CPD & Outdoor Learning Days
Circle of Life Rediscovery is passionate about training schools, organisations and education departments, in Outdoor Learning. All of our tutors have a background in education as well as knowledge about sustainable schools, nature connection, nature-centric models, the curriculum and the natural world.
We offer a range of bespoke trainings that will improve outdoor learning in your setting. We draw on best practice from around the world and offer a holistic approach.
We aim to enable practitioners to foster a more mature relationship with the natural world and leave you inspired with a bag full of practical and theoretical tools that link to an educational/learning based setting.
All trainings take place in our beautiful woodland in East Sussex.
Please see below for our 2018 CPD courses. You can find our terms and conditions for all courses listed below here.
If you are interested in Forest School Training Level 3 or Forest School First Aid, please click here.
Date: 19th - 21st November 2018
Lead Facilitator: Jon Cree
Where: Lewes New School, Lewes, East Sussex
Cost: £325 + £60 for Accreditation
Time: 09.00 - 17.00, please arrive by 08.50
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
This course is aimed at any educator who feels they want to engage and work with students in the outdoors who may be reluctant learners (of any age).
Aims of the course:
This course will delve into:
- What challenges us as leaders in the outdoors
- Theory on challenging behaviour
- Up-to-date neural research; triggers and causes for challenging behaviour
- Ways of dealing with 'real life' scenarios in the outdoors
- De-escalation
- How to transfer outdoor strategies into an indoor and other settings - including looking at the validity of sanctions and rewards.
- Reviewing your own policies
Day One, 9am - 5pm:
- Welcome, introductions and how we work together
- What is behaviour – our challenges
- Overview of course – Assessment criteria and learning journal
- 4 Theories of Behaviour, (behaviourism) Skinner and Bandura, (Psycotherapy) Vaillant and Freud, (humanism) Rogers (constructivism) Kohn, Glasser and Rosenburg
- Course expectations
- Magic Spot – qualities the outdoors brings to 'affecting behaviour'
- Fire
- Needs met and unmet by the outdoors for me and my clients
- Responding in the moment – the role of EI, Empathy and de-escalation
Day Two, 9am - 5pm:
- Personal ecology – how I see myself, how others see me
- Neural Development including the adolescent brain
- How the outdoors meets my needs and particularly working with groups and challenging behaviour in the outdoors – link to 'feelings'
- 'Reading' our learners
- Empathic language and communication
- The 'isms'
- Intervention strategies and de-escalation
- Participants Scenarios, Planning and simulation
Day Three, 9am - 4pm:
- Revisit scenarios and de-escalation
- The challenging behaviour First Aid Kit and Support Networks
- The whole cycle and how to work with each part of a behavioural cycle
- Review own Policies and Procedures
- Back to Assessment criteria, Personal Learning Journals, Paperwork for portfolios
- Review and Action plans
NATURAL MUSICANS WITH CHRIS HOLLAND
Date: 2nd February 2019
Lead Facilitator: Chris Holland
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Cost: £120.00
Time: 09.30 - 16.00
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
This is a training day for those who would like to become kitted up with loads of activities for delivering the Music Curriculum outdoors through Nature Connection activities.
This is Nature interpretation with bells, didgeridoos, guitars and whistles! Discover and learn to share the harmony, literacy, numeracy and science of Nature through fun activities. Make a guiro and a shekere to take home. Suitable for beginners, Forest School leaders, Teaching Assistants, and adept music and class teachers alike.
