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My Best course - Taking the lead outdoors

If you want to support your staff to be more adventurous outdoors, this is the course for you, says one deputy nursery manager

Zoe Walters says she was buzzing at the end of the day's outdoor training with expert Gail Ryder Richardson. The course, Leading Learning Outdoors, is one of a programme of leadership courses developed and delivered by Future Creative CIC, a social enterprise based in Deal, Kent, which incorporates a training arm and a nursery, Creative Minds.

Ms Walters' own setting, Grace's Day Nursery, also based in Kent, is an outstanding setting housed in an old manor house with a spacious garden area. She signed up for the course because she was seeking new inspiration for outdoors.

'It was a long day with a lot packed into it,' says Ms Walters. 'There were three of us in total and it was great being part of a small group, which made it possible to look in detail at each of our own situations.

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