Children explore the shapes, scents, and textures of the land around them, beginning to recognise the trees and plants that share their space.

Under calm guidance, children practise creating and tending a small flame, discovering patience, focus, and respect for nature’s elements.

Working together to build a simple base or shelter helps children problem solve, communicate, and take quiet pride in shared effort.

Through movement, play, and reflection, children begin to notice how feelings rise and settle, learning to recognise what calm and connection feel like in their own bodies.

Using simple tools safely invites focus, care, and a growing trust in their own ability to shape and create.

Children learn outdoor skills with respect for the site, no litter, no damage, just clean ground left behind.

With guidance, children shape and smooth natural materials, discovering patience and the quiet satisfaction of making something with their own hands.

Moments spent with the ponies help children sense the power of calm connection, learning through touch, movement, and the quiet language of trust.

Knot work encourages persistence and curiosity, showing how small, steady actions can hold strength and purpose.

Through still moments outdoors, breathing, noticing, listening, children begin to feel how nature steadies the mind.

Caring for a pony’s coat and mane builds gentleness and trust, a shared rhythm that settles both child and animal.

Group tasks become spaces for connection, learning how to support, listen, and celebrate one another through action rather than instruction.

Participants develop foundational photography skills taught by a photographer with over 20 years’ experience, using the camera, phone, or tablet as a calm, regulating focus to observe and record their time at Wild Mane.

Through the optional online hub, participants can access short tutorials, upload their photographs, and build a steady record of their learning, giving them a structured way to practise skills between sessions. Participants can even watch our badger sett and ponies though streaming.

Participants learn how to track the wildlife around our badger sett, using cameras, and guided observation to build a safe and respectful understanding of the animals that share the land.

Participants learn how to track the wildlife around our badger sett, using cameras, and guided observation to build a safe and respectful understanding of the animals that share the land.

Conversations at Wild Mane unfold naturally, led by the children themselves, giving them space to talk in their own time while we guide the discussion with calm, age-appropriate prompts that keep it safe, grounded, and meaningful.