Educational Framework
Our Mission is to build community by providing learning experiences that celebrate the wilderness heritage, art, history, culture, and craft of the people of northern Minnesota.
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Our vision is to be a gathering space where all Ely area residents and visitors forge new connections, build a stronger community, and develop as individuals through experiential learning that honors the crafts and cultures of our region.
Vision
Values
Freedom
We encourage liberation and personal agency that uplifts and enables our community to be interconnected. We can ensure that we have all the things we need.
Intergenerational Stewardship
We hold reverence for each other, the land with which we live, our young ones, our elders, and otherly abled people, through which we commit to a responsibility toward them and future generations.
Joy
We cultivate joy as a practice. We know joy and play create space in our minds and bodies for creativity, empathy, and expansion. It is our inherent birthright to seek and experience joy.
Resilience
We recognize resilience as the capacity to hold challenge in its fullness.
Wellness & Connection
We commit to combating the “epidemic of loneliness” by holistically embracing interdependence, belonging, and full relationships with others and ourselves.
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