The Year Course

Name: The Year Course
SKU: 2639
Price: 3995.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

This inspiring course was developed by Thijmen Apswoude and honed over the last 14 years into the life-changing experience which we’re now bring to the UK for the first time. Delivered by Adam Logan, Sarah Day, Jamie Dakota, and Thijmen Apswoude this course takes place over 10 monthly weekends in the woods.

Living by Nature prides itself on delivering courses our Instructors wished they could have done themselves….had they existed! But they didn’t, and so we pooled our expertise, international experience, passion, and specialists’ skills and created the Year Course. The Year Course has been, and remains, our most popular course. It consists of a whole year of immersing yourself in ancient knowledge, practical Nature skills, forgotten hand crafts, time-told legends, tried and tested survival skills, ancestral wisdom and in-depth Nature immersion. For 10 months you will be able to immerse yourself fully into the teachings of traditional wilderness living-skills and bushcraft. Every month you’ll receive three full-packed days of practical and mental tuition in one of our woodland locations.

During the year, you’ll experience all the weather and seasons. This makes everything you learn ‘real’ and applicable. Imagine 30 days of complete immersion in everything you want to know about life in and with Nature! In addition, there is a focussed craft week where you can choose to study a specialist subject. And finally, to round off this amazing year, a two-week expedition into the wilderness! All together there are 48 days in Nature filled with lessons, new skills and discovery. Are you up for the adventure?

The Journey starts March 2024

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We are honoured to present this course by Living by Nature.

This inspiring course was developed by Thijmen Apswoude and honed over the last 14 years into the life-changing experience which we’re now bring to the UK for a second year following successful UK launch in 2024. Delivered by Adam Logan, Sarah Day, Jamie Dakota, and Thijmen Apswoude this course takes place over 10 monthly weekends in the woods.

The Journey starts March 2025

The Living With Nature Course is a complete package of skills and knowledge which contains really everything! You’ll get to know Nature during all seasons and learn to work with different kinds of tools. You will learn about fire, pottery, tinder, wood, trees, glue, leather tanning, food, animal tracks and much more. Although learning the skills is one thing, you will also naturally grow to be part of a ‘tribe’ with your fellow students. In the evenings we often continue working on our projects while sitting around the campfire. This is the time your Instructor might tell a traditional story or discuss mental and philosophical aspects of survival and traditional life. This is wisdom and knowledge that is often overlooked and forgotten. And finally, when all is made, learned and done, you are invited to go on a two-week long ‘back-in-time expedition’ in which all the skills and hand-made items are going to be used for real. This is the method we use. It is a combination of bushcraft, survival, primitive techniques and our own philosophy. It enables you to stay in Nature for longer periods of time.

Our instructors have years of experience of ‘living by nature’. We are convinced that in order to teach other people something, your own knowledge and skills must be much higher than the level at which you teach. After completing your Year Course you will have so much knowledge and experience that “Living by Nature” will be in your blood also, and you will have surpassed the ‘basic skills’ by far.

For many of the subjects we are going to cover, more is needed than just hearing the theory and doing something once. Every month you will be asked to complete some homework, either to finish a project that we have started, or to prepare something for the following weekend. It takes a lot of training and practice to really master the skills. You have to invest time, and when you do, it infuses your life with self-confidence, and the freedom to call all of Nature your home. Life in Nature requires experience. Practice makes art. That is why this course takes a year; to deeply imbue and consolidate your skills and knowledge.

Curious about what the training entails? Below is a list of skills and activities pertaining to specific weekends. The list is basic. You will be taught many additional aspects, particularly concerning ancestral knowledge, traditional ways of ‘being’, in-depth philosophies and ways of ‘connecting’ to nature. We call these ‘the mental tools’. At Living by Nature, we believe that true Nature grounded skills need to be embraced with your hands as well as in your mind.