Courses

Nature Therapy CIC courses 2021/22

Nature Therapy CIC is an award winning nationally accredited training provider.

We deliver unique, innovative and engaging courses designed to enhance your personal and professional development.

Our primary tutor, Dr Kim Brown, has a Doctorate in Health Science thereby ensuring all our courses have a sound evidence base.

Kim is a national Expedition Leaders Tutor. This ensures our courses are grounded in best practice in terms of risk management and safety.

Kim is also a qualified nurse, midwife and teacher who specialises in Experiential Learning - a way of learning that involves having fun and using all your senses.

Our courses will bring you to the beautiful shores of the Isle of Wight in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Coastal Heritage and a UNESCO Biosphere site.

A link to travel and accommodation is provided below.
Pushbikes are available for you to use free of charge.

As a not for profit social enterprise all fees charged for courses and workshops go towards running our projects for vulnerable people.

We run only one course per year on any specific subject.
Places are limited to just ten people per course to ensure you have the best possible learning experience.

Click on green buttons below the brief course details to find out more about the courses available, dates, booking and investment.

We also offer one day Nature Quests.

Quests are not just nice walks in the country - they are journeys through nature to discover your inner wildness.

All our Quests are weather and/or tide dependent and take place in the summer.

You will find our Quests advertised on our FB page under Events.
The cost for each Quest is £10 per person payable on the day.

Quests include:

Dancing with Horses
Mud Slide of Faith
Cave of Secret Carvings
Forest Library
Tree Cathedral
Medicine Shield
Sensory Storytelling

We have been holding off being able to set dates for some courses due to Corona Virus - we will provide you with a return of your course costs should we have to cancel due to further restrictions

Labyrinth
Leadership Award

Labyrinths are reported to date back 50,000 years. They
have been found worldwide across many different cultures

We bring this ancient symbol back to life through a three day training programme on how to facilitate walking a labyrinth using the Nature Therapy CIC model of practice to enhance mental. emotional and sensory resilience

This four day course was held in May 2021 with a follow up day in August 2021

2022 dates

9th, 10th and 11th May 2022

August follow up day to be agreed with course participants

Labyrinth

Forest Medicine Leadership Award

Based on the ancient Japanese practice of Forest Bathing, the research over the past 40 years demonstrate sound evidence of the impact on human well being.

This four day course provides you with the basics in understanding the scientific evidence, risk management, safety in leading individuals into a woodland as well as taster sessions of engaging activities designed to reduce stress and anxiety and enhance mental health

This course was held in June 2021 with a follow up day in August

2022 dates

27th, 28th and 29th June 2022

August follow up day to be agreed with course participants

Forest Medicine

Wolf Medicine
Fully Booked

This five day course is
one of our most popular. It has been running for some years now and was initially co created hand in hand with ex veterans
with post traumatic stress syndrome.

However, it is now available for anyone to take part in. It has been shown to significantly reduce anxiety, low mood and feelings of disconnect.

It has been designed as a transformational journey for you to
step into your wisdom
and ultimately walk in your own
power.

Using a mix of ancient knowledge, meaningful interaction with horses and meditating with real wolves we will spend the week on beautiful beaches, creating music in forests and setting free our creative spirit

2021 course is Fully Booked

2022 dates

11th, 12th, 13th, 14th July

September follow up day to be agreed with course participants

Wolf Medicine

Think Like an Octopus

This two day course provides you with the basics of a solution focused approach to the challenges we experience in life. This can be a personal or a professional development course.

The first day looks at the general concepts of focusing on solutions whilst the second day we take out in to the field - literally - to gain skills in the ancient Hawaiian practice of
Ho-oponopono

This course involves interacting with a small herd of friendly ponies. You can remain behind a fence if you prefer.

16th and 17th

July 2021

Think like an Octopus

Kindness
(anti-bullying)

Shortlisted for a Teach First National Award

If you are interested in introducing a proven, hands on and fun way to address bullying - then this boxed course on how to set a unique approach in your school, club, or
group is well worth the investment.

It is also relevant for independent anti-bullying practitioners

Based on evidence that most bullying occurs because a child is seen to be different in some way,

Using experiential learning methods you are guided to lead children through a process of understanding that everyone is different in some way.

Proven to enhance acts of kindness and improve self esteem in those children most likely to be bullied.

The Sense Box contains everything you need to establish your own Kindness Programme in a school or youth group

Available from our on line store October 2021

Kindness

Wolf Survival
Fully Booked

This 5 day course is for young people aged 12 years upwards accompanied by an adult.

It is aimed at building mental, emotional and sensory resilience through learning survival skills.

The basis behind this course is your mind is your best asset in a survival situation - it can also be your downfall.

Basic survival skills such as
shelter building and coastal survival are part of this course along with helping young people process the information to gain insight in to their own way of being.

August2021

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Wolf Survival

Medicine of the Wheel

There are many paths that lead to mental health and well being - the Medicine of the Wheel being one such path.

This one day nature based course is a blend of ancient
knowledge drawn from different disciplines, time lines and traditions.

The course has been designed to introduce you to the Nature Therapy CIC model of practice. It will help you attune yourself to the wonders of the natural world using the global symbol of the sacred circle.

The symbolic circle can be found in
ancient cave art
as well as within many of the
major religions. It is a symbol of introspection.

Medicine of the Wheel can help you look within to gain insight s into your inner wisdom.

You may wish to combine Medicine of the Wheel with the Labyrinth Leaders course. The dates have been designed to follow on to help facilitate this.

May 12th 2022

Wheel Medicine

Nature based
Dementia Care

This is a 12 hour training programme for anyone who cares for someone with a dementia. It is usually run over two days.

It is aimed at helping you understand the impact of sensory deprivation and what can be done to help maintain communication when words get lost and memories become fragile.

Doing activities with someone with a dementia is not just a nice thing to do - it is vital to their mental and emotional wellbeing.

All our nature based dementia care training workshops involve working alongside people with a dementia.

This course is provided for teams or carers of 10 or more. The cost is £40 per participant for the two day workshops plus travel expenses

Email wolfmedicine@icloud.com
for further information

Dementia Care

Drumming
for Dementia

Our nature therapy work with people with a dementia has led us to uncover the valuable role drumming circles play with this way of being.

If you want to deliver drum sessions
in care and residential homes, with groups, and alongside other organisations, then this course is ideal for you

The curriculum involves understanding how to set up playlists, make your own recycled drums and gain skills in delivering our model of drumming.

The programme ensures you will be able to provide scientific evidence to support Drum Therapy.

The Level 1 course
is available on line
email wolfmedicine@icloud.com
for joining details

FREE

Level 2 course available
October 2021

Drum Medicine