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A Great CPD Opportunity for Outdoor Professionals, Teachers, Youth Workers and Anyone With A General Interest In The Outdoors
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Improvising - Nigel Vardy
A workshop on Improvisation skills. This follows on from my storytelling workshop at the Festival a couple of years ago and can be used where a group needs some evening entertainment/distractions and warming up before or after a session.
There are no barriers to improvisation and the only failure is the failure to take part. This fully activity based workshop requires no props or kit, just you and the desire to have fun! This will be no holes barred, full contact imporv!
www.mrfrostbite.com
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Values & Wild Nature - Colin Mortlock
Colin Mortlock in his younger days was an acclaimed adventurer - climber, kayakist and expeditioner. A natural progression took him from teaching (at Manchester Grammar School) to running Woodlands the City of Oxford Outdoor Centre in South Wales. After 6 years he moved to Ambleside to be Director of Adventure Education at the College (part of Lanc. Univ.) for 20 years.
Early retirement allowed the next 10 years lifestyle to be solo expeditions in big mountains and along wilderness coastlines. Since 2003 he has committed himself to the Spirit of Adventure Foundation - a global movement to inspire societies to live in harmony with Nature.
He is an international speaker on values & wild nature and the author of several books (incl. the classic The Adventure Alternative) visit his website to discover more about his current project
www.spiritofadventure.org
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Outdoor Learning & The National Curriculum - Glen Probert
Glen will look at current primary school education content and delivery, with a focus on the current national curriculum. This is then tied together with the potential benefits of outdoor learning, to make a usable link between the two and provide some hints and tips to help peoples practice. Concluding with a discussion on the upcoming changes and challenges to this system, and our part in the future of curriculum learning.
Glen is the assistant centre manager at Shugborough OEC where he's employed as a teacher. Glen previously taught Years 5 & 6 at a Primary School, and has a PGCE in Primary Education with QTS. He holds a degree in Outdoor Leadership, and as well as the usual outdoor qualifications Glen holds an APIOL qualification and working towards his LPIOL
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Teamwork Coach - Dave Baines & Harvey Downey
Harvey & Dave will be providing an experiential workshop of ice-breakers, problem solving & thought provoking tasks. Their focus is on
the team development process & the role of the facilitator in coaching teams to take control of their own destiny & development. Following the style of their workshops from previous years, always popular & well received.
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Communicating ideas about Geology and the Earth - Paul Gannon
Geology and earth sciences are traditionally seen as 'difficult' subjects to communicate to the general public. This workshop aims to explain basic concepts about the Earth and how they affect the landscape. The examples will be drawn from the area around Cave Dale and Mam Tor. It will involve a field trip if the weather permits.
Paul is a science and technology writer and author of the 'Rock Trails' series of geology guidebooks.
www.paulgannonbooks.co.uk
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Positive Psychology - Kate O'Brien
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning. It focuses on the positive aspects of human life and aims to discover the qualities that enable people to thrive. This workshop will look at how some of the key concepts fit within outdoor learning. We will also look at the practical application of the theory, considering how positive psychology interventions can be used successfully within outdoor development programmes.
Kate O'Brien - Has worked at various centres in the UK and abroad, as well as doing other youth development work. She currently works for the Outward Bound Trust providing personal development courses predominantly for young people aged 10-18.
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Gang Culture - Julia Wolton
Julia suggests a longer title of "Supporting communities and young people to coproduce their own local solutions to anti-social behaviour and gang affiliation" - It's a bit long but describes what I am up to!
Julia is currently working with young offenders and just waiting to start a gang intervention programme for Waltham Forest - which is an off the wall model which I designed and beat all the major charities in a tendering process because of it's innovative approach - So I have loads to talk about..
