Woodlife

Course Progression & Programs

If you would like a progressive learning experience in stages, we recommend you follow our course progression below. It is specifically designed to lead you through easy levels from first steps to advanced. You just attend the courses in the order given below.

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Woodlife Trails Progression Awards

If you would like to progress through our levels and achieve our Woodlife Trails Progression Awards, all you have to do is attend a number of specific courses at each level.

Our courses are specifically designed to lead you through three easy stages from foundation to advanced level. You simply attend a number of courses in a specific order. There is no obligation to attend the courses at set times – nor do you have to complete the levels within a certain timescale.

There are no assessments and no tests. All you have to do is ‘book up and turn up.’ The whole idea is to give you a sound, structured and graduated learning experience, which will hopefully stay with you for the rest of your life.

Registration for the Progression Award is free (register below) and you only pay for the courses you attend.

Bring the award portfolio with you (example below) and we will update it – or you can keep it keep it online. The portfolio will track your progress and you will receive a certificate and special award after each stage, which is a symbol of your achievement.

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Level One – Foundation: This isn’t just for beginners – it is designed to set you off in the right direction and put you right on track towards an awareness and integration with the natural environment. You may already have a good knowledge of the outdoors but this will open another chapter for you. It will provide you with a good foundation to become a naturalist and tracker using bushcraft and awareness skills as a vehicle.

Level One courses: (You must attend all three courses to achieve the the Level One Progression Award)

Countryside and Woodland Awareness Course

Wilderness Camp Course

Woodland Craft Course

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Level 2 – Intermediate: We now go deeper and explore your own capabilities and senses as well as developing your skills as a tracker and naturalist. Our immersion course will put you closer to wildlife than you ever thought possible.

Level 2 courses: (You must attend all three courses to achieve the Level Two Progression Award)

Wilderness Immersion Course,

Woodland Tracker Course

Advanced Bushcraft Courses

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Level 3 – Advanced: This stage consolidates all your learning. To achieve the award you will attend a longer course where your skills and knowledge will be developed even further and will just about cement all the learning and take you to a new levels of awareness and skills to appreciate the Natural World most probably for the rest of your life.

Level 2 courses: (You must attend all these courses to achieve the Level Three Progression Award)

Forest Tracker Course

A week-long uk-based Expedition

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Further development – From now on it will be up to you; but we will always be on hand to provide you with advice and further development.

Have a look at an example Course Progression Award Portfolio v1 (1.5 mb pdf)

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Progression Award Registration Form

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Diploma

If you are really serious about bushcraft, tracking and the natural world, read about our proposed Diploma Award.

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Intructor

We call our potential instructors ‘Guides’. Once you have completed our Diploma award and we think you have the teaching potential to become a Guide, we will offer you a place on our Guide Training Programme. More information here.

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