LifeTides Institute offers adventure learning programs, and a continuing education environment for adults and youth. We are big advocates of learning through activity and experience. Participants from around the United States and abroad visit the Lowcountry for educational opportunities not found anywhere else. LifeTides Institute serves as the host for the Road Scholar Program (see below); it provides outstanding, yet affordable accommodations, including pre- and post-course stays in a beautiful coastal marsh setting.
Continuing Education through the Road Scholar program
LifeTides Institute offers adult education programs in partnership with the Road Scholar Program. Our operations are generally limited to a limited number of attendees, and pride ourselves in the boutique nature of our class sizes, the quality and experience of our instructors, the beauty and serenity of the South Carolina Lowcountry, and the quality of our accommodations and food for our participants. Programs are held in the Spring and Fall of each year. You can explore each of our current programs through the Road Scholar website by following the links below:
Kids in the Lowcountry region learn to make connections using nature as a teacher, and learn to be better stewards and future leaders of their own backyards.
Many of the youth of this region are increasingly disconnected from their own backyards - sequestered in schools that can feel restraining. LifeTides strives to get many of these children outdoors and in their own natural surroundings so that they can come to really know a place. And once they truly know about these currently unspoiled areas— and their own personal relationship to them- then this provides the foundation for stronger caring and stewardship for this region’s future. Recent research shows that learning outdoors improves cognitive skills and brain development, especially among younger children.