An Extended Residential Immersion in Woodland Living and Self‑Reliance. The 10 Day Woodland Immersion is our most complete and considered woodland living programme. Designed for experienced bushcrafters, it offers the rare opportunity to step fully away from modern systems and settle into a sustained, deliberate way of living in the forest. Over ten uninterrupted days, participants move beyond learning skills and into embodying them—developing judgement, rhythm, and confidence that can only emerge with time.
This is not a survival challenge, nor an exercise in deprivation. It is a measured, deeply practical immersion where comfort, efficiency, and attentiveness are prioritised. The emphasis is on living well in the woodland—quietly, competently, and with increasing independence.
Participants are expected to arrive with a strong foundation in bushcraft. You should already be comfortable living outdoors, working safely with edged tools, and maintaining fire. This shared baseline allows the course to unfold at a mature pace, with less emphasis on instruction and more on refinement, repetition, and consolidation.
Food throughout the immersion is centred on wild game and seasonal resources, ethically sourced and prepared with care. This commonly includes fish, fowl, small mammals, and deer. As the course progresses, participants aim to transition toward eating entirely wild food. Vegetarian and other dietary requirements are accommodated with prior notice and treated with equal consideration.
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An Extended Residential Immersion in Woodland Living and Self‑Reliance. The 10 Day Woodland Immersion is our most complete and considered woodland living programme. Designed for experienced bushcrafters, it offers the rare opportunity to step fully away from modern systems and settle into a sustained, deliberate way of living in the forest. Over ten uninterrupted days, participants move beyond learning skills and into embodying them—developing judgement, rhythm, and confidence that can only emerge with time.
This is not a survival challenge, nor an exercise in deprivation. It is a measured, deeply practical immersion where comfort, efficiency, and attentiveness are prioritised. The emphasis is on living well in the woodland—quietly, competently, and with increasing independence.
Participants are expected to arrive with a strong foundation in bushcraft. You should already be comfortable living outdoors, working safely with edged tools, and maintaining fire. This shared baseline allows the course to unfold at a mature pace, with less emphasis on instruction and more on refinement, repetition, and consolidation.
Food throughout the immersion is centred on wild game and seasonal resources, ethically sourced and prepared with care. This commonly includes fish, fowl, small mammals, and deer. As the course progresses, participants aim to transition toward eating entirely wild food. Vegetarian and other dietary requirements are accommodated with prior notice and treated with equal consideration.
10 Day Woodland Immersion Survival Course
10 Day Woodland Immersion Survival Course
10 Day Woodland Immersion Survival Course
10 Day Woodland Immersion Survival Course
10 Day Woodland Immersion Survival Course
10 Day Woodland Immersion Survival Course
10 Day Woodland Immersion Survival Course
10 Day Woodland Immersion Survival Course
The Nature of the Immersion
The structure of the course is intentionally understated. While core skills are addressed, much of the learning arises through lived experience—establishing camp, maintaining fire, preparing food, crafting tools, and responding to weather, light, and landscape.
Instructors remain present throughout, offering guidance and correction where required, but increasingly step back as confidence grows. Participants are encouraged—never required—to reduce reliance on modern equipment and supplied resources, allowing skills and judgement to take their place naturally.
Arrival and Settlement (Days 1–2)
The opening days are devoted to orientation and settlement. Participants are introduced to the woodland, key resources, and safe camp practice before establishing an initial shelter using a tarp or basha. Attention is given to site selection, fire placement, and camp layout, laying the groundwork for longer-term living.
Walks through the surrounding woodland identify building materials, edible plants, water sources, and terrain features that will support the days ahead.
Evenings centre on food preparation. Game is processed from feather or fur with care and restraint, and meals are prepared communally, establishing rhythm and shared responsibility.
On the second day, focus shifts to constructing a more permanent shelter. Using natural materials gathered from the woodland, participants build structures designed for weather protection, warmth, and longevity. Time is given to refine details, allowing shelters to feel settled rather than temporary.
Comfort, Infrastructure, and Craft (Days 3–4)
With shelters established, attention turns to comfort and efficiency. Participants construct raised beds, natural mattresses, and bedding systems, transforming shelters into genuinely restorative spaces.
Cooking infrastructure is developed next. Participants create their own cooking rigs and utensils, and are issued a Dutch oven for use throughout the immersion. Fire management—placement, control, and maintenance—is explored in depth.
A full deer carcass is processed communally, demonstrating the respectful use of meat, hide, sinew, and bone. Venison legs are cooked slowly in a traditional ground oven, while other materials are reserved for later craft.
Fire, Water, and Essential Skills (Days 4–5)
A dedicated period is given to friction fire lighting, focusing on bow drill technique with progression toward the hand drill where appropriate. Participants source their own materials and, once confident, may choose to retire modern fire‑lighting tools.
Water sourcing, filtration, and purification are explored using low‑technology methods suited to extended woodland living. Cordage making follows, with participants producing usable lengths before moving into woven items such as baskets or fish traps.
Traditional woodland footwear is introduced, with participants guided through the making of simple leather moccasins—allowing for quieter, more grounded movement through the forest.
Where conditions allow, a woodland sauna may be constructed, reinforcing the principle that cleanliness, comfort, and wellbeing remain integral even in simple living.
Increasing Independence (Days 6–7)
From day six onward, participants begin operating with greater autonomy. Meals are increasingly prepared at individual camps, incorporating foraged plants alongside provided game.
Workshops on natural adhesives—resins, pitches, and glues—expand the range of materials available for tool making and repair.
An in‑depth exploration of traps and snares follows. No live trapping takes place, but participants gain a thorough understanding of design, placement, and ethics, constructing functional systems using only natural materials.
Participants are then invited to enter the final consolidation phase of the immersion.
Consolidation and Fully Settled Living (Days 7–9)
The final days are deliberately open and unhurried. Participants may choose to relinquish any remaining modern equipment, relying instead on shelters, bedding, tools, and systems they have created.
Each day centres on maintaining camp, sourcing food, managing fire, and moving thoughtfully through the woodland. Trap placement and decision‑making are reviewed daily, with instructors providing feedback and, where appropriate, suitable game as a reward.
These days form the heart of the immersion—living quietly, competently, and attentively, with instructors present but increasingly peripheral as participants take full ownership of their experience.
Completion and Departure (Day 10)
The final morning begins with a shared breakfast and a return to the woodland sauna before departure.
Participants leave with the equipment they have crafted—utensils, cordage, baskets, water filters, traps, footwear, and cooking rigs—but more importantly with a depth of understanding and confidence that can only be earned through time spent living this way.
In Summary
The 10 Day Woodland Immersion is intended to recalibrate how participants think about comfort, resource use, and self‑reliance. It offers the rare experience of remaining in one place long enough for the woodland to become familiar—and for skills to become instinctive.
At no point is any participant required to do anything they are uncomfortable with. This is a demanding immersion, but it is guided by choice, readiness, and professionalism. Dietary needs are always respected.
For those seeking a truly premium, deeply immersive woodland experience, defined by restraint, competence, and quiet confidence, this programme represents the highest level we offer.
