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Jonathan Bitz

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Art in our Life

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Let it Go: The Parasympathetic Nervous System

Jonathan Bitz

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Let it Go: The Parasympathetic Nervous System

The importance of down regulation of the nervous system from sympathetic, to a parasympathetic state.

Jonathan Bitz

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Core Values

These are our 12 Core Values.

The Kid's First Train Ride and the Royal Gorge

Jonathan Bitz

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The Kid's First Train Ride and the Royal Gorge

When we discovered the notion of Creative Adventuring I was busy putting together lists of short trips I could do with the kids. But,...

Jonathan Bitz

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Bent's Fort

Not very far out from civilization on the eastern Colorado plains is Bent’s Fort, a replica of the original Bent’s Old Fort on the Santa...

Jonathan Bitz

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Silas at the Sand Creek Massacre

When it was agreed that my son would be named Silas, after a Colorado hero and legend, there was one obvious place that I knew I would...

Jonathan Bitz

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A Boy's First Flight

He said he was interested. So we made it happen. On an adventure during the Covid pandemic we stopped at an airfield one day and watched...

Jonathan Bitz

7 min read

Teach Your Children Well

The public school system is probably not enough to properly educate children. We need to parent. Parent hard. Creatively adventure.

Jonathan Bitz

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Jackson Creek

I’ll never forget that moment when I was standing at the kitchen sink, in a loveless marriage, with two toddlers and a newborn, thinking:...

Jonathan Bitz

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Exploration: Heals

Our exploratory circuits are as old as anything else in our brain. Exploring releases dopamines. It makes us feel good. And it heals.

Jonathan Bitz

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The Adjacent Possible

You'll be surprised if you let surprises happen.

Jonathan Bitz

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Sasquatch

We found Sasquatch. Kind of. It's more like Sasquatch found us. We've come to use this as an analogy for how we adventure.

Jonathan Bitz

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Sauntering

To saunter. To go on a desultory stroll. All this is to say is: go, but have no aim. Just go. With no rigid purpose.

Jonathan Bitz

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Creative Adventuring

Inside all of us is a wild thing. “Inside all of us is fear. Inside all of us is an adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.” — Where...

Jonathan Bitz

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What is Creative Adventuring?

It’s a mode of living as much as it a way to parent. Creative Adventuring is a general mode of living that I’ve adopted to become a...

OUR ADVENTURES AND PARADIGM

Creative Adventuring is a conscious parenting paradigm that the kids and I came up with. While not new to the world, we are enjoying our unique brand of unschooling and creative adventure as a general mode of living, a psychological state, a vehicle for education.

All concepts and writings are the sole cause of living with curiosity and exploration as our driving forces. Life and the kid's natural modes of cognition curated this concept of C.A. We live by it.

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