There’s a moment in every woodcraft session when something shifts: the conversation fades, the group goes quiet, fully focussed on their carving: they’ve dropped into the zone, its like magic!
This training is about helping you create that moment — safely, confidently, again & again.
Over two immersive days at our woodland location at Ambios, you’ll learn how to teach knife and axe-based woodcraft skills to groups of any background. Led by Alex Finberg, author of Spooncarving from Log to Spoon and founder of Woodcrafters, this practical, hands-on training is built for people who want to teach safe and engaging Woodcraft sessions.
You’ll learn how to teach knife based woodcraft skills and learn Alex’s accessible approach to teaching a 1 day log to spoon carving workshop.
If you’re a craftsperson, teacher, forest school leader, occupational therapist, mental health practitioner, community organiser, or social prescribing link worker — and you want to develop your teaching skills, this course is for you.
No prior carving experience needed. We teach everything from the ground up.
You’ll leave with the skills, the knowledge, and the practical tools to start teaching immediately, and if already experienced, the opportunity to develop your teaching and learn to deliver structured and safe woodcraft sessions. We all know CPD is a great opportunity to spend time with lovely folks, share stories, carve together and learn at the same time!
This is a fully residential, fully catered experience. Your course fee covers:
2 full days of hands-on training
1 night’s private cabin accommodation on site
Locally sourced organic top notch Breakfast, lunch, and dinner both days (the food really is amazing!)
Your Woodcrafters CPD Certificate
The option to obtain your Woodcrafters Licence (see below)
If you’re local and prefer to travel in each day, a commuter option is available — though we’d encourage you to stay. The site is beautiful, the food is exceptional, and the conversations over dinner and the time at this beautiful sanctuary by the River Dart are all worth staying for!
This course is the perfect intro to our flagship ‘facilitator training.’ The facilitator training teaches you how to deliver woodcraft for wellbeing sessions with real therapeutic value. They are about learning the soft skills of how to support groups with diverse backgrounds to access woodcraft, how to create a safe and supportive environment for vulnerable adults and children with varying support needs, and how to run woodcraft for wellbeing sessions as a social prescribing service.
Completing the Woodcrafters Facilitation course gives you the option to join our nationally recognised network of woodcraft practitioners.
As a licensed Woodcrafters facilitator you’ll have permission to use our branding and evidence-backed framework in your own sessions — giving you instant credibility with funders, schools, and health commissioners.
Some participants choose to stay on for the Woodcrafters Facilitator Training (18–20 September) immediately after this course. You can stay the additional night on Thursday 17th for an additional £70 (payable to the venue Ambios) and then join the residential for a full 5 days of training at this beautiful venue
To find out all the course information and to book, please visit Woodcrafters’ site below:
If you have any queries about this course, please contact info@woodcrafters.uk
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