Chris is a leading inspiration in the field of nature connection and environmental education for families and schools in the UK and increasingly worldwide. He has many things in his teaching bundle including a degree in environmental science and a natural talent for working with groups of people, telling stories, sharing bushcraft skills, foraging, creating environmental art and playing the didgeridoo too. He wrote his first book, “I Love my World”, in 2009 and launched an "inspirational" Storytelling for Outdoor Learning course online in 2017. He lives in Devon and loves swimming, surfing and climbing trees barefoot. Chris is founder of Wholeland, and all of his free resources are available at https://www.natureconnection.co.uk/
FIRE & WINTER TREE ID - FOREST SCHOOL REFRESHER
Date: 9th February 2019
Lead Facilitator: Anna Richardson & Mark Lloyd
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Cost: £75.00
Time: 09.30 - 15.30
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
Refresh your Forest School skills! This day is for Forest School leaders, beginners and experts. On this day we will look at the basics of lighting and maintaining fire, both modern and ancient. This will be especially beneficial for Forest School practitioners. We will explore natural and man made tinders, different woods and how they burn, fire lays and how to minimise smoke.
Plus, improve your confidence and identification skills, how to ID native trees and wild plants in the woods and gain valuable insight into their practical uses.
EXPLORING THE NATURAL WORLD & THE FEELING SELF WITH IAN SIDDONS HEGINWORTH (TWO DAY TRAINING)
Date: 21st & 22nd March 2019
Lead Facilitator: Ian Siddons Heginworth
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Cost: £175.00
Time: 09.30 - 17.00
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
NATURE PLAY & THE THERAPEUTIC SPACE (TWO DAY TRAINING)
Date: 1st & 2nd April 2019
Lead Facilitators: Marina Robb & Kate Macairt
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Cost: £175.00
Time: 09.30 - 15.30
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
An Experiential training for health and education practitioners wanting to work in 'Green Spaces' and will include:
- Therapeutic nature play
- The Forest School Continuum
- Exploring vulnerable and challenging needs
- How to hold a safe space
- Managing difficult behaviours
- Play ideas with use of ropes & swings
- Key communication strategies
- Increase the tool kit to include more outdoor games and skills
- Develop understanding of Attachment Theory and how it relates to emotional insecurity
- Play skills include sand, puppet and music.
Click here to see full details about this two day course.
NATURE PEDAGOGY AND GAMES FOR LEARNING
Date: 27th April 2019
Lead Facilitators: Marina Robb
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Cost: £95.00
Time: 09.30 - 15.30.
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
Full details to follow.
FORAGING & PLANTS
Date: 25th May 2019
Lead Facilitators: Anna Richardson
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Cost: £95.00
Time: 09.30 - 15.30.
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
Details coming soon.
EXPLORING THE NATURAL WORLD & THE FEELING SELF WITH IAN SIDDONS HEGINWORTH (TWO DAY TRAINING)
Date: 23rd & 24th September 2019
Lead Facilitator: Ian Siddons Heginworth
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Time: 09.30 - 17.00
Cost: £175.00
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
This training will apply the therapeutic use of natural materials, natural locations, natural themes and natural cycles. The theme is 'Suffocating Ivy.' Ian is a leading practitioner, innovator and teacher of environmental arts therapy, a practical ecopsychologist, Author of 'Environmental Arts Therapy and the Tree of Life'. Please see his website for more information.
TOOLS & ROPES - FOREST SCHOOL SKILLS SESSION
Date: 19th October 2019
Lead Facilitators: Mark Lloyd
Where: Mill Woods, East Sussex
Cost: £95.00
Time: 09.30 - 15.30
Booking: Please CLICK HERE to complete our online booking form where you will also find payment details.
Details coming soon.
Harriet@circleofliferediscovery.com
01273 814226 / 07966 514469
What is Outdoor Education?
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Learning outside the classroom
Heather Hadley, CPD participant, 2018.
"I have been through a range of emotions from tears to sheer joy! I thank you from the bottom of my heart. The training has made me take a step back and look at how we can support children in their development rather than specific knowledge. I have loved every minute and feel totally inspired. "
Sarah, Forest School Training Ireland, 2017.
Thank you so much for a fantastic day in the woods on Friday - I loved it! The course was the perfect mixture of practical and theoretical (and also a little bit magical too!). I loved thinking of plants in terms of directions and times of life."
Lucy Collins - Founder, Bee in the Woods, 2016
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