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Nature House was created 13 years ago by Sarah De Nurtcheylo.
Setting off with nature my heart and a big desire to connect people to nature theirs and nature outside, I wanted people to experience and develop a sense of inner freedom, self confidence, self directed courage and personal resilience that seemed a long way from the modern sterile world we were living in.
This passion led me to setting up a number of Forest Schools, working within schools developing outdoor learning cross-curricula programmes and training up teachers. My drive to link people and nature and a love of creating activities and resources to do this, led me to create and deliver nature based learning spaces and activity programmes and fun interactive resources for the National Trust, RHS, Natural England, Woodland Trust, Parks and other nature based visitor attractions.
Alongside this, I recognised that schools could not regularly visit woods or nature so 7 years ago using funding experience, project management skills and conservation knowledge we secured fund and developed community wildlife and food gardens for local and school use and provided supportive training packages to give practical support.
Nature House now combines its passion for nature, conservation education, personal well-being and development and inspirational creativity to bring you its new unique blend of nature connection experiences and services for individuals, groups and teams and whole organisations.
Sarah De Nurtcheylo
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Director
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Counsellor & Psychotherapist
Community Project Manager, Conservationist,
Educator, Forest School Practitioner,
Creative Writer & Illustrator
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When I was five years old I lived in a big old house amongst fields of wildflowers, wide open spaces and native woodland. Throughout my childhood, I made a strong and deep connection with nature surrounding me creating memories of playing out for hours on end, just me and my brother and occasionally a friend. This was my place of freedom, pleasure and experimentation.
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As I grew older I drifted in to different careers but nature was my nourishment after having my daughter I set my goal to get back to where my heart was. Nature beckoned me it was in my roots and lodged deep inside so I started volunteering at nature based charities, that was the start of it all, no money, a heart full of passion and an eye on the goal.
13 years on, I sit back and think wow! So much has changed since those early days with much of what I set out to do in place: forest schools, community nature & food gardens, trained up teachers, story trails for kids, a story book for the Woodland Trust and lots more nature connected people.
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Now, having trained as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist, my aim is to work with people to improve their mental health and wellbeing by supporting them to connect better with their self and others using nature as refuge, teacher and guide.
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