photo: Jonny Wilson www.subsculptures.com
About us
School of the Wild is a nature school of skills and of thought, for people and organisations.
What we do
We run unique classes and short courses, campfires for leaders, and team building and away day activities for organisations in the woods and wild spaces of Brighton and Sussex.
Everything we do is designed to pull you out of cities and reconnect you with the wild and each other.
Our programmes fuse creative and practical skills, with facilitated campfire conversations, walkshops, and mindfulness, to nourish and strengthen your connection to the land, to yourself, to others, and to have fun doing it.
Why it's good
There is something really special about talking around a fire, or learning to cook wild food that you've just foraged, or sharing a silent night walk with senses heightened to the sounds and smells of nature.
Nature is the great leveller and can bring you together in a way that doesn't happen indoors, plus it's a big antidote to the stressful effects of the modern world: it's life enhancing, opens your senses, and puts you more in touch with your body and those parts of you that feel and imagine, and it helps restore your bond with the earth.
Being in the outdoors and opening to what's going on around you affects what's happening on the inside, changing your perspective, making it easier to meet life’s challenges, to find creative solutions and new directions, and to feel more in tune with yourself and the natural world.
School of the Wild is a nature school of skills and of thought, for people and organisations.
What we do
We run unique classes and short courses, campfires for leaders, and team building and away day activities for organisations in the woods and wild spaces of Brighton and Sussex.
Everything we do is designed to pull you out of cities and reconnect you with the wild and each other.
Our programmes fuse creative and practical skills, with facilitated campfire conversations, walkshops, and mindfulness, to nourish and strengthen your connection to the land, to yourself, to others, and to have fun doing it.
Why it's good
There is something really special about talking around a fire, or learning to cook wild food that you've just foraged, or sharing a silent night walk with senses heightened to the sounds and smells of nature.
Nature is the great leveller and can bring you together in a way that doesn't happen indoors, plus it's a big antidote to the stressful effects of the modern world: it's life enhancing, opens your senses, and puts you more in touch with your body and those parts of you that feel and imagine, and it helps restore your bond with the earth.
Being in the outdoors and opening to what's going on around you affects what's happening on the inside, changing your perspective, making it easier to meet life’s challenges, to find creative solutions and new directions, and to feel more in tune with yourself and the natural world.
What to expect
All of our programmes and campfires are participatory, and you'll be led by experienced and inspiring wilderness guides, artists, trackers, and workshop leaders who'll show you new skills, experiences, and understandings.
Read more about our team here.
So get away from your screen and join us in the wild, alongside the trees, the foxes, and the crows.
See you in the woods.
Nigel Berman
Founder & Chief Wild Officer
…the old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence.
