Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training - 5 Days Course
Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training - 5 Days Course
£495.00
Course Location: Oxfordshire, Derbyshire or East Lothian - Scotland
Course Time: 09:00 Monday -16:00 Friday
Course Duration: 5 Days
Course size: 10
Course Age Range: 18+
Call US: 01234 351006 (09:30-16:30 7 Days) / 07843 064114 (Out of hours)
Booking Details:
Bushcraft Practitioner Development Training - 5 Days Course
This course
is designed for professional bushcraft practitioners like you, to enhance your personal
skills beyond the levels you currently deliver to your own audience, making you
more proficient in your own skills and to become a better
and safer instructor, enriching the way you currently deliver now at your own
venue.
You will be
inspired and empowered within the company of other bushcraft professionals,
within a rich peer-to peer learning environment.
We will be developing your skills to a higher level, supplementing and improving on skills already attained, and teaching you new ones for you to take back into your own practice. This is a good complimentary course to the IOL Bushcraft Competency Training and takes your skills to the next level.
Why should you come on this course? Well, when we teach Continued Professional Development courses, the most common thing we hear from clients is "Wow, and I thought I knew loads!"
You don't know, what you don't know until you become enlightened by learning something new about what you thought you knew. This course will do that and much more. You will be taught by some of the most knowledgeable instructors in the industry, teaching you transferable bushcraft skills to deliver to your own clients.
Throughout the course you will learn in detail:
- Flint on iron pyrite - To produce embers on amadou.
- Hand drill embers - using various materials and techniques.
- Make a group fire bow set - Learn varying applications and collect materials from the woodland.
- Char elements - man-made and foraged materials.
- Advanced knife grips - grips towards the body, producing a selection of utensils.
- Axe carving - safe use, producing a utensil.
- Carving session delivery techniques - accommodating different abilities and learning styles to your audience.
- Cutting tool selection, care and maintenance - knife, crook knife, saw and axe.
- Detailed plant identification - forage walk, legality, and reference recommendations.
- Sustainable harvesting - techniques ensuring flora remains productive through the changing season and subsequent years.
- Medicinal remedies - produce from foraged wild plants.
- Firewood - analysis and
species characteristics.
- Fire lays and fire management- their suitability for the vast array of cooking methods and other uses.
- Cooking frames - designs and applications.
- Cookware - comparison, care and maintenance. Advantages and disadvantages of each style and material type.
- Baking - produce a selection of different breads, from, Roman loaf, beer bread, native American fry bread, as well as wild seed damper loaf.
- Game preparation - fur and feather, with and without knives.
- Game cooking - in the ground, communal and at your own camp.
- Birch tar - dry distillation of birch bark, rendering to tar and its various applications.
- Coil basketry - produced from foraged material.
Through the week you are going to be working on a huge array of increased skill sets, from green woodwork carving skills with an axe, advanced bushcraft knife and crook knife grips to producing a range of utensils. This will arm you with the diverse range of carving skills, enabling you to release wood fibres in new ways, elevating your carving prowess.
Producing numerous embers using various methods from the hand drill, to sourcing the materials direct from the woodland to producing a group fire bow set, and how to apply it in various teaching arena's. You will also be joining the Otzi club in producing an ember using iron pyrites and flint, make your own char elements, both man-made and foraged materials you have collected from our beautiful woodlands. Utilise these skills further to blow that ember into flame, to form an established fire at your own camp to cook an evening game meal, supplemented with wild edibles.
You will learn to utilise and process an array of wild plants for various dishes, medicines and camp craft uses, through detailed identification conducted on a forage. Converting this knowledge into practical skills by collecting them to produce useful medicinal remedies for the great outdoors, prepare and cook delicious wild food without the need for cookware, and other tasks throughout the week such as producing birch oil and rendering it to tar and producing a coil baskets.
Creating cooking frames and suspension systems to suit every conceivable camp need, will equip you with some great group management skills, with as many different fire lays and cookware options and cooking methods to match, an in depth understanding of each of their suitable applications will develop, the benefits they provide, as well as their limitations.