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Dark Skies - Dan Hillier
Dan works at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh and has been closely involved in the Dark Skies project in Scotland; he is now being instrumental in the extension of this project throughout the UK
In this workshop he will :-
- Extend and enhance you knowledge of the night sky
- Give you free tools to help you (and the groups you work with) understand what you are looking at
- Introduce you to the latest web based resources
- Look at ways of developing a sense of scale & perspective
- Look at current technology
- Provide straightforward information cards for groups of all ages
Dark Skies Scotland
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Feather Sticks, Flowers & Whistles - Dave Watson
This session takes a look at gaining confidence / additional competence in using your knife to fashion a variety of simple products. We will start with a basic feather-stick for efficient fire starting but will progress to the making of some wooden flowers/shuttle darts. In addition we will look at making some quality whistles and how to whittle some fancy patterns on them.
www.woodlandsurvivalcrafts.com
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Open Fire Cooking - Frag Last
Fire and cooking have been essential throughout our evolutionary past. In recent times - cooking with fire is often reduced to simply 'toasting marshmallows'! There are many more exciting possibilities to be explored! This workshop will focus on various techniques of cooking with an open fire. We'll examine different types of fire, fuel types and of course recipes that are useful for personal creation and group experimentation. Feel free to bring along any ideas or ingredients.
A mostly practical session where you'll get to eat and share all of your results!
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A Practical Approach to Programme Planning - Sam Moore, Totem
Designing programmes and courses can sometimes feel like a jigsaw puzzle. Take the activities you run and slot them into the time you have available and allocate the staff you have to run them.
This workshop aims to offer a more proactive approach to programme design, putting the desired learning and development at the core of the experience. By separating the design process out into a number of discreet steps, we can aim to ensure that practicalities and logistics don't get in the way of producing learning experiences.
If possible, you should come to the workshop with a programme you need to create, or one you'd like to refresh, in mind as we will practice applying the steps of the design process. If you haven't got one, don't worry, you can help someone else with theirs!
www.totemdevelopment.co.uk
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Creativity In Outdoor Learning - Bill Krouwel
What is outdoor learning? Is it about developing skills? Is it about producing compliant citizens? Is it, perhaps, about helping people to release their real potential?
Bill Krouwel is a keen supporter of the last of these three and has spent a thirty-year career trying to help people develop through interaction with the outdoors. In his career Bill has found that personal development can be helped by mixing the outdoors with other experiential media, ranging from the arts to woodcraft; sometimes the most unlikely things act as triggers for development.
In his interactive and thought-provoking session he
- Shares some of the ideas and experiences that have led / fed his beliefs
- Offers some of the activities with which he balances his outdoor programmes
www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk
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Darwin's Thinking Walks, Connecting Nature with knowledge - Caroline Carr
Using the environment to connect with nature through exploring, playing and creating using the natural playground. Stimuli for enquiry based learning along with practical games and activities to engage young people with the outdoors whilst developing knowledge and understanding about our natural world.
Links to how we can find out more about what's happening to our natural world through using OPAL Surveys to record changes in our environment. This workshop will take us on a journey that looks at questions and answers through rediscovering our childhood play.
Caroline is a qualified teacher and outdoor educator with a degree in Environmental Science & Outdoor Studies. She currently runs Outdoor Learning Consultancy and provides outdoor and environmental training, conferences and workshops for teachers and outdoor professionals across the country.
Caroline's facebook page
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Healing Ourselves and Others in the Forest - David & Tracy Steare
In this workshop there'll be useful approaches, methods and techniques for our own well-being and for us to use with others. We are particularly interested in the needs of people with learning disabilities, autism and ADHD.
Urban environments offer many distractions to our primary life task: discovering and becoming true to who we are meant to be. Most of us live and learn or work within organisations whose tasks seem at odds with our own development. Social structures can harm as well as aid our well-being. We can harm as well as aid our own well-being and the well-being of others.
In this workshop participants will be invited to reflect upon experiences of alienation from the grounds of our being, both practically and metaphorically through activities and games. We will then offer time and support to plan a re-focusing of our own coping and the coping of others.
Tracy Steare works in the outdoors for an outdoor activities company and in schools for a national children's charity. Tracy is also a trained counsellor and forest school instructor. David Steare is semi-retired and works p/t as a social worker within the NHS. David also served in the Royal Navy and is trained in family therapy.
