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A busy end to a week, Friday, Animal Therapy & 1:1 support session before driving to Manchester. Saturday, Elders in the Woods, training with The Therapeutic Forest. Sunday, drive home & finish my Animal Therapy Diploma! #Forestschoolpractitioner #Animaltherapy #Certifiedoutdoormentalhealth

Just one lovely day in a very busy week which hasn’t even finished yet! @outdooredchat #forestschool #earlyyearsmatters #getthechildrenoutside

Saw lots of gorgeous Butterflies on our Mindful Walk in Kings Wood yesterday but this one definitely stopped to pose for us! #forestschooladventures #mindfulwalking #noticethesmallthings #naturetherapy #peacockbutterfly

A wonderful day at Forest School, time with some funny small humans, a bit of Animal Therapy and gardening…. Back home and so happy to have some surprisingly close interaction with Soozie my Jumping Spider #ForestSchool #curiouschildren #AnimalTherapy #gardening #naturetherapy

Still time to sign your young person up for this if you are in the Surrey area 😊 #animaltherapy #animalcare #wellbeing #mindfulness #empathy #socialskills

When we took the Kingswood Shetlands & Friends, Therapy Animals to UCA Epsom 😊 #studentenrichmentday #animaltherapy #mindfulness #wellbeing #empathy #friendship #connection

Working on Saturday is a pleasure, I get to be a child again 😊 #forestschooladventures #mindfulwalkingforchildren #denbuilding #foraging #naturephotography

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Such a happy Forest School session at Blossom Years Childcare, Chislehurst. I got time to work on a new Nature Habitat and notice signs of Spring & curious treasures to fill my own emotional bucket! #Forestschooladventures #EYFS #SENinclusion #Naturetherapy #Animaltherapy #Appreciatethesmallstuff

A special moment at Forest School today. The lovely horses in a field next to us like to interact with the children. A little boy rushed to find me, worried the horse would eat the bale twine, this is the moment he handed it to me for safety Today he turned 3! #animaltherapy #empathy #childled

Well we did come home and I think they were pleased to see us! #schnauzerlove #cockapoo 🥰

But when are you coming home? #schnauzer #cockapoo

Yay! 😁 just spotted in Iceland 🐋 #humpbackwhale #iceland #bucketlistevent #happyvalentinesday

Keeping play alive. Thank you to everyone who continues to keep play at the centre of practice. Children’s curiosity and joy is so important. Play and learning has a place, holistic development too. Let’s collectively champion a true child centred approach, that is play. #PlayMatters

While trotting across the frozen river, this coyote paused to look back at me for a moment 😊 #mammals 🌿

Just having a laugh to myself remembering the nightmare we went through with our eldest when he reached 17 & was going through that horrible period with us…. #troubledteens #familyproblems

Visited a Care Home with the Small Therapy Animals from Kings Wood Shetlands & Friends this morning. A lovely end to the week where we got to chat with some very lovely humans & carers. royalalfredseafarers.co.uk/about-us/bel... www.facebook.com/kingswoodshe... #animaltherapy

Updating my profile before heading out for another exciting Forest School session at Blossom Years Childcare, Imperial Way! #forestschool #naturetherapy #mindfulwalking #animaltherapy

Enjoyed a Mindful Walking session in Kings Wood, Sanderstead this morning & managed to avoid being hit by a catapult arrow! 😂 #forestschooladventure #naturecrafting #mindfulwalkingwithchildren

When your Schnauzer’s a bit broken…. #sleepyschnauzer

It took all my negotiation skills & a lot of gentle persuasion to avoid this beautiful rock being ‘stolen’ during our Mindful Walk in Kings Wood, Sanderstead today! #forestschooladventure #mindfulwalkingwithchildren

Therapy Animal session at Castle Hill Academy today. We enjoyed putting on a little fashion show while the children were at lunch. It made the humans laugh although Toothless, Cupid & Hope didn’t seem very impressed! #animaltherapy #laughtertherapy #crochetcrafting #SENinclusion

Seems like someone decided I needed some 1:1 Animal Therapy this morning when I was setting up for Forest School #forestschooladventure #naturetherapy #animaltherapy

Limiting materials does not put a limit on your imagination. Everything you see here is made from recycled cardboard tubes. www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #art #sculpture #creativity

This Robin is always about when I’m in the woods but keeps its distance when my 1:1 Forest School children are near. It comes much closer when I’m alone & getting ready to go home 🥰 #Forestschooladventure #robins #naturetherapy #mindfulwalking

Eyebrow envy…… not! The Cockapoo’s a charlatan, the Schnauzer wants to be in an 80’s band 🙄 #schnauzers #cockapoos #moneyback #eyebrow-disaster #flockofseagulls

Fri-yay’s Forest School session with the Blossoms was mostly about bouncing, climbing, throwing yourself on the floor & laughing. Absolutely wonderfully bonkers! #Forestschooladventures #EYFS #naturetherapy #resilientchildren #getchildrenoutside

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Looking for something different for your animal loving young person? Please take a look at this new Equestrian Course taking place in Caterham, Surrey very soon #horsetherapy #lifeskills www.facebook.com/share/p/18JJ...

