Helping you become the best bushcraft practitioner you can be

Bushcraft Instructor Mentoring Scheme

Designed for Outdoor Professionals who want to take their general understanding and competence of Bushcraft to another level. Candidates will have attended an approved  Bushcraft Competency course or equivalent.

The overall aim of the scheme is to develop your skills and competence to a place where you have a real sense of ownership of each of the key skills. As a result, you will be able to confidently deliver and adapt your sessions to fit different subjects and client requirements.

Part 1   £725

Taken over 4 sets of 2 days each key subject is expanded both in depth and width in order for you to adapt to a variety of scenarios.

Unit 1

Day 1 Shelter frame designs. Variety of materials plus various refinements

Day 2 Fire Lighting, reading the landscape to find dry material. Confident use of various tinder and kindling. Developing your understanding of trees

Unit 2

Day 3 Confident use of the Bow Drill. Comparing baseboards and drills, creating an efficient set. Hand Drill and Pump Drill basics

Day 4 Effective Water Filtering. Various materials. Splitting Wood regardless of size. Using Axes

Unit 3

Day 5 Wild Food and Wilderness Cookery course (see website)

Day 6 Additional sessions to fit the IOL Bushcraft Level 3 training modules

Unit 4

Day 7 Natural Cordage- various materials for a variety of set tasks/scenarios

Day 8 Bow Drill using natural cordage. Additional session to fit IOL Level 3 units

Dates for 2023/24: December 2-3, January 13-14, April 13-14, June 29-30

Please contact me directly to book.

Part 2   £450

During this next phase, you have an overall set of criteria to work towards.  The emphasis is on you requesting from me what you require to complete it. Many of you will be getting experience in your professional work, however, it is typical that you won’t work with the variety of clients needed to fulfil the experience required. Along with helping out on courses and sessions, you will be able to tailor this experience in order to get the real confidence you need to develop your own line of work.

You will also develop a portfolio of evidence that will help clarify your level of first-hand experience.

Please contact me directly to book.