Secondary School Workshops and Programmes
Workshops & Programmes for Secondary Schools
Secondary school workshops and programmes take a holistic approach to well-being, learning, and personal development. We do this through Creative & Art-Based Workshops, Compassionate Mindfulness and Learn to Meditate Workshops, Heritage and Nature Connection Programmes.
We provide students with opportunities to explore their creativity, authenticity, encourage curiosity, develop resilience and self agency, learn life long practical wellbeing skills and participate in meaningful connection with themselves, their peers, and the world around them. These immersive experiences nurture self expression, mindfulness, peer building, reflective practices and inspire connection and celebration of culture, heritage and nature.
Workshops & Programmes
Mandala Workshops
Introducing students to the calming, meditative art of mandala creation. Students will be guided through a meditation, create their own mandala, learn how to integrate an mandala art self-care practice into their lives, self reflect and share experience and close the workshop with a sensory tea ritual using a local native plant and learn the medicinal benefits.
Long Term Creative Wellbeing Programmes
Our long-term weekly creative programs integrate art-making as a powerful tool for transformation, personal growth, innovation, inspiration, and problem-solving, empowering students to grow and thrive both personally and creatively.
We create space for young people to pause, reflect, and explore their interests, creative potential, joys and discover how creativity can inspire positive change and new solutions in both personal life and society. These programmes equip students with practical tools to support wellbeing, build resilience, develop self awareness and place value on carving out personal time for creativity.
By engaging in slow and mindful creative practices, students experience how creativity can enhance well-being, build resilience, and serve as a powerful tool for self-expression, self agency and expansive thinking.
Creative Heritage Workshops & Programmes
Creative Heritage workshops can take place in the classroom or outdoors in nature. Workshops are immersive and aim to enhance young peoples lives through reconnecting to to the local plants and trees that grow around them, their folklore, sustainable practices and traditional knowledge and practices such as herbal medicine, wild food, Irish seasonal festivals and celebrations.
Students will also engage with creative activities inspired by nature, explore art making as a way to connect to local landscape and participate in crafts and rituals that support well-being and developing appreciation and connection to the earth. These workshops provide an opportunity to rediscover and preserve heritage practices, .
Young people are exposed to learning new skills, developing curiosity and respect for nature, the importance of preservation of heritage and cultural traditions, strengthening their connection to the past, and exploring how these traditions can be revived and woven into modern life for their long-term well-being humans and the environment.
Nature and Environmental Connection Workshops & Programmes
Nature Based workshops and programmes for teens are based on the Forest School Ethos, which is rooted in the belief that connecting with nature provides transformative learning experiences that nurture holistic development and well-being.
We provide creative ways for individuals to connect and learn directly from their local landscape, cultivate mindfulness, learn life skills, craft traditional herbal medicines, encourage earth stewardship, foster a life long love of nature and helping young people thrive both and form a deep respect and appreciation for earth.
Our motivation is to enable people to easily connect with nature in their local areas and communities. Knowing the names, traditions and folklore of our local native plants, trees and wildlife connects us to the present moment and a sense of greater belonging.
