Summer Family Forage & Medicine Making
About the event
Join us for a morning of gathering and crafting medicines from the forest, hedgerows and meadows, followed by an afternoon of medicine making, song, story and games. Adults and accompanied children are welcome.
Experience a connective learning experience that will enable and inspire you to gather and share skills with your families and the children you work with. Through nature connection practices, practical knowledge and ancestral skills we explore connective ways to engage children with nature.
For most of our evolution, humans have lived in sync with nature. Our nervous systems are hard-wired to respond to stimuli received from the natural world. Faced with the over-stimulation of our modern world, our senses have become dulled and our sense of wellbeing affected.
This day offers the opportunity to remember your natural state of being in relationship with nature and to celebrate the gifts of summer. We will use established nature connection practices to awaken your senses and restore wellbeing, and offer some that you can take with you to practice in your daily life.
Who is this course suitable for?
- This course is suitable for adults and accompanied children, both beginners level and those with more experience in nature connection.
The course will cover
- Learn wild medicines to forage for food and medicine for all the family.
- Nurturing opportunities for adults and children to connect with the natural world together through creative processes.
- You will learn techniques, which will aid your well-being and provide an opportunity to explore your inner worlds.
Course Fees
Adults: £20 – £45 (sliding scale), Children £5
- Standard fee: £30
- Supporters fee: £45
- Supported fee: £20
We committed to making this work as accessible and inclusive as possible therefore have a number of concessionary spaces reserved for those in financial need, plus one fully funded space. Please enquire at [email protected].
Please pay at the level comfortable to you. We support paying it forward – when you pay more as a supporter, it will directly facilitate someone else to attend via the supported (concessionary) rate. And all additional income will directly help with the planting of Children’s Forests, contributing towards a bright future for all.
Terms & Conditions
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About the tutors
Lucinda Warner: Lucinda is a medicinal Herbalist, naturopath and nature lover. She loves to spend time on the Downs with the plants that grow there and can often be found in her kitchen blending, brewing, bottling and batching any number of strange and wonderful potions and elixirs. Lucinda loves sharing her experience of the many gifts that the natural world has to offer and empowering others to know and use some of the common plants that grow freely around us. You can find her at www.whisperingearth.co.uk
Katie Smith: Katie is a local Forest School Leader, Home Education Mentor and Women’s Circle Facilitator. She loves playing in the woods, foraging, natural medicine making and celebrating the seasons together. She has been learning about herbal medicine for 6 years, thanks to the plant wisdom of Alice, Anna and Lucinda and is deeply passionate about sharing the knowledge with children and adults alike.
