Two days exploring play structures with one of the most respected voices in UK forest school practice. Jon Cree was founding chair of the Forest School Association and co-author, with Marina Robb, of The Essential Guide to Forest School and Nature Pedagogy. He's spent decades thinking about play, risk and how adults can hold space for both without getting in the way.

Across the weekend we'll be building swings, ladders and platforms together, working through the practical skills involved as well as the theory underneath them: play frames, play cues, the ludic process, and what it actually looks like to support play rather than direct it. Expect hands on building, proper discussion, and time to get your hands dirty with structures you can take straight back to your own setting.

Saturday night we bring the group together to build a sweatlodge using a hazel bender structure, and use it together as a closing ritual for the day.

Dates
Saturday 12th–Sunday 13th December 2027. Saturday 9:30am to Sunday 2:30pm.

Pricing
£180 – choose this ticket if budgeting is rarely a concern when accessing training, or if an organisation is paying for this course on your behalf.
£150 – choose this ticket if this reflects a fair price for where you're at right now.
£120 – choose this ticket if budgeting or financial choices are often the barrier when it comes to accessing training.

Camping
Overnight camping is included as standard with your ticket. Please let us know when booking whether you'll be pitching a tent, or need one of our layby spaces outside the woods for a camper van or converted vehicle.

Food
Saturday lunch and Sunday lunch are both cooked communally as part of the weekend, so there'll be time built in to prep and eat together. Saturday dinner is sorted too, fish and chips ordered in from the local chip shop and delivered straight to the woods.

What to bring
As well as your usual forest and camping kit, bring something you feel comfortable wearing in the sweatlodge itself.

Travel
Camping's covered, but if you'd rather stay somewhere with a bed and a shower, a travel guide with nearby glamping, hotels and transport options is here: www.children-of-the-forest.com/immersion-week-accomodation