Eòlas Outdoor Learning is a Social Enterprise that delivers purposeful, educational and fulfilling outdoor sessions to individuals of all ages who are disadvantaged through either social or emotional circumstances.
Our activities are designed to teach new practical skills as well as to reconnect individuals with the natural world and to enable them to harness its therapeutic benefits. We know that our sessions assist clients to become more resilient, self-confident and achieve a greater sense of self-worth.
Eòlas Outdoor Learning also delivers high quality bespoke training courses to educators and other outdoor learning practitioners to develop and enhance their own proficiencies, including the many hands-on practical skills required to deliver successful forest school programmes and safe outdoor learning and play sessions. We also create short videos for clients from the environmental and conservation sectors who are seeking to share their expertise and successes with their customers and stakeholders.
Forest School Programmes
Providing high quality forest school programmes which enhance relational development, increase resilience and confidence, and support learning through enjoyable, and rewarding activities.
Natural Exploration and Discovery
Inspiring participants to explore and engage with natural habitats by utilising a range of activities that will develop an awareness and respect for the woodland environment and provide beneficial results.
Skill-sharing and Training
Equipping professionals from the education and early learning and childcare sectors with practical skills through high quality cost-effective training courses and skill-sharing opportunities.
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About
Scott Jones is the founder of Eòlas Outdoor Learning and has been delivering outdoor learning opportunities since 2002. Scott qualified as a Forest School practitioner in 2009 and since then, has worked extensively with learners of all ages and abilities, including children and young adults with additional support needs and groups and individuals from areas of multiple deprivation. Scott is a certified Forest Bathing guide and holds qualifications in Therapeutic Skills for Outdoor Leaders, and Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing for Outdoor Leaders.
Going back a few more years, Scott graduated in Glasgow as a biologist in 1984 and initially worked as a scientific officer with the NHS after which he completed a successful 30-year career in the police service retiring in 2017. During those years he gained extensive and wide-ranging experience and qualifications in an array of specialised disciplines, many of which are relevant to his current role.
Scott has combined his lifelong outdoor passion and his desire to help others by providing programmes and courses to numerous clients over the years including Scottish Natural Heritage, Cairngorms National Park Authority, Scottish Forestry, NHS (Scotland), Scottish Countryside Rangers Association, Capability Scotland and a large number of schools in several authority areas.