2nd and 3rd-Year Tuition for 2024–2025: $1,300
Location: 122 Daley Rd., East Chatham, NY
2024–2025 Dates: View and download the schedule.
Are you a Luna Moth Auntie? Find out more about your role and schedule here.
Please note that registration for this program is by invitation only, with attendance at an info session required. The program fills early; it’s best to reach out the year prior. Contact us to find out more.
Luna Moth is a long-term coming-of-age program for girls, beginning at ages 12 to 14 and continuing over two and a half years. Now in its 20th year, this program has been a rich, fun, and life-changing experience for many girls and women.
Luna Moth is designed to support girls as they move through early adolescence, learning about themselves and the world and discerning their identities as young women. The program weaves community and consciousness around potent issues for growing girls and nurtures each girl’s innate strength in herself and in her relationships with the earth, her peers, women mentors, and the circle of mothers. Fathers and families are woven into the experience as well.
“When I started the program, I felt like I was a different person everywhere I went—at home, at school, and with friends. I always liked the person I was at Flying Deer best, and now I feel like that’s who I am all the time!”
—Luna Moth graduate
Goals of the Program
Nature Connection
Learning more about the land we call home and its inhabitants; learning some tree, plant, and animal species; gaining comfort being in the outdoors throughout the year and spending the night outside with little barrier from the natural world.
Wilderness Survival Skills
Learning how to thrive in nature through shelter building, fire making, using wild edible and medicinal plants, and more.
Self-Discovery
Learning about personal gifts and challenges and having opportunities to experience one’s own strength and power. Girls will be amazed at what they can do themselves, and will have ongoing opportunities to identify skills.
Personal Voice
Learning about personal intuition and voice, and strengthening the ability to speak one’s thoughts and feelings. Girls practice Nonviolent Communication techniques in order to be able to work together well in challenging moments.
Sisterhood
Developing a powerful sisterhood and discovering the gifts of working together to face group challenges.
Mother-Daughter Fun
Finding support for the mother-daughter relationship in a fun and loving community during years of change and growth.
Connection with Mentors and Aunties
Being welcomed, held, and guided by a circle of strong women, who create a safe and supportive environment in which to explore feminine gifts and mysteries.
“I can’t promote this program enough, truly. It is a big commitment, but it will serve them well for the rest of their lives. Our daughter was enriched by this program in countless ways. Her courageous and self-motivated decision to go live in China for six months, her incredible emotional maturity in facing our family challenges, and her deep and abiding love of nature, all have roots that were deeply established in her three years of experiences in the program.”
—Luna Moth parent