The Buckskin Revolution Circle is an online community for people of all skill levels who are interested in learning and practicing ancestral and land based living skills in a supportive community of like-minded people.
Our aim is to offer support, mentoring and camaraderie around living a life more deeply connected to the living world around us, our own inner nature, and to one another. While not a class or specific instruction, the community provides peer support for your exploration of these topics and boundless information for your own self directed skills practices.
What's Included
Monthly calls with Woniya
Support and Q&A on all kinds of skills related to ancestral skills like hide tanning and buckskin sewing; land based living skills like wild foods and homesteading; natural history and nature connection practices and more.
Access to our community platform
Round the clock access to our online home where you can post your skills questions, share projects and make friends with others with similar interests!
Small Practice Groups
These member-led groups gather on our community platform and meet regularly over Zoom. Current Practice groups include Ancestral Skills, Hide Tanning, Birds & Nature Connection, Homesteading, Food & Plant Medicine, and Parents & Kids.
Access to our library of webinars
Learn about goats with Callie Russell, Birds with Kristi Dranginis, Hide Tanning with Melvin Beattie, Hunting with Chris Morasky and more to come!
Plus bonus events and short classes!
Occasional skills videos from Woniya and invitations to participate in live webinars with her and other skills experts.
This community is for you if
🥬 You want to have a deeper connection to the food you eat, the clothes you wear and the physical goods in your life
💪 You want to learn how to be more self-sufficient and resilient.
🧺 You want to begin or to continue your learning of land based, nature connection, ancestral and wilderness skills, and to feel supported in that learning, regardless of whether you are a beginner or an expert
🏞️ You long to feel connected with a greater community of like minded people to learn and share with.
🏹 You feel drawn to skills that have been around since before life got so technical and complicated.
🌎 You care about lowering your carbon footprint and lessening dependence on store-bought and industrial goods.
🦌 You want to feel more confident and capable in wilderness and outdoor settings
💞 You want to know that you aren’t the only weirdo out there who is into these things.
How Does it Work?
The BR Circle began as a way to support the learning and peer connection amongst students in Buckskin Revolution online gatherings and courses. It has since grown into a robust community and wonderful learning resource in its own right, with an incredible amount of knowledge shared via text, photos, videos, webinars, interactive calls and live classes, and more is being added all the time. We currently have over 300 members of all skill levels who engage at different levels, from rarely to almost daily.
An exclusive community platform is the core feature of our Circle. This is where Woniya and members post topics, questions, projects, and more, and coordinate our live calls for both small focus groups and the larger community. Members can post publicly, to smaller groups, or direct message one another and the BR team, and have 24hr access to the platform. Current Practice groups include Ancestral Skills; Hide Tanning; Birds, Plants and Nature Connection; Homesteading, Food and Plant Medicine; and Parents and Kids.
What it looks like
Here's a sneak peek at the BR Circle Platform, with an example post by one of our members, a regular contributor to our hide tanning Practice Group.
What does it cost?
We believe the skills we share are part of what it means to be human and part of what helps make us whole and well. While many learning platforms and community memberships are prohibitively expensive, our aim is to make the Buckskin Revolution Circle as accessible as possible by keeping costs low.
Quarterly membership: $36/month ($12/month)
Annual membership: $96/month ($8/month) 40% off quarterly price, giving you over 3 months for free
To encourage connection between and continuity of members, 3 months is our minimum enrollment period. Another way we encourage continuity is by the significant savings we give our annual members. While annual members can join us any time, quarterly memberships is open just once each season, so these members join the community as a cohort and learn the ropes together.
We are currently enrolling quarterly members for Summer 2021.
Enroll in Seasonal Membership $36
Not ready to commit to a year? Join us for a seasonal (3 month) membership to meet the community and see if its for you!
Currently enrolling for June -August 2021. Enrollment closes June 7
Woniya Thibeault is the woman behind Buckskin Revolution.
She has been teaching ancestral skills for over 20 years and doing so has been her passion and her lifeway for all her adult life.
She has spent many years living off grid- growing and gathering much of her diet, tanning hides for clothing, harvesting willow for the baskets she gathers food into, spinning wool into yarn, and more. She combines her formal education, with a Master's Degree in Environmental Science, and her decades of experience with wilderness living to teach in a way that brings a knowledge of and love of the living world around her. She has put these skills to the test in her many adventures living in a variety of wilderness locales. if she looks a little familiar to you, it may because you watched her put this experience to the test on Season 6 of Alone, where was the runner up of the season, spending 10 1/2 weeks surviving by herself on an Arctic peninsula in the Fall and Winter of 2018.
The Buckskin Revolution Community and courses are designed to share the skills and knowledge, and also the sense of belonging and connection, with world of people who are hungry to connect with the world around them and the more ancient parts of themselves in deeper ways.
Viva la Revolution!
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