We're experienced facilitators, wilderness teachers, artists, trackers and course leaders, and we love innovative outdoor activities and nature-based experiences. This is us.

Nigel Berman
Nigel founded School of the Wild to combine a love of being in nature with experiences that bring teams and organisations together. Nigel is passionate about meaningful conversations that inspire change and has facilitated team and leadership sessions for a variety of digital agencies, NGO's and corporates. Nigel has spent 25 years leading businesses that communicate different ways of seeing the world. School of the Wild is his way of doing more to help fix the relationship between people and the planet. Read more here.

Charlotte Du Cann
Charlotte DuCann is a writer and editor and part of the core team behind The Dark Mountain Project. She faciliates sessions on re-connection with the living planet. After working as a journalist during the 1980s and travelling in the 90s, she settled in Suffolk and began to document grassroots arts and activism in response to climate change. She is the author of 52 Flowers That Shook My World – A Radical Return to Earth, swims in the North Sea and the River Waveney, and makes a mean nettle pesto. Read more here.

Mike Cutting
Mike is a gardener, forager, ethno-botanist and bushcraft instructor. He has always loved nature and the outdoor life, and has a passion for wild plants and their many uses. Mike is particularly interested in the culinary uses of wild ingredients, as well as their medicinal value and the rich folklore and history surrounding them. Mike is a strong believer in the benefits of our connection to the natural world. 

Rosie Linford
Rosie is a facilitator of outdoor skills and helps to run a local forest school and is also a community gardener. She teaches whittling, fire lighting and shelter-building skills, as well as gardening and nature connection to people of all ages. By including mindfulness at the beginning and end of the sessions, she combines learning a new skill and being in nature, with something deeper and more reflective. 

Jessie Martelhof
Jessie is a qualified Medical Herbalist and forager who leads Wild Medicine walks and herbal medicine-making workshops. Jessie also runs a clinical practice in Brighton supporting people with their health issues using Herbal medicines and nutrition.

Vicky Cuming
Vicky is a life long sea swimmer and subsequently so are most of her friends and family. Vicky is a psychological therapist who works in the NHS. She is also member of Brighton Surf Life Swimming Club and works with adults and children at the club.

Educators and facilitators who've worked with us in the past (and may again):

Alice Bettany
Alice Bettany qualified as a Western herbalist from the college of Naturopathic medicine, London, in 2014.  She has been foraging for food and medicine for many years, her love and passion for wild medicine led her to her current career as a herbalist. Alice grows alot of her own herbs and runs an innovative herb box scheme.  Alice runs regular volunteer days at her herb garden, everyone is welcome! 

Alistair Duncan
Alistair has a passion to connect people with the best in themselves, their communities and the natural world. He brings a distinctive blend of modern personal development approaches and ancient nature-based wisdom to his work. He has a Masters degree in Phenomenology and is a Master Practitioner of a highly somatic, artistic form of Neuro-Lingusitic-Programming (NLP).

Caroline Whiteman
Caroline trained at Schumacher College and Embercombe and is delighted to bring some of this learning to Sussex in celebration of ourselves and this piece of earth. As a passionate advocate of the therapeutic benefits of nature connection and green care, especially night walking, wild swimming and foraging wild foods. Through these elemental practices, we awaken a very old and wise part of ourselves that craves enchantment and simplicity. In essence, when walking attentively through the landscape we are walking ourselves home. 

Feathers
Feathers has been passing on the skills of The Native Way for over ten years. His passions lie not only with the beautiful crafting of the primitive skills for survival but also in the awareness of the teachings, and how the cultural elements of tribal life bring out the gifts in each individual.

He is a member of the Art of Mentoring UK team and has been part of spreading the teachings of this international organisation in many countries

Lucinda Warner
Lucinda is a herbalist and nature lover living and working in East Sussex. She works primarily with local and wildcrafted herbs and can often be found nosing around the hedgerows or blending, brewing and bottling potions in her kitchen. She is a firm believer in herbal medicine as the medicine of the people and loves to share her experience of the healing powers of nature which involve everything from herbal preparations to simply sitting by a tree.

Jo Wren
Jo is a lifelong devotee of nature and the outdoors and embraces the outside world in all its forms – from walking to sailing, bushcraft to foraging. She believes that regular connection with nature not only helps us to feel better but also opens up a world of wonder and awe, never-ending curiosity and a deeper relationship with both the earth and her inhabitants. 
She runs a charity in Brighton called Grow which takes all these principles and uses them to help improve and maintain wellbeing.

Sharon Clifton
Sharon is a trained Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist and an IFEAL (International Foundation of Equine Assisted Learning) Facilitator. As well as running her own private practice she is part of a new integrated Healthcare Service within the NHS bringing Equine Assisted Learning to mainstream healthcare. Sharon has a passion for the mind, body, and spirit connection and creates spaces for development, growth, and empowerment.

Rebecca Card
Rebecca is a qualified and experienced Yoga teacher, Meditation Instructor and Somatic Movement facilitator. She works as a Guide, Facilitator and Ceremonialist of Nature-based Wisdom, Cultural Repair and Soul Initiation and holds Medicine Walks & Council for us and at her base on Dartmoor.
Rebecca believes in the power of ceremony, community and sitting in circle for deep healing and authentic connection. Her passion is in the re~membering of Wholeness and finding creative ways to explore that.

Anniek Verholt
Anniek is a leading expert in the field of therapeutic arts. She has facilitated workshops for organisations in London, Europe, USA and the Far East and offers 1-2-1 sessions in her practice in London and Brighton.
Anniek is also a passionate artist working in mixed media, abstract art and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited around the world and used to uplift and enhance living and work spaces.