With Sarah Blackwell
FSE Founder, Sarah Blackwell
Become a fully-qualified, inspirational Forest Schools leader
Train with Forest Schools Education Founder, Sarah Blackwell, who will give you the skills, knowledge and confidence to create and deliver your own Forest Schools programmes in your own setting, wherever you are in the world.
Initial Training Week In Bali
Begin your practical training at the breath-taking Green School, Bali with Forest Schools Education Found and Master Coach, Sarah Blackwell.
Portfolio of Evidence
After the training week, you'll be required to submit a portfolio of evidence using our unique online portfolio. Upon completion you'll be assessed.
We've trained and changed the lives of over 19,000 people around the globe...
By the time you have completed your life-changing Forest School training, you will be able to create and deliver your own long-term Forest Schools programmes in your own setting as a fully-qualified Forest Schools Leader.
We will give you all the knowledge, skills and confidence to change the lives of those around you.
We will give you all the knowledge, skills and confidence to change the lives of those around you.
Put your career on a new, natural path.
"I have been a teacher on and off since the mid 1980's and have always struggled with the overemphasis successive governments place on testing, targets, measurement, conformity etc. The week I spent with Paul and my fellow Level 3 trainees was the most rewarding educational experience I have had in many a long year. The ethos of forest school is what I believe Education should and can be and everyone deserves to experience it!"
Kate Shaw
Forest Schools Trainee
"Forest School had been an interest for a while and took the plunge in April. The induction week was the most motivating and inspirational week I have ever had in my career. Every aspect was was wonderfully communicated. I left to continue my Forest School journey feeling well supported and very enthused with the whole concept and ethos. I feel like I had almost had a personal therapy session myself to help me reflect and review my own practice!"
Julian Sandford
Forest Schools Trainee
"There is something naturally magical and wonderful about being in the forest. what it brings to your sense of self. A calmness, lots of creativity, peace, harmony, balance and an inner wonder for its nature. Everything about being in the woodland has a positive effect. Training with Forest Schools Education, Archimedes unlocks the door and the doors fling wide open to show the teaching and learning that can take place. For everyone willing."
Catherine Turner
Forest Schools Trainee
"All I can say is I loved my Forest School training, The trainers are soooo inspirational the knowledge they give you helps you understand where they are coming from and what they want you to pass on. And the group I was in we turn into a supportive group we helped each other through everything. It's the best training course I've been on ever it was fun, practical, hard working and lots of learning :-) and im glad I decided to do Forest School as my career"
Natalie Elbrow
Forest Schools Trainee
Who is the course for?
- Anyone in a facilitating teaching or mentoring role with babies, early years, young children, adolescents , young people or NEETS.
- Anyone in social care: those responsible for mentoring young mothers, and young fathers, – families
- Those in special needs forums: ASD learning disability, mental health, social care , adopters, adoptees.
- Educators – teachers, TA’s caretakers and dinner/break staff.
- Forestry and countryside workers: social forestry and educational groups.
You don’t need to have done Level 1 or 2 to join our Level 3 course. We only require that you have had past experience in working with children in any work capacity.
What will you learn?
The course content of the Forest Schools Training Course is based on up-to-date research surrounding aspects of:
- Child development
- Personal development
- Neuro-science
- Educational theory
- Woodland conservation and recreation
- Innovative and therapeutic theory in the outdoors
- Risk assessments to enable safe outdoor play and education
A Day In The Life Of A Forest School Leader
During the course
- You will learn to understand the Forest Schools Model and how this is essential to learning and development paradigms for wholeness and wellbeing
- You will learn how to be Transformational not simply Transactional in your approach to working with others in nature
- You will learn about the natural environment and how to manage it effectively and sustainably
- You will learn the importance of understanding ecosystems and their function for educational development that includes both environmental as well as personal sustainability
- You will learn not only the importance of emotional literacy but how you as a Forest School professional will integrate a professional developmental programme that is effectual at a neurological level of processing and formation
- You will understand why the long-term interventional process of Archimedes Forest Schools is fundamental to personal, social and emotional development and a secure sense of self and place
- You will understand what it’s like to be a learner who is challenged physically emotionally socially and spiritually
- You will appreciate that as we walk our own journey we are continually changing and learning – you will learn that to empower children is a gift that can only make us wiser and our world a more imaginative, beautiful place in which to live
- You will learn that the world and each child within it, including yourself, is precious and deserves compassion and love to succeed.
- You will learn how to plan, design and resource fire : fire for light, for heat, for food, for community, for focus, for visions and for valuable lessons.
- You will learn how to use struggle to overcome misunderstanding in order to create order from chaos
- You will learn how boundaries and rules set us on a path to fresco. By using tools that are scary and dangerous and could do us harm, but actually give a joy and personal responsibility and a sense of worth and ver great adventures
Course places are limited.
25 places maximum for this training course.
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