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Information for Job Centre Plus Centres about Nature Workshops and what we offer on the Local Supplier Framework.
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Immersive activity in nature to improve confidence and motivation
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Delivery Model
Not for profit
Quality
Consistent
Reliable
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Delivery Model: what do we do?
Providing access to local natural spaces to develop life long skills
Games, tool use, bushcraft, arts, cooking, talking, thinking, silence.
Sensory, educational, physical and social activities focussing on individual needs and learning styles
Risk assessing with the referrer and the participant before the sessions start
Using spaces as near to the participants and as accessible as possible
Ensuring each session is iterative for the practitioner and the participants with regular reflection time
Ensuring sessions are varied to meet all participants needs, adding challenges and completed activities
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Delivery Model
Participants choose to come
Adults needing help with health condition management-physical or mental
Long term unemployed
Low self esteem
Maximum 12 participants per session, each session maximum 6 hours, includes all food and
drinks and 5 sessions (consecutive days or weekly)
WE DO NOT
Provide transport, appropriate clothing or other expenses
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Methods- measuring the impact
QuantitativeMeasure
Warwick and
Edinburgh Mental
Well Being Scale
(WEMWBS)
Informant
Adult Participant
Description
14 positive statements pre
and post intervention
Measure
Reflective review at the
beginning and end of each
session
Accredited training
Informant
Participants
Description
- Often linked to learning
styles eg drama, music, poetry,
2D or 3D images
Forest School, Water
Awareness, Outdoor First Aid
Methods Qualitative
Results: QuantitativeWEMWBS
1 2 3 4 5 60
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60
70
Nature Workshops Good from Wood Project
Well Being in Nature - Warwick and Edinburgh Well Being Scale
Score Before
Score After
Participant
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Results-qualitative
Headline results, unexpected:
1 woman with GPs consent was able to come off one her anti psychotic drugs
2 brothers became ardent recyclers at home even though as an issue this was
not referenced in the content of our sessions
Everyone passed Level 1 Forest School training
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Top 3 most referenced well being indicators for adults with mental health problems were 'developing oneself', 'feelings of closeness to the natural world', 'optimistic about the future'.
Results: qualitative
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Results - Qualitative
'The space was lovely, it was nice, you just didn’t feel penned in and if you really wanted to go off on your own you could do it ... how different it is and how your mind can work totally different to being in like a room - especially when you have got a really racing mind, it is amazing how that racing kind of stops………'
'I really couldn’t wait, saw my CPN yesterday and I was like “I can’t wait, I’m going tomorrow”.'
'I kind of energise cos I have isolated myself so much in the few years. I’ve realised that when you go out and do stuff and be with other people; while there is a risk things might go wrong you’re also opening yourself up to really positive experiences as well.'
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Career Prospects
From initial attendence participants will be encouraged to take on training with us: Levels 1, 2
and 3 Forest School Training, Royal Life Saving Society Water Saftey Management Awareness
Training
If they wish and where appropriate participants will be offered volunteering placements with us.
Those who pass through our training up to Level 3 Forest School or RLSS Instructor will probably be
offered paid work with us on a sessional basis
The whole experience and training can lead or link into to a wide variety of professions: teaching and learning, childcare, ecology and land management
(eg National Trust or Forestry Commission), horticultural, cooking, carpentry, traditional
woodland skills and independent practitioner.
‘we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children’ Native American proverb
www.natureworkshops.co.uk
Thank you
Any questions?