These sessions are all about improving sensory awareness and improving appreciation for nature. Having had vast experience of both working in formal and informal education including much outdoor and environmental education I have found that sensory activities and working with wood not only proved the most popular activities but also found those to be the most beneficial to the learning, personal development and well-being of participants. 

I am not alone in this, when asked what was his favourite subject to teach, the wilderness survival expert Ray Mears replied that he took the greatest reward by far from teaching the use of our senses. His reason was because it 

“underpins every other aspect of bushcraft, connects each branch of the study, can find daily application wherever we are and has beyond all else the profound capacity to improve the quality of our experience of life.” Ray Mears, We are Nature: How to reconnect with the wild, 2021