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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