Growing Roots: Creating Sustainable Adventure Experiences with Trees (study from anywhere)

Course description

For further information please see the Growing Roots course information page.‘Growing Roots' is a course to inspire people to collaborate with nature and develop their personal potential while running a rural enterprise. It explores how to design innovative experiences with trees which can provide an alternative, sustainable income while respecting and enhancing the forests and woodlands around you.If you care deeply about the environment and want to find a way of working in real harmony with nature – giving back as much as you take from the countryside – ‘Growing Roots' will help you develop your skills and business while nurturing your personal connection with green spaces.Participants will learn about eco-economy and transformative ‘slow tourism' in a way that benefits them and their community. Maybe you're a crofter, run a bed and breakfast or represent a community-based tourism or land ownership group seeking to develop well-being experiences for visitors while also caring for the land. If so, this programme would suit you.There's an increasing demand globally for ‘soft' adventures – experiences which encourage people to enhance their personal development while immersing themselves in a new learning environment. ‘Growing Roots' offers the ideal opportunity to start designing soft adventure experiences in synergy with people and the planet.Over eight weekly evening sessions, online, lecturer and mountain writer Dr. Tamara Griffiths with a variety of guest tutors will support you to: Discover a range of experiences – including sustainable bushcraft without ‘using' trees, forest food gardening, woodland crofting, crafts, and forest bathing - that allow people and the environment to prosper simultaneously and equally. Gain new insights to strengthen your business, your community and yourself. Understand trees as sentient beings and how to collaborate with the environment. Understand the context of rural livelihoods today through discussions including the multifunctional countryside and the experience economy. Learn how experiences with trees can lend themselves to working with NGOs, third-age care, local community groups and schools.

Learning outcome

There’s an increasing demand globally for ‘soft’ adventures – experiences which encourage people to enhance their personal development while immersing themselves in a new learning environment. ‘Growing Roots’ offers the ideal opportunity to start designing soft adventure experiences in synergy with people and the planet.