Courses Update

We are running small group courses in person (with a maximum of 5 participants with 1 tutor) from April 2021, with larger group courses running again from around mid-May.

​Our courses are operating within Government guidelines at all times. Our courses team will be ensuring everything is safe and COVID secure for all of our visitors, course attendees and tutors.


​Cancelled Courses

If your course has was cancelled during the COVID shutdown then please tell us your preferred option by completing the booking form below.


​Adult Courses

Our courses and workshops in green living, rural skills and bushcraft take place in our beautiful learning Centre in the Hampshire South Downs, near Petersfield. We are proud to host a range of excellent tutors, including renowned permaculture teachers: Aranya and Caroline Aitken; Forest School pioneer, Jon Cree; bushcraft and nature connection leaders: Jonathon Huet and Nick Ward; herb and foraging experts and a host of highly skilled craft teachers. ​

As well as our Course Listings below, we also offer private bespoke courses for your adult family group or organisation.  Please contact us on courses@sustainability-centre.org for more information.

2021

May

Forest School Taster Day
£55
​Saturday 15th May 2021
​10:00 - 15:00
​Tutor: Polly Whyte

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This course will go ahead with a maximum of 5 participants with 1 tutor.
An experience day for teachers and parents to give a taste of the Forest School approach to learning. Have a go at fire lighting, den building, tool use, plus other woodland crafts and activities. Find out how Forest School supports children and adults of all abilities to learn in the outdoors. 
Nature Led Meditation
£25 
Wednesday 19th May 2021
​18:00 - 20:00
Tutor: Jonathon Huet
A progressive series of nature-led meditation evening workshops. Jonathon will guide you gently through meditations and natural connection practices designed to restore your connection with nature and to bring healing to yourself and to the land to which we belong. Take some time in our peaceful woods to find calmness.
Medicinal Herb Workshop
£25
Thursday 20th May 2021
18:00 - 20:30
​Sarah Hillyer
​Nature's pharmacy to help our health and wellbeing. You will learn how to use all your senses to correctly identify the plants and how to use these powerful remedies by making herbal teas and your own herbal tincture to start your own family medicine chest. 
Foraging, Fire & Folklore
£25 
Wednesday 26th May 2021
​18:00 - 20:00
Tutor: Jonathon Huet
A series of seasonal events, each one a special evening experience of wild food foraging, Celtic fire and folklore.  Jonathon will take you on a guided walk to forage for wild food and impart his knowledge on different native trees in each season.

June

Kitchen Gardening Weekend
£135
Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th June 2021
09:30 - 17:30
​Caroline Aitken
​​A seasonal weekend course on creating and managing a successful and abundant food garden. The course will include hands-on practical sessions and all the theory you need to make your kitchen garden grow and keep your larder full. 
Foraging, Fire & Folklore
£25 
Wednesday 23rd June 2021
​18:00 - 20:00
Tutor: Jonathon Huet
A series of seasonal events, each one a special evening experience of wild food foraging, Celtic fire and folklore.  Jonathon will take you on a guided walk to forage for wild food and impart his knowledge on different native trees in each season.
Wildflower Meadows 
£75
Saturday 26th June 2021
10:00 - 16:00
​Rachael Mairey
​This course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to create, restore and enhance wildflower meadows, with a particular focus on chalk grassland. Whether you want to establish a mini meadow in your back garden or on a large scale, this course is for you. 
Medicinal Herb Workshop
£25
Wednesday 30th June 2021
18:00 - 20:30
​Sarah Hillyer
​Nature's pharmacy to help our health and wellbeing. You will learn how to use all your senses to correctly identify the plants and how to use these powerful remedies by making herbal teas and your own herbal tincture to start your own family medicine chest. 

July

Nature Led Meditation
£25 
Wednesday 7th July 2021
​18:00 - 20:00
Tutor: Jonathon Huet
A progressive series of nature-led meditation evening workshops. Jonathon will guide you gently through meditations and natural connection practices designed to restore your connection with nature and to bring healing to yourself and to the land to which we belong. Take some time in our peaceful woods to find calmness.
Clay Oven
£105
​Saturday 10th July 2021
​09:30 - 16:00
Tutor: Sara Collins
Hot drinks included
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Learn the techniques to build a clay oven at our beautiful site in the Hampshire South Downs. Participants will learn how to construct the oven from builder’s sand, clay, wood shavings and bricks. The course includes a sandwich lunch. 
Natural Wellbeing ​
£75
Sunday 18th July 2021
10:00 - 17:00
​Sarah Hillyer & Suzanne Burnett  
​A health and wellbeing workshop focused on herbal medicine and awareness.  This powerful one day course will engage us with the techniques needed to build resilience using only natural and intuitive processes; offering ideas, knowledge and tools we can use to strengthen and bring resilience and wellbeing into everyday life.  ​
Spoon Carving
£70
​Saturday 24th July 2021
​10:00 - 16:00
Tutor: Jonathan Huet
Hot drinks included
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Learn how to carve a spoon, spatula and butter knife on this wood carving course in the Hampshire South Downs. Our tutor, Jonathan Huet, will teach you how to use a knife, saw, crook knife and axe to whittle items from locally harvested green wood.
Mental Health
​First Aid ​
£225
Wednesday 28th - Thursday 29th July 2021
09:00 - 17:00
​Ali Johnson  
​Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course which teaches people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. MHFA won’t teach you to be a therapist, but just like physical first aid, it will teach you to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis. ​

August

Woodland Management for Forest School Leaders
£75
​Saturday 7th August 2021
10:00 - 17:00
Tutor: Nick Ward
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A one day Woodland Management course for those working and educating in the forest.  From woodland ecology and basic site surveying, to trees, woodlands, wildlife and the law, this course will give outdoor educators a sound knowledge of their environment and how to maximise its potential, whilst maintaining a minimal impact approach.
Medicinal Herb Workshop
£25
Wednesday 18th August 2021
18:00 - 20:30
​Sarah Hillyer
​Nature's pharmacy to help our health and wellbeing. You will learn how to use all your senses to correctly identify the plants and how to use these powerful remedies by making herbal teas and your own herbal tincture to start your own family medicine chest. 

