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.