Our first 2025 adventure took us to the O2 to see www.theo2.co.uk/events/detai... The show was amazing, our table was on the stage 😬 Highly recommended, we didn’t expect the food to be good but it was delicious 😋 #experiencesnotgifts #datenight #contortionist #Abba

I'm doing a little experiment by posting this on here and on Twitter simultaneously. (Please don't judge me, authors also need to earn money!) Currently #bluesky is easily winning on reposts/retweets in relation to my number of followers. 😊😘

Someone likes leftover crunchy snow! Shouldn’t be surprised, when he hears the freezer door open at, ‘gin o’clock’, he comes trotting in for his ice tax, EVERY time! 🙄 ❤️ #schnauzerproblems #lovemydog

🧵 1/ Wednesdays are Animal Therapy sessions at Castle Hill Academy, New Addington. One of the students got cross with me previously because I wouldn’t let him bend Toothless’s tail. I was forgiven this session, we sat with Toothless & just admired his fabulousness. #animaltherapy #SENinclusion

And breathe! We were certainly kept busy last year, it was crazy at times. Incredibly rewarding but hard work and of course there are always heartbreaking stories and incidents to manage alongside all the wonder. What does 2025 hold for us I wonder? #Shropshire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

He thinks we won’t notice he’s on the bed if he keeps still 🙄 He’s not allowed on the bed because he’s smelly & he steals our socks and underwear! #cockapoodrama

We had a very short Forest School session yesterday afternoon because it was so cold but we managed to feed the crows & magpies some out of date mince pies which made everyone happy! #forestschooladventures #getthekidsoutside #caringforwildlife #resilientchildren

This child is amazingly bright & loves being outside. He’s very shy if anyone try’s to speak to him but recently he’s been asking me to film him for his mum if we do anything exciting. #forestschooladventures #mindfulwalking #naturetherapy #resilientchild #getchildrenoutside

I was supposed to be out on a Woodland Walk session this morning but the wind speed & gusts would have made it impossible. Sharing pictures of a session that happened last week where we explored Owl Pellets! #forestschooladventures #mindfulwalking #naturetherapy #getthekidsoutside

🧵 I took these 2 boys out for a Mindful Walk session on Friday. One of the mums handed me 3 x £10 for the session which I put in my jacket. During our walk later, her son asked to see the money I’d been given. I thought I’d turn it into a learning opportunity & we talked about the Queen’s head,

Spotted my first snowdrop in one of my pots 😊 #signsofspring #wildflowers #gardening

A brilliant Woodland Walk with 2 boys I taught in Nut Tree Nursery nearly 2 years ago. It’s been lovely to reconnect with them on a 1:1 basis during school holidays. I really noticed how much they’ve grownup 😊 #forestschooladventures #naturetherapy #mindfulwalking

Such a nice start to the week for the FiRsT Blossom Forest School session since Christmas & the LaSt one this year! 2024 was good but looking forward to new adventures in 2025 😊

I spent this afternoon showing my husband the wonderful Kingswood Shetlands & Friends Farm. We spent a couple of hours with the team, mucking out the chickens, ducks, goats & sheep, and came home covered in mud & sh*t! It was wonderful 😆 #therapyanimals #volunteering

If you care about the future of the NHS & you see this on Boxing Day, please could you share this? If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…

Merry Christmas, at least the dogs are having a great time! #dogsatchristmas #schnauzers #cockapoos

Finished my last mindful Woodland Walk at Kings Wood for 2024 yesterday. We hid some treats for the wildlife and my little friend told his mum that we’d made a scavenger hunt for the animals. The Robin didn’t wait! 😊 🎄 🦡 🦊 🐿️ #forestschooladventure #mindfulwalking #naturetherapy

So glad to be a Therapeutic Forest AP and having met quite a few of the team & students IRL this year I’m looking forward to 2025 😊 www.facebook.com/share/p/1Vhw...

A lovely mindful walk this morning, but I wasn’t on my own, ‘Robins appear when loved ones are near’ 🥰 Back home in front of the log burner, enjoying some peace and quiet with my lovely husband & dogs. #mindfulwalking #naturetherapy #birdlover

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