Adult Courses Diary |
2025
April
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Nature Led Meditation Evening 1
Sold Out £25 Wednesday 30th April 2025 Next dates: Wednesday 4th June and Wednesday 2nd July 2025 |
Join us for the first in our series of very guided meditation evenings for 2025. Jonathon Huet will guide you gently through meditations and natural connection practices designed to restore your wellbeing and your connection with nature.
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may
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Forest School Leader Training (Level 3)
Module 4: Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th May 2025 Sold Out Places Available for 25/26 Cohort starting 12th November 2025 |
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.
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june
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Nature Led Meditation Evening 2
Places Available £25 Wednesday 4th June 2025 |
Find time to join us to relax and rebalance on this friendly summer evening meditation session. Jonathon Huet will guide you gently through meditations and natural connection practices designed to restore your wellbeing and your connection with nature.
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Kitchen Gardening
Sold Out £350 2nd weekend: 7th & 8th June 2025 |
A four day course, split over two weekends, 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.
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Woodland Management
Places Available £90 Saturday 14th June 2025 |
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.
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Medicinal Herb Workshop
(Summer) Sold Out £90 Saturday 28th June 2025 |
Summer Herb Workshop - Herb-infused oils, first aid balm and herbal infusions
Summer not only gifts us with longer, sunnier days but the hedgerows, fields, gardens, and green spaces offer up an abundance of wild medicinal flora and fauna. |
july
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Nature Led Meditation Evening 3
Places Available £25 Wednesday 2nd July 2025 |
Join us on the last of our very popular guided meditation evenings for 2025. Jonathon Huet will guide you gently through meditations and natural connection practices designed to restore your wellbeing and your connection with nature.
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Soundbath Evening
Sold Out Check out Creative Forest Bathing and Therapeutic Sound: Saturday 6th September 2025 £20 Wednesday 16th July 2025 |
Throughout this hour-long evening session therapeutic sound expert, Jez Smith, will help you explore the wide range of health benefits sound-bathing can promote. Help to boost your immune system by letting go of stress and finding a more relaxed, balanced and happy you.
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Wildflower Meadow Course
Places Available £90 Saturday 19th July 2025 |
This wildflower meadow course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to create, restore and enhance 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.
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august
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Shrink Pot Course
Places Available £130 Saturday 16th August 2025 |
Spend a summer's day in our beautiful Woodland Hall learning woodwork techniques to make your own shrink pot on this training course in the Hampshire South Downs. Our tutor, Chris Matthews, will teach you how to use traditional hand tools to carve your own pot from locally grown wood.
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Bushcraft Skills: One or Two Day
Places Available £90 - £160 Thursday 28th and/or Friday 29th August 2025 |
Join us to discover or refresh bushcraft skills with expert, Nick Ward. We offer two flexible days of training; choose any one day or come for a more immersive experience by booking both days and save £20. You can also save 10% on accommodation when you stay with in our campsite or eco lodge.
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September
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Creative Forest Bathing & Therapeutic Sound Day
Places Available £95 Saturday 6th September 2025 |
Why not try a new way to look after your wellbeing? Join us for a day of Forest Bathing, nature-based art and finishing with a deeply relaxing sound journey session all set in our beautiful woodlands within the South Downs National Park.
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Medicinal Herb Workshop
(Autumn) Sold Out £90 Saturday 13th September 2025 |
Autumn offers us the opportunity to be gathering in the hips, haws, berries and roots that adorn our hedgerows and greenspaces at this time of year. Gifts from nature that enable us to prepare remedies and tonics for the colder months ahead.
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october
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Rough Play in Natural World Settings with Jon Cree
Places Available £110 Saturday 11th October 2025 |
This CPD course is for Forest School and outdoor educators. Working with the nature play cycle, this course will explore the characteristics of
play and the value of conflict in play. Play, behaviour and consent are the broader themes. |
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Supporting Children through Anxiety and Trauma with Jon Cree
Places Available £110 Sunday 12th October 2025 |
This CPD training course shares knowledge and opens discussions about how outdoor learning practitioners and teachers can support children through times of anxiety and trauma. The course takes place in our beautiful woodland site in the Hampshire South Downs.
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Coppicing Course
Places Available £125 Thursday 16th or Friday 17th October 2025 |
This course will give you practical, hands on experience in the traditional art of coppicing. You will work on a section of hazel woodland here at the Sustainability Centre which is being coppiced as part of a wider woodland management plan to undertake conservation work on site.
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november
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Natural Cleaning Workshop
Places Available £100 Sunday 2nd November 2025 |
This workshop will teach you how to make a variety of tried and tested recipes to enable you to start making your own natural cleaning products from simple ingredients that can be found in your cupboards or easily and cheaply bought.
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Forest School Leader Training (Level 3)
Places Available £1180 - reserve a place for £200 Modular course starting: Wednesday 12th November 2025 |
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.
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Willow Forager's Backpack
2 day course Places Available £220 Thursday 20th & Friday 21st November 2025 |
Learn how to weave this stunning willow backpack on this friendly two day course with expert tutor, Amanda Rayner, who is a featured artisan in Kate Humble's book, Home Made. This course is run at our environmental education centre in the Hampshire South Downs.
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