Ditch the office clothes and prepare to have an adventure.
For reward days, teambuilding sessions, or client outings with a difference, we run a variety of themed sessions with activities to develop teamwork, problem solving, communication, trust, creative thinking and more.
Without a flat white or frappuccino in sight, no Google or YouTube to help, it’s time to move outside your comfort zone, embrace the outdoors and learn some new skills.
”There are lots of opportunities for developing team skills, and we also aim to have a little bit of fun.
Challenge Days
Challenge days are day-long exercises incorporating a degree of instruction in new skills with scenario-based challenges. There are lots of opportunities for developing team skills, and we also aim to have a little bit of fun.
The Survival Triangle Challenge
Can you master the basic skills of the survival triangle? Fire, Water, Shelter.
• Fire: learn how to find fuel, lay a fire, then start it without matches
• Water: try to make a primitive water purification device
• Shelter: practise building a shelter to keep you and your team safe, warm and dry.
Course duration: 1 day
Orientation Challenge
Learn how to read the landscape and navigate using a basic map and compass. Then find your way through the woods on our orientation course, facing a team challenge at every checkpoint. No phones or GPS allowed!
Knife and tool skills
Learn how to use basic cutting tools such as the bow saw, hand axe or billhook and bushcraft knife to make basic items. Then then try to whittle a wooden spoon using a traditional crook-knife.
First Aid Challenge
Learn basic outdoor first aid techniques then apply them in a scenario-based challenge. Can you keep calm and keep your casualties alive and cared for until help arrives?
Water
The importance of water cannot be overestimated – we cannot survive for more than a few days without it. If you find yourself stranded in the wilderness, getting water that is clean enough to drink will be one of your top priorities!
This covers:
• the importance of clean water
• water purification techniques
• building a simple water filter
Fire
Starting, using and extinguishing a fire safely is one of the most fundamental human skills, yet it is one with which most of us are unfamiliar. Developing an understanding of how to start and manage fire safely requires the development of specific skills, fine motor ability, risk management and self-reliance. It can also require persistence!
This covers:
• What is fire?
• How it works: the combustion triangle
• Fire safety
• Methods of ignition, ancient and modern
• Building a fire: types of fuel and fire structure
• Using fire
• Extinguishing a fire and responsible use
Shelter building
Finding or making a shelter is one of the three elements of the basic Survival Triangle. Almost everyone has made a den in the woods, so how hard can it be to make a safe shelter that will keep you warm and dry, potentially overnight?
This covers:
• The function of shelter
• Location choice
• Designs of shelter
• Building materials
• Tool use
• Safe construction methods
• Simple knots and fastenings
Orientation Challenge
Getting from place to place successfully is a basic requirement of daily life, but today most of us rely entirely on technological aids to find our way around. But with such reliance on mobile technology, what can we do when it fails (poor signal, low battery, dropped and broken, or lost)?
Being able to use a map with confidence is a crucial life skill, and can give people the reassurance to explore their world. It also develops spatial reasoning, communication and team skills. Our orientation training is delivered by qualified Mountain Leaders and covers a complete range of navigational skills.
Course content
During the course we look at:
• Understanding maps – scales, rights of way, grid references
• Measuring distances – timing and pacing
• Using a compass – map orientation, taking and walking a bearing
• Following a bearing in poor visibility
• Contour recognition – understanding the shape of the land
• Route-finding skills – using natural features, hazard avoidance
• Route planning, as well as
• An overview of how to best use smartphone GPS/maps when available!
Course duration: 1 day
Tool skills
Tool use is one of the characteristics we use to define intelligence, but can you use the simple tools that our ancestors mastered? This course provides a basic introduction to using simple primitive tools outdoors safely and effectively.
We will learn the basics of using cutting and striking tools safely and effectively to make simple useful objects such as a tent peg and a mallet.
Course content
During the course we look at:
• Principles of safety
• Basic first aid
• Knife grips and techniques
• Choice of material
• Whittling, stop cuts and batoning
• Knife care
• working cooperatively
• using a bill-hook, hand axe, knife and mallet
• using a crook knife
Course duration: 1 day
First Aid and Outdoor First Aid
As well as covering the basics of First Aid, this course is designed specifically to focus on scenarios that could be encountered during outdoor activities and the specific skills and techniques they would demand. The course is delivered by a professional First Aid trainer, using active participation methods, and concentrates on being challenging but fun, with role-play scenarios and lots of hands-on practice.
Course content
The course can include the following topics:
• What is First Aid?
• Triage
• Communication and casualty care
• Coping in an emergency
• Primary survey
• Resuscitation
• Recovery position
• Bleeding
• Shock (medical and emotional)
• Bites and stings
• Burns and scalds
• Heat exhaustion
• Hypothermia
• Bone, muscle and joint injuries
Course duration: 1 day
Why use Wild Learning?
Experienced and qualified professionals
Wild Learning only use qualified professionals (Forest School Level 3 or equivalent) to lead our activity days. Our leaders also have enhanced DBS certification and REC2 Specialist Outdoor First Aid qualification.
They are all experienced in leading groups of people in the outdoor environment and make sure everyone participates, is engaged and is having fun.
We have been working with school classes and with groups of adults for over five years, as well as running adventure days for children in the school holidays and half-terms, welcoming over 8,000 children a year.
Robust risk assessment, procedures and policies
We have licenses to operate in multiple sites across London and the South East.
We carry out an annual risk assessment of every site where we operate, as well as conducting a daily risk assessment of the site before every session we run. We have comprehensive policies and procedures in place that include Risk Assessment, Health and Safety, Confidentiality, Child Protection and Safeguarding.
We also have Public Liability insurance.
Adult / Corporate Day booking
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