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Social Enterprise & Paddle Boarding - Chris Saunders
Chris has been involved in outdoor education, youth work and community development for twenty years. Based in Girvan southwest Scotland I have developed and managed the Adventure Centre for Education (ACE) a community based outdoor education charity come social enterprise. ACE aims to provide outdoor opportunities for all while creating health, wellbeing and economic development to the area. The past seven years has seen our service expand across Ayrshire. Developing local people's skills we have expanded our pool of instructors and are making moves into the activity tourism market.
This supports our sustainability. Introducing new sports to the area has seen ACE introduce stand up paddle boarding (SUP), being a level three stand up paddle board coach my workshop will introduce you to the sport and its many disciplines. You'll learn the basics and hopefully you'll be standing up and paddling your board. Come prepared to get wet if you fancy having a go!
www.adventurecentreforeducation.com
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Earth Education, Van Matre & Earth Keepers - Sarah Wilks
more details to follow very soon
Sarah Wilks, Peak District National Park
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Tools and Cordage - Ian Cresswell
Ian Cresswell, founder of Lonescout Bushcraft, has been connected with the outdoors for over 40 years. In this workshop he will share his skills and knowledge of two particular facets of bushcraft.
- Tool selection, care, maintenance and use
- Cordage - making use of natural fibres
Both of these will be practical with opportunities to try things out or hone your skills (and maybe your own tools, please feel free to bring them along). Sourcing natural materials will be discussed and you can even make some cord to take away with you.
www.lonescoutbushcraft.co.uk
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Creative Reviewing in the Outdoors - Mandy Sims
Reviewing is all about learning from an experience. Without it, it can be difficult to make the most of a learning opportunity. Reviewing can benefit you or your client group, or both, and having some interesting and engaging reviewing techniques up your sleeve can make all the difference.
This workshop will be very practical and should be a lot of fun! The best reviewing activities make it easy for people to engage, contribute, reflect on any learning and give their real opinions. We will be trialling lots of different reviewing techniques, looking at what will work well in your situation and with your 'clients', whether children, young people or adults.
mandysims.com
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3 Circular Maps - Chris Holland
Map making and sharing information is an instinctive human trait. This characteristic helps us find a sense of place and direction in the physical world and the cycles of our lives. Chris shares three different types of highly practical yet playful map making activites, illuminating for all ages of learners, which develop a sense of place in the world:
- One for sharing information about a place and it's resources.
- One for helping people share secret locations and find stillness.
- One for maping the directions, the seasons, life-cycles and a flow learning cycle all in one.
Chris Holland is an inspiration in the field of nature connection for families and schools in the UK and increasingly worldwide. He is an author and award winning photographer too. He has many things in his teaching bundle including a degree in environmental science and a talent for working with groups of people, telling stories, sharing bushcraft skills, foraging, creating environmental art and playing the didgeridoo. He wrote his first book, I love my World - the 'must have' playful, hands-on nature connection guidebook, in 2009. He also loves swimming long distances and kayak surfing in the sea.
www.wholeland.org.uk
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Environmental Learning - Jim Langley
My workshop this year is on the use of the Environmental Learning Cards produced by the Outdoor Education Advisors Panel. They have been designed to give staff and young people an introduction to the Discovering, Exploring, Sharing and Sustaining the Natural Environment. The Cards offer a range of activities that are of great value in themselves, but also provide the opportunity to support and add value to on-going programmes of learning.
The Environmental Cards will support learning across the whole curriculum, encourage working together, promote positive attitudes to the natural environment and an understanding of a young person's place within it. All the activities can be delivered in school or centre grounds, parks, nature reserves or other suitable open spaces, requiring no specialist facilities.
Jim Langley Nature's Work
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Learning Away - provider tbc
'Learning Away' - The Paul Hamlyn Foundation residentials initiative - initial findings from the first two years of evaluation
Learning Away, in partnership with over 60 primary and secondary schools across the UK, set out to develop and evaluate 'next practice' in residential experiences for pupils. Three years on the first findings of the evaluation are revealing significant impacts on attainment, learner engagement, behaviour and attendance as well as wider impacts on schools and communities. It is also unearthing some of the critical ingredients for these impressive outcomes. This workshop will focus on the findings of this study, explore what this means for the provision of residential experiences and introduce the focus of the continued evaluation of the initiative.
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