Do you know what Nature Mentoring is?

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Nature Mentoring is a really amazing way to enable young people to really deepen their connection to nature in a profound life-enhancing way. It’s a relationship that is built between young people and their experienced and passionate adult mentors who over time will skillfully work to bring out the unique passions and abilities of each […]

Live Wild 2017 Celebration and looking into 2018

Live Wild Here’s some of what we got up to in 2017! Wildlings Holiday Club. We successfully ran our amazing Wildings Holiday Club throughout every school holiday! ‘This was the best day ever!’ Noah aged 8. Adult Courses Our adult courses included Bushcraft, Foraging, Whittling and Nature Connection. So much fun was had eating foraged delights, cooking on the fire, connecting […]

Wildlings Easter Holiday Club

Great week at Wildlings Easter Holiday club. Lots of fun and exciting bushcraft adventures with amazing and creative young people. https://www.facebook.com/katherine.barton.169/posts/1269240163143749

Spring 2017 Woodland Women Day

Wow! What a fantastic day in great company with many creative and inspiring women.  We began the day check in with ourselves taking some time to connect with our bodies and internal experience.  A few of the days treats involved harvesting birch sap, whittled our own roasting skewers, learnt fire starting techniques  and made a […]

How can we inspire a culture of Nature Connection?

How can we inspire a culture of Nature Connection? that was the question posed at a gathering I attended in a swanky gallery in London last week. Not the usual setting for nature connection activities and not the usual people actually. There was a wonderfully diverse array of participants, ranging from bankers and business men […]

Thanks for joining our Sustainable Seasonal Celebration!

Thanks to everyone who came and supported our Sustainable Celebration.  We had a  really lovely festive morning, with music, fire, mulled apple juice, wood craft and lots of wonderful people!   Special thanks to  volunteers who gave their time to make it possible.

Final Day Wildlings Holiday Club Easter 2016

Our final day of Wildlings Easter Holiday Club was fun and busy! We sawed and split wood for the fire, played a blindfolded ‘meet your tree’ game and went on a foraging walk to collect edible plants. The children then learnt to use a kelly kettle to boil water and made teas from the foraged […]

Wild Valentine’s Day

Thanks to everyone for coming on our Wild Valentine’s Day.  Crisp Spring day and perfect for a fire and some smokey wild garlic chapatis. A unique Valentines adventure and a change from cards and chocolates these brave couples learnt some axe and whittling skills, foraged for their meal together and spent time connecting with the […]

November Skillshare 2015 Storytelling!

A fun and moving day with lots of creative and inspiring people! Thanks to everyone who came and those who prepared and shared. Skillshares are a great way for us to learn and grow as a community of outdoor leaders bringing our competence and diversity to the people we work with and deepening our own […]