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New Summer 2025 Residential Training

Woodcrafters Facilitator Training

Professional development programme equipping practitioners, educators, and wellbeing professionals to deliver Woodcraft for Wellbeing in their own settings, delivered by Woodcrafters CIC, and hosted by Ambios.

This immersive, practice-based course blends craft, nature connection, and facilitation training, helping people bring the therapeutic power of wood carving to their communities, schools, and organisations.

  • Lower Sharpham Farm, Ashprington, Totnes. TQ9 7DX.
  • 18th - 20th of September, 2026
  • 12 spots available
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Course overview - what to expect

The Woodcrafters Facilitator Training equips participants with the skills, understanding, and confidence to
deliver safe, inclusive and meaningful woodcraft sessions in their own communities. Combining online
learning, hands-on training and mentored practice, this professional development course provides a solid
foundation in facilitation, safety, and reflective practice. It is particularly geared towards delivering
woodcraft to vulnerable children, adults and marginalised groups.

Who's it for?

This training is designed for anyone who wants to bring the creative, grounding and community-building benefits of woodcraft into their own setting. Whether you work in education, mental health, community engagement or outdoor learning, the course provides the practical skills and facilitation tools to weave woodcraft for wellbeing into your work with children, young people or adults.

Certification

Graduates who complete all three stages receive a Woodcrafters Facilitator Certificate, recognising competence in delivering safe, inclusive woodcraft sessions that foster creativity, connection, and community wellbeing. This is a non-accredited professional development course designed to meet emerging standards for arts and nature-based wellbeing facilitation.

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Graduates who successfully complete the Woodcrafters Facilitator Training will have the opportunity to become licensed Woodcrafter practitioners, which opens up the potential for future funded sessions, professional standards of practice, and CPD opportunities.

What is Woodcraft for Wellbeing?

Woodcraft for Wellbeing combines the therapeutic elements of traditional green woodcarving with the restorative power of nature connection. Working slowly and mindfully with natural materials creates space for focus, calm, and creativity — helping people reconnect with themselves, with others, and with the natural world.
Every workshop offers time, tools, and guidance to make something useful and beautiful by hand, but the real craft is in the sense of belonging, confidence and connection it builds. Participants consistently report feeling more relaxed, focused, and optimistic after just one session.

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Woodcraft for Wellbeing sessions take place in calm, natural spaces — woodland clearings, outdoor classrooms, or community workshops.

Each follows a simple rhythm: arrive → connect → carve → reflect.

Typical Sessions include:

  • Welcoming circle and grounding exercise
  • Wellbeing Intro & Setting the Stage
  • Tool talk: Short demonstration of safe knife use
  • Session 1 Guided carving activity 
  • Shared tea break
  • Session 2 Guided carving activity
  • Reflection on process, feedback & outcome gathering

To find out all the course information and to book, please visit Woodcrafters’ site below:

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If you have any queries about this course, please contact info@woodcrafters.uk

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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