How our nature-mindful training can help your teaching career

27th August, 2025
by Guest contributor | 3 Min Read
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Imagine burnishing your existing mindfulness-teaching or therapist skills with techniques of nature-mindfulness...

Ollie Frame is course co-leader on our 6-night Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Nature Connection training (MBNCT) course.

Here he describes the benefits of this course (which is a retreat as well), for you and your career.

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The benefits of joining this course

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

So what do people really love about this training course?

Well, the feedback we get is that people really love that it's a training course, but at the same time, it's a retreat.

So you're doing something really useful in terms of your professional development, but you're also doing meditations and nature connection practices and mindful movement in a really beautiful setting.

So you're coming back feeling really inspired and uplifted and better equipped in terms of the work that you offer. But you're also coming back rested and nourished and centred.

There's a real emphasis on experiential learning.

So before learning to teach any of the practices, you get to experience them from a point of view of a participant.

So you get to rest back and be guided and be led, which feels really lovely. And then you get to explore how you can incorporate that into the work that you do.

And of course, you get some experience of how that feels as well.

People say that there's, you know, it's a really generous programme in terms of all the practices and the content that's offered.

And people say there's a really good balance in terms of how the course is taught.

So there's a mixture of meditation, poetry, group work, pair work, writing, individual reflection.

And of course, as with all of the retreats that happen here at Sharpham, people are really blown away by the deliciousness of the food and just how stunning the location is.

So those are just some of the things that people really love about this mindfulness-based nature connection training.

Earn 45 hours of CPD credits on this course

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

So we describe this course as a CPD training.

So I thought I'd just say a little bit about what that means and about how this could be useful to you in the work that you do.

So CPD, which stands for Continuing Professional Development, is ongoing study that you do that helps you keep your work alive and fresh and up to date and also helps you keep your work growing and evolving.

And it's a requirement in many fields, but especially if you're a member of a professional body. So whether you're a therapist or a mindfulness teacher or a yoga teacher or a support worker or a group leader or an outdoor adventure instructor or something like that.

On this course, you're going to learn a whole range of practices and techniques and theory and content which expand and enhance the work that you already offer.

And by attending this course, you're going to earn 45 hours of CPD credits. And what that means is that if you're a counsellor or a therapist, for example, this is already well above the 30 hours that you have to do each year.

And the really good thing is that whilst you're accumulating all these CPD credits, you're having an amazing time.

You're in a really outstandingly beautiful natural setting.

You're doing nourishing, enjoyable, restful practices and meditations.

And then you're connecting with like-minded folk.

So I reckon that's a pretty good deal, all in all, and I'm really looking forward to seeing you there.