire-steels' to light tinder
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Activity - Flaming Fire Pits
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Activity - Five Minute Fire Challenge
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S3 Water
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Activity - Go on an Elephant Walk
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Activity - Filtering Water
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Activity - Making Herbal Tea
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SB4 Food and foraging
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Activity - Fairy Plates
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Spokes of a wheel foragers map
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Activity - Cook a stir fry of spring greens
Chapter 3 - Sharpening up and using tools
Chapter 3 - Sharpening up and using tools
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Sharpening up!
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Activity - The circle of trust
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Activity - Getting familiar with the tool, a fixed blade knife
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Activity - Whittling! Learning safe techniques and Using the tool to make 'splitz-kids''
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Activity - Making Tongs
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A word about Pruning and Coppicing
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Activity - Making a bowl with an axe and fire!
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Activity - Making a Magic Wand
Chapter 4 - Senses, beyond the big five
Chapter 4 - Senses, beyond the big five
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Beyond the big five
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Tracking, Signs and asking questions
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Activity - Follow that log!
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Activity for sight - soaring eagles
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Activity for sense of smell -
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Activity for touch - Blindfold trail following
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Activity for hearing 1- Dear Ears
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Activity for hearing 2 - Guard a tree
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Activity for taste - Herb walk and blindfold snack time
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Activity for intuition - The Moccasin Game
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Activity for balance - Balance beam
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Activity for sense of direction - The blindfold drum stalk
Chapter 5 - Where am I?
Chapter 5 - Where am I?
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Aidless Navigation and Ways of Lost-Proofing Ourselves
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Activity - Which way do you walk?
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Activity - making an aerial or birds eye map.
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Activity - Songlines or RapMaps
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Activity - Find my magic map spot
Chapter 6 - Sneaking
Chapter 6 - Sneaking
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The Sneakret Service and invisibility
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Activity - The Sneak in Circle
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Activity - The Sneaky Assault Course
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Activity - Pheasant and Fox (practicing being still)
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Activity - Capture the flag
Chapter 8 - Bring on the Bards!
Chapter 8 - Bring on the Bards!
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Activity - Blobster Tales Pt1 Storylines
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Activity - Blobster Tales Pt 2 - How did you get here?
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Activity - Name drumming layer cake
Chapter 9 - Wild First Aid
Chapter 9 - Wild First Aid
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Activity - First Aid Role Play
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A Natural First Aid kit
Chapter 10 - Connection, Cordage and Knots
Chapter 10 - Connection, Cordage and Knots
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The Story of the Dreamcatcher
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Activity - Webbing
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Knots, hitches and good ole lashing!
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The Figure of Eight
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The Reef Knot.
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The Fisherman's Knot
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Clove Hitch
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Square Lashing
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The Timber Hitch and Killick Hitch
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Quick Release Bowline
Chapter 11 - Community, Citizenship, Feasting and Celebration
Chapter 11 - Community, Citizenship, Feasting and Celebration
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Activity - The Human Woodlouse
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Activity - Make a group Debris Hut and Totem Pole
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Activity - Giveaway Blanket
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A Shared Feast - from Pizza to a pot luck meal
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Celebration - A leafy firework display
Final bits n bobs
Final bits n bobs
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Suggested reading, resources and websites
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About Chris Holland and Wholeland
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