Tuesday 29 March 2022
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The Day
@SpiritinMind initiative, Spring 2022
17 NHS SWYT staff attending one day course held at @yspsculpture
Leader: Gisela Hoyle, Forest School Practitioner
• Introductions – each other – groups (Acorns, Daisies & Mushrooms)
• Walk to collect times – twig/feather
• Return, regroup & refreshments and then
• Long walk to lake and tree-shelter – ‘reawakening’
• Collecting….
• Trust Moment – blindfold, led to tree, away and then find it again!
• Poetry…. And readings!
• Quick walk back to lunch
• Classroom – then outside for game….
• Clay-Play – making stuff!
• Final reflection…..
Poem – The Big Beech Tree
Mighty Mysteries
Deep Down and Within.
Crevice and Branch
Limbs and Fingers.
Richly Rich in
Richness of Life.
Sky Above
Like Tendrils, Arteries
Beast or Benign.
Mightily Marvellous
Sentinel of Life.
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