Name: Earth Education Workshop
Start: 2025-03-15T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-15T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Ham Lands in Richmond Borough

Earth Education Workshop
South West London on March 15th 2025
This workshop will take place on Ham Lands in Richmond Borough. It is for any educators interested in developing deeper relationships to and understandings of the natural world and the ecological systems of our planet.

For details of about the workshop please contact Maria Sprostranova of Greenwise People at [email protected] or phone on 07737 644 119
Earth education is the process of helping people of all ages live more harmoniously and joyously with the natural world.
This is done through:
• developing and strengthening people’s understandings of the major ecological systems and communities that support life on the planet
• helping people develop deep and lifelong emotional attachments to the earth and its life
• helping people ‘live more lightly’ by reducing their impact on the earth
IEE achieves these aims by designing and developing carefully crafted, dynamic, fun learning adventures. Earth education programmes are now run throughout the world at environmental and outdoor centres in over 12 countries
What you will gain: from this workshop
• a clear understanding of earth education and its differences from much of environmental education
• first hand experience of several outdoor and indoor activities
• specific ways for helping learners improve their relationship with the Earth
• guidelines for leading earth education activities and programmes
• tools for developing programmes in your own setting
• an overview of the earth education programmes and materials

The day starts at 9.00 and finishes at 5.00 with a number of sessions including;
• the whys, what’s and ways of earth education
• Leadership guidelines
• Programme Design and Conceptual experiences
and a number of activities that will help your learners improve their relationship with the planet
• throwaway planet - a classroom based motivating activity looking at waste and our effects on other species
• an earth walk - a light refreshing walk in the natural world focussing on the senses
• a conceptual encounter dealing with energy flow
• an immersing experience
• and a solitude activity.
• There is also a session looking at current earth education programmes and materials available
Jon Cree is an associate to the International Institute for Earth Education. He has been an international trainer for over 30 years, with almost 45 years of experience of running earth education programmes.