Description
Event: Introduction to learning the landscape & thriving in nature
Location: Keele, Staffordshire
Date: Saturday 21st September 2024
Duration: Approximately 3-3.5 hours
Time: Starts at 11am
Dip your toe into the fascinating natural world that surrounds us…
Our main aim is to help you see nature from a new perspective and to encourage people to spend more time outdoors. This is an educational course aimed at cultivating awareness, understanding, respect, and confidence in the outdoor environment.
We’ll be learning skills that can be used and useful in daily life too, like reading water, the weather, navigating without maps, water safety, resilience, confidence, and the law of the land.
These skills will help you prepare for family walks in the countryside and weekend camping trips as much as they will come in handy to those who prefer something wilder.
You’ll gain insight into:
- Equipping and preparing yourself for time outdoors
- Staying safe and comfortable & what to do if something goes wrong
- How to become more resilient and confident in nature
- Cold water – how to read it and stay safe while around it, in it, and when using it
- Cold weather – how to prepare for it
- Natural navigation
- Reading the weather
- Identification of and foraging for edible and useful plants and trees (educational, no harvesting)
- Considerations when choosing a camping spot
- The law/bylaws surrounding land access, foraging, fires, wild camping, and knives
- Engaging with nature and becoming aware of and familiar with the outdoors
- Conservation, sustainability, and ethics in the outdoor environment
- Being mindful in nature – a short woodland bathing experience
- You will also receive several guides after the course including a foraging handbook and introduction to nature immersion handbook
Although aimed at interested beginners, the course may also offer interest to those with more experience of the outdoors. It would be a great complimentary experience for those who have attended my foraging walks, green laning trips, or other events.
We’ll be outside for the whole event whatever the weather, but we will not be walking constantly. We will be stopping often for learning sessions and for lunch (please bring a packed lunch and take all litter with you). The event is suitable for people of average mobility and fitness.
Children are welcome, but the course content is likely to be more suitable for older children (10+) and adults. Unfortunately, for practical reasons and the comfort of all attendees, this session is not suitable for dogs as much as I’d love to meet your furry friends!
The course is run by a qualified and insured nature therapist, bushcraft and foraging teacher, woodland bathing instructor, cold water therapist, herbalist, and tour guide who has a current outdoor first aid qualification.
Your guide has lived outdoors for months on end on solo trips in various countries and written for several industry magazines on the subject as well as writing papers for national organisations about the health benefits of spending time in nature. You’re in good hands!
Exact meeting location will be sent to you on booking. Attendee numbers are limited and pre-booking is essential.
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