About Wilde School Blue Mountains

We develop strong, self-aware, confident & compassionate leaders.

The current antiquated education system, designed for the control of large groups, is failing our youth.

This has become painfully evident to many of us in these recent times. The world is changing rapidly and yet the education model has altered little since the onset of the industrial revolution. Our youth are over programmed, over stimulated and yet underwhelmed in the boxes that they are tethered to for most of their developmental years.

We’re developing self-aware, confident and compassionate leaders who will affect great change in their life times.

Optimizing Conditions for Children to Thrive

Learning is more than good teaching. It emerges from a healthy ecosystem. Permacognitive Education draws insights from developmental neuroscience, psychology, ecology, systems thinking, outdoor education, and decades of educational research to intentionally design every aspect of that ecosystem: from relationships and culture to curriculum, challenge, movement, reflection, and the physical environment.

Grounded in the research of Human Ecology, we believe that just as healthy ecosystems can be intentionally designed to support life, learning ecosystems can be intentionally designed to support human flourishing.

Design Framework
Permacognitive Education is more than a philosophy, it’s a practical design framework. Like permaculture, meaningful design begins with careful observation.
Unique Application
Every learner, every community, and every place is unique.
Ongoing Process
Rather than applying one-size-fits-all solutions, we continually observe, design, implement, and adapt to create the best possible conditions for learning.

We are a Not-for-Profit, Registered Private School

Wilde School Blue Mountains is a not-for-profit organization and a registered Private School near the Blue Mountains and Collingwood areas of the Georgian Triangle in Bruce Simcoe Grey.

We operate with a simple mandate to reconnect our future leaders with the natural world and with themselves.

WILDE School Blue Mountains stands as a proud extension of Canadian WILDE Schools, a nationally registered not-for-profit organization. Our overarching mission is to seamlessly reconnect students with the beauty of the natural world and, in turn, with their true selves.