The MissionThe mission of Golden Acorns Summer Camp Inc. is to foster a peaceful sustainable and compassionate future for the next generation of Northern New Mexico. This is achieved by offering children ages 5-11 an integrated opportunity for experiential and interactive learning with people of distinctly different cultures including exploration of their arts, spirituality, traditional and non-traditional healing methods, and environmental philosophies.
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The FounderHelen Wildman Meehan has been cultivating the idea of Golden Acorns Summer Camp since early childhood. After more than thirty years of experience in the realm of massage therapy and energetic healing, and living abroad for fifteen years in England, Spain, and Australia, she coalesced her knowledge of the healing arts, sustainable practices, better communications, and world cultures to bring forth a camp that offers an all-embracing view of the world from the inside out. At Golden Acorns, children learn to focus and manage their inner environment through practices such as Yoga, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong. The children learn to care for Mother Earth and to cultivate herbs and vegetables…how to make healing salves and remedies…how to communicate with compassion and mediate effectively with other human beings…and to be more open-hearted and open-minded to people of other cultures; sometimes incorporating aspects of other lifestyles into their own. Enlarging the scope of their lives.
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The History & Focus
Golden Acorns Summer Camp, Inc. was officially started in 2009, and obtained its 501(c) (3) status in 2011. Golden Acorns is passionately dedicated to the promotion of living arts and culture for children age five to eleven. Each summer, Golden Acorns provides six, week-long sessions featuring a curriculum that embraces both healing arts and cultural experiences. Children have an opportunity to experience diverse, holistic disciplines, such as yoga, t’ai chi, mediation, intuitive development,
permaculture, sustainability, world dance, music, and storytelling.
The camp is hosted at area campuses and brings instructors from across the world that specialized in an array of disciplines. Additional support is provided by camp counselors who provide additional guidance to our young campers. This year, week-long camp sessions will include explorations of the cultures of Nigeria, Ethiopia, Korea, Urban, and New Mexico (including Native American, Spanish, and Sephardic components). Founder Helen Wildman Meehan says,” the critical juncture in world history makes these lessons the key to peaceful solutions of the problems we face today.” It is our hope that our campers will develop a healthy appreciation of the beauty of cultural similarities and differences.
permaculture, sustainability, world dance, music, and storytelling.
The camp is hosted at area campuses and brings instructors from across the world that specialized in an array of disciplines. Additional support is provided by camp counselors who provide additional guidance to our young campers. This year, week-long camp sessions will include explorations of the cultures of Nigeria, Ethiopia, Korea, Urban, and New Mexico (including Native American, Spanish, and Sephardic components). Founder Helen Wildman Meehan says,” the critical juncture in world history makes these lessons the key to peaceful solutions of the problems we face today.” It is our hope that our campers will develop a healthy appreciation of the beauty of cultural similarities and differences.
