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I work as a specialist outdoor educator and trainer across the whole of the UK and Scandinavia. Individual remote-area guiding, outdoor education project management, and instructing survival skills fills much of my time. I am researching accidents on educational and youth organisation visits which has resulted in keeping/maintaining the UK's only Register covering 34 years. I act as a consultant and adviser to schools and industry on training and education outside the classroom. However I spend as much time working in a one-to-one situation as with groups. After 40 years of outdoor work I still have a passion for being out.
The following courses are currently available:
Survival Training from 1 hour to 2 weeks - all levels
Mountaincraft: all UK, Norway, Sweden, & Iceland
Wilderness Trekking - western and northern Sweden
4x4 Overland 'Journeys' throughout Iceland and Arctic Norway
Basic to Advanced Hillcraft Courses : Dartmoor, Northumberland, Brecon Beacons, & The Dark Peak
Compass Navigation Workshops
Campcraft / Backpacking Skills inc. Duke of Ed. Award Expeditions
Special Educational Needs inc. Self Esteem Courses
Wilderness Treatment Courses for Troubled Youth: UK & Sweden
'Introduction to Teaching Outdoor Education' Workshops & Courses for Teachers
'Educational Visits Safety' Workshops for Teachers
Geography Fieldwork KS2-5
Schools Programmes KS2-5
Residential & Day Challenge Programmes for Uniformed Organisations
Military / Infantry Skills Workshops
First Aid - from Basic to Wilderness / Remote Area / Advanced
Leadership Programmes for Industry
Lone-Worker Safety Management Courses
Environmental Project Management
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Instructing Micro Navigation Masterclass
Instructing Wilderness Emergency Procedures on a Search/Rescue Course & Leading Summer School for Gifted & Talented Secondary School Pupils
Instructing Scout Leaders and Commissioners Survival Skills Course
If you are interested in learning more about any of the topics shown in the courses advertised above - or you just want to enquire about a special idea that you are enthused about, and you think I can help, then do get in touch. Most one-to-one masterclasses are held during Summer, from local woodland to the north of Scotland. These do tend to change peoples' view of the natural world.
Some clients 'just' use my services for what might be called 'theory' sessions eg mapwork skills, first aid tutoring, expedition advice, ropecraft, risk-assessment lectures etc. before they go off on their own 'expedition'.
In addition to my technical specialities of mountaineering, survival skills, wilderness emergency medical care, and (at Doctoral level) risk management, my attendant and auxiliary skills and qualifications include meteorology (qualified to teach to former Board of Trade 'Ocean Yacht Masters' standard) geology: have led 'A' level geology fieldwork in southern Iceland; anthropology: former Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute having done post-graduate research on the Inuit.
Motivational talks, technical guidance, envisioning youth and adults are all - and an ever increasing - part my remit.
If you have a query - or you want to learn from an outdoor specialist....contact me.
contact me at
07940 701468