Nature Base Practitioner Development

Nature Base practitioner development goes beyond outdoor activity delivery. It explores how play, nature connection and relational practice can support emotional wellbeing, inclusion and development.

Sessions are grounded in experiential learning, reflective practice and Nature Base’s professional experience, helping practitioners consider how outdoor environments can become spaces for regulation, connection, participation and wellbeing.

Topics can include:

  • Play as a tool for emotional regulation and wellbeing

  • Therapeutic principles within outdoor and Forest School practice

  • Supporting children with additional needs in natural environments

  • Neurodiversity, inclusion and trauma-aware outdoor facilitation

  • Creating safe, relational and responsive outdoor environments

  • Nature-based approaches to wellbeing, engagement and connection

Sessions can be delivered as workshops, reflective practice sessions, team development or bespoke professional learning for schools, charities, community organisations and other practitioners.

Areas of Practitioner Development & Consultancy

Workshops, professional learning and consultancy are bespoke and tailored to organisational need, and may include:

  • Therapeutic Forest School and outdoor learning practice

  • Nature-based wellbeing and ecotherapy approaches

  • Play-based learning and child development in outdoor settings

  • Supporting emotional regulation through nature connection

  • Neurodiversity, inclusion and SEN-informed outdoor practice

  • Designing inclusive outdoor and nature play environments

  • Risk assessment, safeguarding and health & safety in outdoor contexts

  • Group facilitation, leadership and reflective practice

  • Community engagement and participatory consultation

  • Volunteer development, recruitment and retention

  • Programme design, vision setting and strategic planning

Working Together

Nature Base works with schools, charities, churches, Government departments, corporate teams and third-sector organisations to provide bespoke workshops, practitioner development and consultancy.

All work is designed to be practical, reflective and grounded in real-world application, supporting practitioners and organisations to build confidence in inclusive, relational and wellbeing-focused outdoor practice.

Sophie has previously delivered practitioner workshops for organisations including the NSPCC locally and works in collaboration with Wild Circle to co-ordinate Outdoor Leader and Forest School Practitioner networking events, supporting professional skill-sharing, peer learning and reflective practice across the outdoor learning sector.

If you would like to explore working together, please get in touch.