We are taking your bushcraft skills and developing them to a much higher level than where you started. Supported by the years of experience behind your Woodland Ways instructors, who will not only guide you through this advance skill set, but show you how to convert them into transferable skills to relay to your own clients.
These skills
are reinforced with an in-depth information pack which will enhance your understanding
of key subject areas and helps clearly lay out the legal framework relating to
them.
The five-day
course starts at 09:00 am on Monday, 08:30 to 18:00 each day thereafter,
finishing at 16.00 on the Friday. The course is self-catering on all but the
Campfire cooking and game preparation day. Drinking water for hot and cold
beverages, as well as tea and coffee will be provided on each of the five days.
We operate
from a basic woodland venue with rustic furniture around the camp so do feel
free to bring additional items for your comfort throughout the week and
download our recommended kit list for additional advice. There will be hot and
cold water for drinks and a base camp style toilet for your comfort.
This course is available to book privately for groups of 8 or more.
For individuals
booking on our advertised dates= £495 per person, £450 for IOL members and holders of the FBC award (please telephone to book and give your membership number)
For group
bookings on your own date of 8 -10 persons = £495 per person, £450 for IOL members and holders of the FBC award (please telephone to book and give your membership numbers)
For group
bookings on your own date of 10+ = £450 per person, £400 for IOL members and holders of the FBC award (please telephone to book and give your IOL membership numbers)
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East Lothian- Scotland
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Our courses in East Lothian run from Blinkbonny Wood, a 100 acre mixed canopy woodland, nestling on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills which provides easy access to hill and moor.
Approximately 20 miles from Edinburgh and 5 miles from the historic market town of Haddington.
It is close to Longyester, and therefore public transport to the area is easily achievable with international flights coming in to Edinburgh, as well as Edinburgh Waverley Train Station.
The canopy is a mixed patchwork with birch, hazel and scots pine a plenty. Gorse throws in its usual colours in the year and at the woodland boundaries there are stunning views of the hills in one direction, the coast in another, and bordering farmland.
Within our woodlands here you are likely to see Roe Deer, and we have regular sign of badger. There is also a variety of species of owl.
We operate weekend and day courses from this woodlands and occasional longer duration courses that require access to the hill side. We also offer private courses for schools, parties, stag dos etc.
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Derbyshire
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This beautiful 1200 acre estate has been in private ownership since the realm of King Charles I, and is still managed by the same family as a working estate. Sitting within the National Forest we have access to 40/50 acre woodland blocks within the estate, as well as rolling fields and hedgerows covering the vast acreage.
Once again we benefit from a mixed canopy within the woodlands, with an abundance of bird life.
Situated less than 10 minutes drive out of Burton Upon Trent access to the site is easy.
Here we cater for smaller group sizes and run our Woodland Ways Weekend course, plus private bookings, stag do's, school bookings and more.
Toilet facilities are provided by means of composting toilets.
If arriving for a course please do not head to the Hall, in order to protect the privacy of the family. Please ensure when travelling to the venue you use the directions and not rely on Sat Nav in order to prevent getting lost.
This course can be purchased as an 18 month voucher, to book online choose "36 month voucher" from the options above and we will email the details over to you. Alternatively if you are purchasing this course as a gift we can post you a full colour gift presentation pack for just £4.25, just choose posted instead of emailed delivery option. Or contact us by phone to make the arrangements.
Call Us: 01234 351006 (09:30-16:30 7 Days) / 07843 064114 (Out of hours)
We’re happy to take course bookings and payments over the phone. Simply give us a call and we’ll place the booking for you before emailing through confirmation. Alternatively, drop us an email at info@woodland-ways.co.uk and we’ll call you back.
If your course booking is for a gift, no problem, just let us know at the time of booking and we’ll email you a personalised gift certificate or 18-month voucher to print at home. Or, for a small supplement, we’ll print out a gift pack and pop it in the post for you.