Our exciting programme of events and experience offer opportunities to learn new skills and explore local nature with our inspiring team and guest specialists. Fantastic gifts for the curious and adventurous or a great gift to yourself!
Accredited training, CPD and events and experiences coming up..
As a charity, we have a limited number of subsidised spaces for all events available at 25% off the cost for marginalised communities or folks in challenging socio-economic situations. Get in touch with amy@thegardenclassroom.org.uk if you are looking to book a subsidised space.
ART IN NATURE
Explore approaches to Land Art with acclaimed artist James Brunt and TGC’s Richard Skrein. Discover ways of working with natural materials and take time to play and create something unforgettable. A very rare opportunity to work with James Brunt in London, not to be missed!
When: Friday 24th May 2024
Times: 10am-4pm
Where: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, E3
Cost: £125
Book your place here
As a charity, we have a limited number of subsidised spaces for all events available at 25% off the cost for marginalised communities or folks in challenging socio-economic situations. Get in touch with amy@thegardenclassroom.org.uk if you are looking to book a subsidised space.
Song & Story
Join us for a joyful experience weaving song, story and deep nature connection in a beautiful 31-hectare nature reserve in London with TGC's Holly Jacks and Richard Skrein.
Grow your confidence in song-sharing and storytelling, and come away with some new tunes and tales for all seasons. Expect a playful day of exploration on the land. We bring this workshop with the full confidence that everyone is a natural singer and storyteller, so wherever you are on your journey, you are welcome!
When: Friday 3rd May 2024
Times: 10am-4pm
Where: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, E3
Cost: £125
Book your place here
As a charity, we have a limited number of subsidised spaces for all events available at 25% off the cost for marginalised communities or folks in challenging socio-economic situations. Get in touch with amy@thegardenclassroom.org.uk if you are looking to book a subsidised space.
Working with Distressed Behaviour in the Outdoors
3 day course led by Jon Cree
When: Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th July 2024
Times: 9am -5pm each day
Where: King Henry's Walk Garden, N1 4NX
Cost: £325
Who is the course for: Anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of ‘behaviour’ expressed by learners of any age, and how working outdoors within a natural space can be a catalyst for change. Suitable for:Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Early Years Practitioners, Outdoor Educators, Forest School Practitioners, Home School Educators, Play Workers.
Course content:This 3 day course will unpick theory and look at real life case studies through outdoor exercises and chats round the fire! The days will be participatory and crammed full of tips, ideas, and activities that can be used in any natural setting. There will be time and space to consider specific issues that participants may be encountering with specific individuals in their care. Importantly the course will encourage participants to look at themselves and ways of self-regulating in order to support regulation with the learners in the groups we work with in the outdoors. We will also be exploring why natural settings are essential to behavioural regulation.
The underlying ethos/methodology of the course is one of problem solving through difficulties and working with learner centred and ecological centred practices.
If you opt for the accredited option you have the opportunity of gaining a level 3 accreditation (worth 3 credits) from ITC (please note that this option requires some assessment via discussion participation and coursework to meet assessment criteria). The cost of the accreditation is £55.
The course will include:
- What do behaviours communicate and reframing ‘challenging behaviour’: what does anxiety, ‘stressed behaviour’ and socially/ecologically engaged behaviour look like?
- The 3 C’s: Models for working with behaviour,
- Why outdoors? What needs does the natural world cater for?
- Interventions & de-escalation: ways of working with behaviours
- A 'needs – based’ approach and what needs the outdoors satisfy.
How to work with various ‘needs’ from neuro-typical through to various ‘attachment’ needs, including ASD, sensory attachments and many other ‘labels’! - Working with brain, body and place: how the nervous system works. Co- regulation and self-regulation - the essential body based approaches.
- Neurobiology and nervous system understandings are a core takeaway from the course.
- Self- care: Looking after ourselves
- Reviewing policy & procedures relating to behaviour and safety. Working in partnership with our client groups and organisations.
Wild Camp 2024
For TGC's Trainee Community
Wild camp with TGC! A unique offer for TGC Forest School Trainees past and present to come and wild camp in a private and ancient woodland in Kent. Learn new skills, widen your professional network and have a blissful time out in the woods with Rich and the TGC community. Will you build a shelter with natural materials, sleep in a hammock, tent or simply a bivvy bag under the stars? Think woodland skills, a bubbling pot of food on the fire and storytelling as night draws in... This one is just for the adults, sorry kids!
Arrive by 11am on Saturday for a day of skills and setting up camp ready for delicious evening meal and storytelling around the campfire. Sunday begins with a hearty breakfast before continuing skills and packing up the camp before an optional Sunday lunch at a nearby country pub.
We provide: Refreshments on arrival and tea and coffee throughout. Delicious vegetarian campfire evening meal on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday. Guidance and expertise throughout and campfire storytelling.
You provide: Your own travel, a packed lunch for Saturday, your own camping equipment as desired: sleeping bag, mat, bivvy bag, tarp, tent and funds for the optional Sunday pub lunch.
When: 13th & 14th July 2024
Where: At Ryewell Wood close to The Rock Inn, Hoath Corner, Chiddingstone Hoath, Edenbridge TN8 7BS
Cost: £150 per person
As a charity, we have a limited number of subsidised spaces for all events available at 25% off the cost for marginalised communities or folks in challenging socio-economic situations. Get in touch with amy@thegardenclassroom.org.uk if you are looking to book a subsidised space.
EARTH-BODY, RITUAL & THE POWER OF THE GODDESS:
A Woodland Exploration of the Art of Ana Mendieta
Led by Spanish-American artist based in Barcelona Lisa Rubin and co-facilitated by TGC's Richard Skrein, this one-day workshop will delve into Ana Mendieta’s earth-body work ‘silhouettes’. Mendieta, a Cuban-American artist working in the 1970’s exploring body art, land art and feminism believed that ‘the earth is a living thing from which one gains power’ and this forms the basis of our exploration. We re-enact her works with personal interpretations in a guided process using rocks, branches, plants, roots, water and the earth itself. We will seek out our own connections to the universal energy that sparked Mendieta’s practice.No previous art experience required.
When: TBC
Times: 10am-4pm
Where: In London. Venue to be announced
Cost: £95
If you are interested in this course, please email training@thegardenclassroom.org.uk
