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Education Camps
Specifically designed and delivered for colleges, schools and more.
Utilising over 70 years of experience in outdoor living, skills & knowledge in woodland, land & water based activities. Assisting mental and physical wellbeing.
We are proud to combine our skills learnt from the services and education careers after leaving the Forces. We can deliver bespoke programs for main stream Schools and Colleges, from day sessions upto 48hr camps. Wether it is a day team building learning key life and employability skills or gathering practical eveidence for assignments. We utilise adventure activities and woodland skills to educate our young learners, from forgoten woodland skills to navigating up a local fell or mountain. Education comes in so many forms and not all of our young learners, learn the same way, many of us learn by practilly doing (kinaesthetic lsarning). Being outside in a unique environment lends itself to this style of learning, allowing the hands on approach and learning without knowing it. Evidence can also be gathered for assignnents being delivered at College.
We plan and deliver sessions on land and water to allow this evidence to be displayed for the purposes of different units required. All our sessions and camps are delivered by our own qualified and DBS checked Woodland Xperiences instructors.
The Woodland Xperience Ethos
We all stare at the dancing flames, hypnotic as they are. if you could read them they would be telling their own story and adventures!
Taking time out from the treadmill of work and life is fundamental in maintaining a balanced healthy mind and body, People from all walks of life experience traumas and conflict which can have a detrimental effect on our mental and physical health, which in turn is then put to one side but boils away within us without us sometimes knowing, ready to explode at any trigger affecting close family, friends, relationships, work and unconsciously ourselves!
There are endless studies into how the great outdoors can benefit us from around the globe, here in the UK there has been a pioneering new study highlighting the benefits of going for a walk, being outside, and in the fresh air.
Some call it Eco-therapy, letting the natural environment in and being engulfed within its superior wonderfulness, then fending for oneself…nothing is judgemental in the outdoor environment! We're all equal.
Furthermore, mastering new challenges in a collaborative environment boosts self-esteem and social skills. Individuals of all ages can benefit from Adventure and the outdoors, it's proven to be an effective tool for overcoming a wide range of mental health challenges. As a result, adventure Therapy offers ways to care for mental illness for people recovering from eating disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder, Additionally, it is a powerful anxiety and depression treatment approach. It can also help those who are working to come to terms with a personal loss. As well, Adventure Based Therapy can add an exciting and productive element to family or relationship therapy.
Building on and considering all this research, thoughts, and findings of others together with personal experiences of prolonged exposure to the outdoors Woodland Xperiences was created, to assist with Post Traumatic Growth.