Profile - Sarah Blackwell
Sarah Blackwell is the Director of Archimedes Training and has been pioneering Forest Schools training in the UK for the past 7 years and is our head trainer. We are currently the only UK training organisation to offer level 4 OCN Forest Schools training designed and written by Sarah Blackwell. Sarah’s passion is to provide the highest quality training that she can and has devised our Archimedes training programmes to go above and beyond those offered by other providers both in the training materials that we provide and in the emotional development and dedication and commitment Sarah gives to our learners.
Sarah constantly investigates pioneering concepts and theories to ensure all the courses she designs are innovative with up-to-date and relevant information delivered in a motivating style. This immense passion and dedication to the expansion of personal development, outdoor play & education supported by her wide experience of developing environmental and Professional Development programmes, results in a character that inspires not only the people who attend her courses but also the people she works with.
Sarah has many qualification that go towards building her unique training approach including:
PGCE Business Education- BSc 1st class Honors Countryside Recreation Managemen
- City & Guilds III Outdoor Activities
- Qualified Mountain Leader,
- Single Pitch Award [climbing] Cave and Mine leader
- Advanced Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI)
- Care of young people and restraining methods
- ITC Outdoor First Aid
- Forest Schools Practitioner Award
- NCFE Certificate in Life coaching and NLP practitioner
- Pond management
- Grassland Management
- Dry Stone Walling
- Tree Felling with groups
- Certificate in Chain Saw