Our Values
Educational and teaching project
of the Pied Vert mountain leaders
We, the mountain leaders of the Pied Vert collective, organise and lead mountain outings: half a day, a full day, or several days, in immersive form (with bivouac or as a stay) or as a series of sessions with returns home in between.
Our practice as nature educators and sports educators sits on a shared set of values. When we are leading a person or a group, we want to give them the desire to discover the outdoors while having fun, to help them know and understand how the living world works by sharing our naturalist knowledge and pointers to go further, and to give them the possibility of loving and respecting the living world and the great wild spaces.
Discover while having fun
Smell, touch, observe, experiment: actions that echo active, playful methods. These are the essential support of our outings. Let's give ourselves the chance to be amazed by the wild places around us. Nature is astonishing and its complexity is a kind of magic. Let's discover it step by step, while having fun.
In practice, our backpack always carries teaching materials to complement what we find in the field. A wolf outing becomes a sequence of playful moments to learn about its ecology.
Stay curious
Let's grow our curiosity, ask new questions, and try to answer them, little by little. Let's learn what is happening in the forest, on a mountainside, or inside a nature reserve. A bird flying over the ridges can open onto four thousand years of symbolism: naturalist curiosity and cultural curiosity go together.
In practice, every outing, even the most playful ones like our escape games, comes with bits of naturalist knowledge passed on to participants. Those small seeds will have a chance to sprout once people leave our playground.
Love and respect
Spending a good time in the mountains and learning how fragile these environments are: that is a real step towards love and respect for the living world. We invite our guests to realise that protecting nature can take many forms, well beyond national parks and reserves.
It is in our daily choices that we act best to reduce pressure on wild places. Our individual actions fit with administrative directives.
We don't forget the learning and discoveries each person can make on their own, even when we never planned them. Those moments are a full part of the richness of an outing in nature.
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