September

Foraging, Fire & Folklore
£25 
Wednesday 1st September 2021
​18:00 - 20:00
Tutor: Jonathon Huet
A series of seasonal events, each one a special evening experience of wild food foraging, Celtic fire and folklore.  Jonathon will take you on a guided walk to forage for wild food and impart his knowledge on different native trees in each season.
Willow Bird Feeders
£35 
Thursday 2nd September 2021
​10:00 - 13:00
Tutor: Louise Arthur
Do you like to help our native wildlife? Create naturally stylish, biodegradable feeders to hang in the garden for feeding wild birds. Using UK grown willow, you will weave at least two different designs feeders.
Willow Bowls and Platters
£35 
Thursday 2nd September 2021
​14:00 - 17:00
Tutor: Louise Arthur
Spend a few hours learning new skills with sustainably grown UK willow. We will start with tension trays or 'platters' used to present bread, cheese or baked goods. You will then create another with added curve to use as a fruit or egg bowl. 
Clay Oven
£105
​Saturday 11th September 2021
​09:30 - 16:00
Tutor: Sara Collins
Hot drinks included
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Learn the techniques to build a clay oven at our beautiful site in the Hampshire South Downs. Participants will learn how to construct the oven from builder’s sand, clay, wood shavings and bricks. The course includes a sandwich lunch. 
Natural Wellbeing ​
£75
Saturday 18th September 2021
10:00 - 17:00
​Sarah Hillyer & Suzanne Burnett  
​A health and wellbeing workshop focused on herbal medicine and awareness.  This powerful one day course will engage us with the techniques needed to build resilience using only natural and intuitive processes; offering ideas, knowledge and tools we can use to strengthen and bring resilience and wellbeing into everyday life.  ​
Art, Sound and Meditation ​
£75
Sunday 26th September 2021
10:00 - 16:00
​Janet Hammerton,  Jonathon Huet & Sam Britton
A workshop focused on the healing properties of sounds and pattern and the restorative qualities of the natural world. Spend a day focusing on your own wellbeing. We will explore the way experiencing sound and nature can spark our creative responses. ​

October

Introduction to Permaculture Design
£320
Reserve a place  
£75
Thursday 7th to Sunday 10th October 2021
09:30 - 17:30
​Aranya
​This course cover the key principles of Permaculture design theory and how we can apply them in redesigning our homes and gardens to be both more sustainable and abundant. 
Willow Frame Basket​
​£80
Thursday 28th October 2021
10:00 - 17:00
​Tutor: Louise Arthur
​Willow weaving training course in the Hampshire South Downs. Participants will make a hand woven gypsy style frame basket from sustainable locally grown willow. Use your basket for gathering berries, mushrooms, eggs, herbs or displaying treasures.
Climbing Frames, Ropes and Ladders​
​£95
Saturday 30th October 2021
09:00 - 17:00
​Tutor: Jon Cree
​This course is for educators wishing to be a little more adventurous with creative play structures at their sites, building them out of wood and rope and combining these with the natural features at your site. ​
Lost Words
​£75
Sunday 31st October 2021
09:00 - 16:00
​Tutor: Jon Cree
​This day course explores nature through the curriculum using literacy, art and pictures. Participants will discover the natural world through sensory observation, sketching and wordsmithing.

november

Coppicing 
£75
Friday 5th November 2021
09:30 - 16:30
​Les & Toni Brannon
​​This course will give you practical, hands on experience in the traditional art of coppicing.  You will work on a section of hazel woodland which is being coppiced as part of a wider woodland management plan to undertake conservation work on site.
Unwind in the Woods 
£75
Saturday 6th November 2021
10:00 - 16:00
​Jonathon Huet
​​Combining meditation and an introduction to basic whittling techniques, this workshop will give you the time and space to get away from a hectic everyday life and connect with nature.
Forest School Leader Training 
£1,170
Starts Tue 16th Nov 2021
09:00 - 17:00
​Adrian Goodhand
​​This training course is essential for anyone wishing to lead Forest School programmes in their own setting. It covers learning theory and practical skills, plus gives participants the confidence and knowledge needed to establish and deliver their own Forest School programmes.
Natural Cosmetics Workshop 
£75 
Saturday 20th and/or Sunday 21st November 2021
10:00 - 16:00
​Dee Dade
​​Learn how to make natural everyday beauty/bathroom products from ingredients you can find in your kitchen cupboards, herb gardens and amongst the hedgerows. We will be making a variety of products including balms, oils, hair conditioner and toothpaste. 
Hedgelaying 
£80
Friday 26th November 2021
09:30 - 17:00
​Les & Toni Brannon
​​Gain practical, hands on experience in the ancient art of hedgelaying (South of England style).  A local hedge will be laid using traditional tools i.e. billhook, broad axe and hand saws.