Details for the course Dates:
Directions
24th -29th May 2015.
Time: 10:00 -16:00 h.
Plant Metamorphosis
Venue: Pishwanton Wood College for Goetheanism Course Fee:
ÂŁ475.
Learning Disabilities: This course is particularly tailored for people with special needs. Accommodation: Cost begins at ÂŁ40 per person per night depending on individual support needs.
After leaving Gifford, at the top of the road splits into three. One road leads to East Saltoun, one to Gifford Golf Club, the other to Longyester. Take the left hand turn. Following signs to Longyester farm turn right and follow the road for about a mile. Pishwanton Community Wood is on the right hand side of the road. You will notice a large wooden shed and the turf roof of our craft workshop. Please park in the car park provided, which is a hundred metres further up the road from these buildings.
Postal Address: The Life Science Trust, Quince Cottage 4, Baxtersyke, Gifford, EH41 4PL, Scotland, UK Telephone: + 44 (0)1620 810 259 Email: admin@pishwanton.com Website: www.pishwanton.org The Life Science Trust (Pishwanton Project) Company Registration Number 140925 Charity Number SCo20705 140925 Charity Number SCO20705 Life Science Trust Company Registration Number 140925 Charity Number SCO20705 Life Science Trust
Pishwanton Wood is a member of the Quiet Garden Movement and the Association of Camphill Communities
A course For people with special needs
Plant Study and Plants in the Landscape at Pishwanton Wood Longyester, Gifford, Scotland
“The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit”. (Rudolf Steiner 1861-1925)
The Programme
The Teacher
People with learning difficulties often have a very sensitive and open relationship to Nature. In our experience the study of plants is found to be enlivening, invigorating and deeply healing and satisfying for people of all ages and abilities. The Pishwanton Project is offering a week long summer school specifically for people with special needs – with or without our support workers. The course includes accommodation in our comfortable hostels, B&B in Quince Cottage, near Pishwanton and self-catering in Greenbank cottage in Gifford. All refreshments, lunch and an evening meal are provided. The course will include group plant study of living plants and plant parts, drawing and painting and the study of a personal chosen plant in the landscape every day. All art materials are included in the price.
Dr Margaret Colquhoun is a biologist with over 20 years of experience in the teaching of Goethean Science. Holding degrees from the University of Edinburgh, having been trained in Goethean Science in the Carl Gustav Carus Institute in Germany and in the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland, Dr Colquhoun is one of the leading teachers of Goethean Science in the English speaking world.