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Bioregional Learning Days

  • 13th to 18th of July, 2026 or 7th to 12th of September, 2026
  • Lower Sharpham Farm, Ashprington, Totnes. TQ9 7DX.
  • Cost: £775 - inclusive of food and accommodation
Book through The Bioregional Learning Centre

Join Ambios and The Bioregional Learning Centre at Lower Sharpham Farm

This residential course is a 5-day immersion into place and practice for bioregional practitioners from the UK and beyond. Designed to deliver the “why” and the “how to”, you will explore theory and know-how, and participate in practical conversation in order to apply the learning with your collaborators at home. The venue is Ambios’ working farm, with rewilding fields, market garden, beautiful views for reflection and a barn, complete with hay bales. The learning will begin right here on the farm, boots in the mud.

The programme blends together different forms of learning; time outdoors, sensing practices, small-group discussion and design, a journey or two beyond the farm, shared meals and time together around the campfire in order to understand ways of working both locally and within a bioregional ecosystem. To include essential core competencies for bioregional practice, nuggets of wisdom about systems and complexity, examples of regenerative work happening here and in other bioregions and tools and techniques. Your guides will be the BLC team who are experienced and skilled practitioners, alongside the Ambios team and special guests. 

What you’ll learn

  • First steps and entry points for starting a bioregional journey, including water, soil and climate adaptation
  • Applicable knowledge and skills for developing bioregional practice
  • Design for regenerative action within many sectors, including finance and food production
  • Advanced convening and communicating practices
  • Know-how from those making dents in old systems or forging new pathways
  • Processes and techniques for understanding, sensing and mapping a bioregion
  • The development process for a Bioregional Finance Facility
  • Natural ecosystem restoration – collaborative modelling, including the arts
  • Guidance for policymaker decision making in the face of change and crises.

Key Course Details

Our aim is to create a tightly-knit cohort, supported by BLC to share their learning experience with one another and to find commonality for future connection.

£775 includes 5 nights accommodation in a private room with shared bathrooms. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided. Travel costs are not included. Payment by installment is available on request.

An option is to purchase a non-refundable deposit with balance due 30-days prior to start of course. Payment of balance by installment available on request, if you are interested please get in touch via BLC’s contact form. You will receive an email to notify you of the outstanding balance.

To assist people who cannot pay the full fee to come on our course, we may be able to offer discounted tickets. Please use BLC’s contact form to let them know you would like to be considered for a discount and they will get in touch with you.

Arrival in the afternoon for a 6pm dinner on Monday, the evening before the first full day begins. Departure before 11am on Saturday, the day after the last full learning day (which ends after dinner).

Accommodation at Ambios is provided on the farm. You will be staying in the bunkhouse in compact and comfortable private rooms with shared bathrooms. All your meals are included. A plant-based menu is prepared on-site using locally sourced and organic ingredients wherever possible. Special diets are catered for where possible, please let us know your requirements.

Please  find directions to Lower Sharpham Farm here.

We encourage lift sharing and taxi sharing. The cohort is small, so let us know if you need a ride and we will share this message with participants.

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The Residential Experience

You will be living and learning alongside your peers during your stay with Ambios. You will be based at Lower Sharpham Farm, our wildlife-friendly working farm and rewilding site on 130 acres of the Sharpham Estate, near to the vibrant market town of Totnes. The site sits among the trees with spectacular views of the River Dart and the idyllic surrounding countryside.

Training with Ambios

“What Ambios does is completely unique. You can find conservation training anywhere, but I don’t think there’s another place that offers this level of practical tuition and immersive learning with such a current, sector-leading approach.”
Ambios alumni
“The course proved I could achieve the career I’d longed for - it provided the skills I needed to access jobs and confirmed I loved the reality of conservation work too.”
Ambios AlumniCEO
“My experience has been like an incredible journey of friendship, conservation, skill building and self-esteem”
Ambios alumni
“I have learnt so much to do generally with wildlife, conservation and the environment, I feel that it greatly adds to my future job prospects.”
Ambios Alumni
“The course at Ambios proved I could achieve the career I’d longed for - it provided the skills I needed to access jobs and confirmed I loved the reality of conservation work too.”
Ambios alumni
“It really is a unique mix of theoretical and practical education and then there’s the expertise of your co-workers and teachers which is priceless.”
Ambios alumniCEO
“I gained a lifelong experience and lasting knowledge about the scientific part and the personal side of life too.”
Ambios AlumniCEO
“With this placement I feel I have practical knowledge and experience which is not just a piece of paper and will help me achieve my goals"
Ambios AlumniCEO
“Things I’ve learnt here and the people I’ve met have really changed how I see things”
Ambios AlumniCEO
"Thanks to my time at Ambios, the scales have fallen from my eyes, and, in a very good way, I will never see our natural world in the same way again.   I feel very lucky to have had this opportunity"
Ambios AlumniCEO
"It was a fantastic experience from start to finish, the course is chock full of amazing content, the location is stunning, the facilities excellent and all the team are passionate, welcoming and quite frankly ecological geniuses."
Ambios AlumniCEO
“It was the best 3 months of my life”
Ambios AlumniCEO
“Without doubt, doing the traineeship with Ambios has enabled me to make the leap from working for arts charities to working in conservation in a matter of months. The traineeship gives you practical, tangible skills that employers in the environmental sector need to see"
Ambios AlumniCEO

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