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Adventures in Nature
*Friluftsliv; a handy word meaning open-air living, capturing the Scandinavian approach to living life in harmony in nature.
The first part of my Churchill Fellowship trip, in which I am seeking to understand how to enable more nature connection for older people, has been spent in Amsterdam, a stop off on my train journey up to Norway. A few months ago, a colleague showed me an magazine article from the National Trust magazine about their Damsons group running from their property Peckover House, inspired by the Odensehuis model. Described as a meeting place for people living with dementia and their family and carers, group members take an active role in how the group is managed. Odense is in Denmark, but there are Odensehuis across the Netherlands, so I approached a few in Amsterdam to see if I could visit and find out more. I received replies from Maartje and Hans, who work at Odensehuis in two very different parts of the city. (more…)
*Friluftsliv; a handy word meaning open-air living, capturing the Scandinavian approach to living life in harmony in nature.
There is less than a week to go until I set off on my Churchill Fellowship trip to Norway. My trains and ferries are booked, my itinerary is planned and my diary is nearly full with a list of visits and appointments with organisations doing innovative work in my area of study. All that is left for me to do is to pack my bags and say goodbye to colleagues, friends and family. But before I do, I need to explain why I’m going. Afterall, two months is a long time to disappear, leaving my business and family to manage without me ‘on a free holiday’, as at least one person has described it, (its not)!
Get Out More has been delivering accredited forest school training since 2021 and we receive a lot of interest from people who are interested in gaining qualifications in forest school. This blog post aims to answer some of the more frequently asked questions and provide information on the Level 3 Certificate for Forest School Leaders and the Level 2 Award for Forest School Assistants
Get Out More has been delivering accredited forest school training since 2021 and we receive a lot of interest from people who are interested in gaining qualifications in forest school. This blog post aims to answer some of the more frequently asked questions and provide information on the Level 1 Award in Forest School Ethos and Principles.
Our Holiday Forest School programme is a mainstay of the school holidays at Get Out More. We’ve been running programmes in all seasons in an all outdoor setting since 2010, so we’ve had plenty of questions about how it works and how we keep children safe. Which is why we have compiled a collection of the most frequently asked questions and put them together in this blog post!
