Our environmental training courses deepen your knowledge of natural landscapes while supporting your personal and professional growth. Recognised by Mountain Training, they provide valuable Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for outdoors instructors and leaders. Combined innovative teaching methods and hands-on engaging activities our courses and workshops bring learning to life in a meaningful and practical way.
Develop specialist knowledge through individual courses or options that combine and blend understanding of landscapes, ecology and wildlife.
Whether you’re an ecologist wishing to develop field identification skills, or a mountain leader or mountaineering instructors wanting to learn more about the environment you work in, our courses are perfectly suited for your needs.
We look at the mountain environment from its geological history to its vegetation and the human influences that shape it.
Improve your identification skills of rock types and habitats and take a closer look at mountain wildlife. And learn engaging and interactive activities which you can use with your own clients to promote and explain the natural environment.
This workshop is an introduction to regional glaciation of Snowdonia & North Wales. North Wales is a post-glacial environment with spectacular glacial features.
We will identify and explain the formation of these features both large and small scale including features of erosion, transportation and deposition.
The itinerary on the day will depend upon weather conditions and may include a lowland glacial environment.
This workshop focusses on improving your outdoor photography skills and techniques.
The small group course gives you the opportunity to learn about nature and the environment whilst improving your photographic techniques, composition and creating beautiful images.
If you want to recognise and identify mountain and alpine flowers, this course is for you. Learn about and discover specialised plants in Snowdonia that are usually found in the Alps and Artic environments.
You’ll acquire the skills and techniques to successfully find and identify them.
We also look at their unique ecology and explore how they adaptations and survive in North Wales.
This one-day course will give you confidence to identify alpine flowers. It aims to demystify the jargon behind flower identification books and make them more accessible.
The field site has wonderful limestone floral diversity. It is an easily accessible and has good altitudinal and habitat diversity.
The course will also look at the broader environment to develop your understanding of alpine geology, tectonic activity and land use.
If you are a trekking guide then this course will make you become a more informed leader. It will also prepare you for an IML assessment and provide continued professional development CPD points for members of British Association of International Mountain Leaders.
The Lake District is an important plant area where specialised plants, more at home in the European Alps and Arctic tundra still exist. The course will help you to recognise and identify these plants.
We will be visiting botanically rich and diverse sites where exceptionally rare plant communities of high conservation value live. We will look at the ecology of the mountain environment and the major influences affecting vegetation such as geology, agriculture and water.
The workshop will also help develop your skills and confidence in identifying plants in the field.
The Gwydir Forest has a superb range of trees. These include natives as well as trees that come from all over the world. This workshop looks at the characteristics of both and their identification features.
This one-day course will give you confidence to identify and talk about trees in winter. It is designed to develop your understanding of the natural world, as well as the wider environmental issues surrounding forestry, ecology and land use.
