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Crossfields Institute has recently approved NordicQuest College of Applied and Professional Studies in Helsinki, Finland as a Quality Mark Centre. We are excited to work with the college as they deliver programmes that address 21st century concerns and needs in Education and Health and Wellbeing. https://www.nordicquestcollege.com/index.html
Crossfields Institute International provided a training week for lecturers from Bulgaria in how to teach biodynamic agriculture and manage university level education. The training was held at Emerson College allowing us to visit two well established biodynamic farms and call on the expertise of experienced farmers to help Crossfields’ staff deliver the training. The lively students, the wealth of resources in the area and the fine, though windy, weather made for a rich and rewarding week.
Isis has a new publication out in the highly ranked international journal Environmental Values. It is about the tension between retaining culturally rich traditional farming landscapes or re-wilding to increase self-sustaining biological diversity and space for unrestrained nature. The full details are:
Brook, I. 2018 ‘Restoring or Re-storying the Lake District: applying responsive cohesion to a current problem situation’ in Environmental Values Vol. 27:4, pp. 427-447.
We are proud to announce the launch of a new customised qualification: the Crossfields Institute Level 6 Diploma in the IFEEL Method of Equine Facilitated Psychotraumatology (SRQ). It is designed for those wishing to professionally engage with equine facilitated sessions in an individual and group context in human development and psychotraumatology. This programme is delivered by IFEAL Qualifications and awarded by Crossfields Institute.
Crossfields Institute and The Mulberry Bush are delighted to announce the launch of a new Ofqual regulated qualification.
Crossfields Institute Level 3 Certificate in Therapeutic Group Work with
Children and Young People
is now open for registrations.
Individuals working across the childcare sector, whether in education, health or social care, often have to organise, lead and manage group activities and sessions with children and young people. In order to do this, they will need to develop skills which allow them to run group sessions in an
empathetic and therapeutic way to enable the group sessions to run effectively.
This qualification enables individuals to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to run therapeutic group sessions with children and young people in an effective way.
The Mulberry Bush is a not-for-profit charity consisting of The Mulberry Bush School, a non-maintained residential special school with a three-year programme which runs for 38-weeks a year, working with vulnerable and severely traumatised primary aged children and their families from across England and Wales, The Mulberry Bush Outreach, our outreach and training department, our Research and Development department and The International Centre for Therapeutic Care.
Crossfields Institute is a Gloucestershire based education charity, approved by Ofqual (the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulations in England) as an awarding organisation. The Institute specialises in the development niche qualifications for providers with a particular vision or
ethos
Charlotte von Bülow and Dr Peter Simpson from UWE have today been speaking about Ambiguity in Collaboration at the National Trust Curators Conference in Nostell Priory, Yorkshire.
Life after the MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education
Masters of Science in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education
Delivered by Crossfields Institute at the Field Centre in Horsley
Accredited by the University of the West of England
Between 2012 and 2016, we saw upwards of 50 students start and (almost all) finish this course with the last graduating at Bristol Cathedral in 2016, and these are just some of them.
So, what are they doing now? This is the first of a series of narratives about some of our alumni…….
Riverside House is a particularly beautiful and ecologically diverse site in the historic heart of Stourbridge. This derelict, early 19th Century, ironworks, was part of a conglomerate that was amongst the largest in the UK. Over the next several years it will be transformed into a heritage centre with gardens, restaurant, crafts shop, woodland and workshops, but also a place where people feel included and bespoke opportunities are provided.
This is a perfect environment that caters for the needs of a wide range of individuals to engage in practical skills activities through the actual conservation and preservation of the Riverside House estate. Practical skills have a proven efficacy in providing outcomes such as improvements in well-being, self-esteem, social inclusivity and physical health.
This is the creation of one of our MSc alumni – Lloyd Stacey – Founder and managing director of Riverside House.
Please watch this short video to see this amazing place for yourself
Fergus Anderson, Lecturer at Crossfields International, defended his Doctorate at Alanus University yesterday and was awarded with ‘magna cum laude’. His thesis on the ‘Dynamic Phenomenology of Conscious Occurrent Thinking: a first person approach’ will soon be available to the general public. Congratulations from his colleagues at the Institute.
Crossfields Institute and the Portland Centre for Integrative Medicine are delighted to announce that a new self-regulated qualification in integrative medicine has been launched.
Crossfields Institute Level 7 Diploma in Integrative Medicine (SRQ)
is now open for registrations.
The aims of this qualification are to develop the theoretical and practical knowledge, the critical and analytic abilities and the professional and reflective practice of health care professionals to help them transform health care into a more effective and compassionate practice that respects the individual as a whole person.
The Portland Centre is a centre of excellence for Integrative Medicine (IM) that supports the transformation of health care, combining the best of conventional and complementary care to deliver a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. The Portland Centre brings together a team of professionals focused on health promotion, self-care and lifestyle, supporting connections between mind and body and individuals and their communities.
Crossfields Institute is a Gloucestershire based education charity, approved by Ofqual (the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulations in England) as an awarding organisation. The Institute specialises in the development niche qualifications for providers with a particular vision or ethos.
Our colleague Judy Foster, Director of Operations, was proud to present certificates at the Montessori Centre International graduation ceremony in London last Friday to learners from all over the world completing their Diploma in Montessori Pedagogy. This is Luca D’Andrea receiving his certificate. For information on these qualifications: https://www.montessori.org.uk/mci-training/courses/diploma-eye.
