We are bright young Orthodox men, knowledge-omnivores from our earliest youth, offering tutoring in the classical style.

Our programs consist of 90-minute weekly sessions, with a moderate amount of assigned reading. The main focus is on the lecture and discussion. It's a classical model of education which was the norm for centuries prior to the advent of industrial school systems.

It is appropriate for a man in his 20s to teach a bright teenager. The age difference is close enough to facilitate mutual understanding, but broad enough to ensure that the older man has much to teach the younger. For most of our history, these relationships were a crucial facet of the educational ecology; but they have been lost in the age of School.

Oh, the inhumanity of the industrial school system! Could you even devise a better system for making the young demoralized and mediocre?

Homeschooling is quite good, but it too has its problems. There is a large burden on the parents. Generally the mother takes the lead in homeschooling, giving the learning environment a feminine character. Young men in particular benefit from engaging regularly with male mentors. Our sense is that small-group tutoring seminars can enable homeschooling families to get the best of both worlds.

Intellectual formation is also faith formation, since Orthodoxy is the truth. Many cradle Orthodox kids drift away in early adulthood, at least for a time. You have already given them a leg up by homeschooling them, so they will not be subject to excessive peer pressure from worldly peers.

We reckon being on deep intellectual terms with compelling young Orthodox mentors would be a boon to young people at a time when many of them begin to drift away from the faith.

We are converts. We have chosen the Church, for good reasons, which we are only too happy to share.

Our approach to education is wonder-based and relational. Our aim is to help teenagers generate an authentic, independent intellectual life. We will have succeeded if they are animatedly discoursing about ideas at the dinner table. If they're already that kind of kid, then they're already the perfect student for us. We were like that too, and this is the program we wish we'd had when we were younger.

Programs are all-inclusive, with all books and any necessary supplies shipped to your door.

Our approach to business is relational, especially within the Church. We are already brothers and sisters in Christ after all. Our desire is to cultivate a relationship with you and your family, not just your child. We look forward to meeting you!

I love to teach, it is my calling and my joy. I love to learn, and delight in sharing my learning.

I am interested in the big picture. The grand sweep of history, the lives and stories of great civilizations, the development of civilization and its relationship to wilderness, how Christ redeems both, the way we are changed by our tools, the fractal nature of the Church, the liturgical character of all life. And of course the Church as this totally otherworldly thing breaking in to our petty time, and the Cross as the centre of history.

My intention is to be not a neutral transmitter of ideas, but a true influence: a certain man with certain central themes, fixations, and convictions. Entering into intellectual mentorship with me, your son will reckon with my perspective on the world, which I have developed through study, experience, work, and conversion, during the 10 years since I was his age.

Through mentorship with me, my goal is to prepare your son to engage with large, complex books and ideas. Through this program, I will give him the tools to seek mentorship with any of the great minds of history. He will be better able to seek mentorship with C.S. Lewis, St. Basil, Cicero, Pascal, Florensky, or whomever else he should feel a kinship with. My goal is not primarily to fill his head with knowledge, but above all to help him to generate an original, independent intellectual life. This is the program I wish I'd had as a teenager.

I am an engaging communicator and compelling personality, deeply passionate about the Church and cultivating community. An aim of mine is to strengthen connections in the local network of Orthodox parishes.

These days I am reading and writing and working on a documentary film, as well as helping build a Byzantine stone chapel in the Kootenay wilderness of BC. This summer I am volunteering full-time on its construction. St. John in the Wilderness will one day be a regional centre of Orthodox education and intellectual life, hosting retreats and welcoming young people to read and write and learn traditional skills like gardening and building — a resource for the Orthodox network in the new world for generations to come.

By enrolling your child in the seminar, you are making two investments at once: an education for your teenager now, and support for a project of formation for the next generations — perhaps even your grandchildren. Who knows? Glory to God.

Hi, I'm Simon. I'm a newly received Orthodox Christian, and I'm determined to contribute my gifts and abilities to the Church, the body of Christ. I love deep conversations, reading, making music, and training martial arts.

Tradition is dynamic, living, and growing; it receives with reverence the richness of the past, from which it flowers into the future. I have been blessed to receive this richness, and am therefore obliged to pass it forward.

With a strong background in the sciences (having grown up as an academically-oriented "gifted kid" on the path to becoming a software developer), my conversion to Orthodoxy involved a dramatic paradigm shift in my relationship with technology, and a deep intellectual journey into the humanities. The most formative moments in this journey happened not within certified institutions, but through relationships, teaching, learning, and experience.

I have come to be fascinated by the dynamics that come about in relation: the relations between finite systems and infinite souls, the relations between the different disciplines as ways of apprehending the world, and the Incarnation as the ultimate relation.

My current fascination is the intersection between philosophy of technology, cultural theory/anthropology, and neuroscience (as discussed via thinkers including Iain McGilchrist, Byung-Chul Han, and Ernst Fritz Schumacher).

I am an attentive listener and a captivating speaker, able to understand both the unified whole and the details of its particulars.

Like Lucas, I am committed to the mission of the Church as it faces the future; I have also been volunteering full-time at St. John's this summer. I am blessed to engage my physical, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities in this project - to build, sing, read, write, and pray in the beauty of the Kootenay wilderness. Join us as we enter into a deeper mode of life!