Facilitating ‘Nature Wellbeing’ (Certified)
Monday, October 5, 2026
Date
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Time
Peatlands Park, 33 Derryhubbert Rd, Dungannon, BT71 6NW
Location
£50
Cost
About This Event
A fully outdoor workshop exploring how nature connection and outdoor education practices can be used to enhance wellbeing.
This course is only suitable for those who have completed the ‘Introduction to Outdoor Education/Learning’ workshop. See our course calendar to book this if needed, before attending this course.
Join Field Studies Ireland for a certified, fully outdoor workshop exploring how nature connection and outdoor education practices can be used to enhance wellbeing, through meaningful engagement with local outdoor spaces.
Participants will take part in a hands-on workshop full of curiosity, exploration, and discovery, developing creative activity ideas and opportunities to link practice with current research and evidence.
The course aligns closely with the ‘Five Steps to Wellbeing’, exploring tangible, hands-on ways to achieve each step outdoors through nature connection and experiential learning.
Participants will discover how to design and facilitate outdoor wellbeing sessions that encourage people to slow down, observe, and connect with their local environment, supporting both personal wellbeing of your future learners, alongside you own professional practice. As a group, we will then strengthen those ideas with logic, structure, benefits, and evidence drawn from best practice and experience.
This workshop is suitable for teachers, educators, youth workers, volunteers, and anyone who wishes to lead nature wellbeing while connecting with outdoor spaces through education and sensory based activity.
Expect a fully outdoor experience, learning directly in natural spaces.
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