Make playable instruments out of vegetables with musicians Al Strachan and Graeme Walker.
Class requirements: bring a vegetable you can hollow out (eg. a large carrot, a marrow). We’ll be making some soup out of the innards, so bring an appetite too. If you’ve got a hand drill, bring it. If you’ve got other useful tools. bring them.
If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free.
Experienced researcher Ian Scott will show you how to do a little bit of market research of your own. He'll show you how to design a questionnaire, avoiding leading, confusing and meaningless questions and to consider who you might want to answer the questionnaire, as well as touching on how many respondents (completed surveys) you might need.
After collecting some data you Ian will help you with will then need to work out what it is saying, so Ian will help you work out what the information is saying, using basic statistical analysis. This will include averages, correlations, and a wee bit about probabilities (how likely is something to happen?).
Class requirements: pen, paper and calculator.
Ian has been a researcher for 20 years and has worked for organisations as diverse as MORI, Al Jazeera, Cancer Research UK, and Norwich Union.
If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
If you’ve taught at the school before, we’re going to cook you dinner. It’s an opportunity to have some good food, conversations, get a bit drunk and post brilliant lesson ideas to the website together.
BYO drinks. All welcome.
It seems to be happening naturally. If we’ve got space at the end of a class, and you want to stay on, you can. We’re always up for extending, morphing and shifting the ideas to new realms, whilst referring back to the original class. What this means: ultimately, that lessons do not stop; that the most natural thing is to continue; that continuing is more natural than stopping.
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“The Secret Salad Society celebrates and shares the delights of Salads in good company. It is a collaborative learning and eating experience. We will all become teachers and students as we share our salad secrets and discover new recipes we can try at home.”
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
Use quick and simple techniques to create spontaneous poetry. With Roshnii Rose.
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
“This wild class is about spatial and sonic awareness, grounding and focusing on & being in the moment. Through a few painless humming exercises we warm up our bodies, play with the tone of our hums and test our breathing and sound projection potential. Once we’re warmed up we can begin the seriously wild harmonising class.
‘Chance harmonising’ is a way to create epic soundscapes entirely by chance. The accidental sounds produced from these exercises can be absolutely mind blowing, so we’re going to record them and put them on Graeme’s label.
Seriously Wild Harmonising sessions don’t require any singing experience. And you don’t need to be able to read music. It’s about singing together, listening carefully, trying things out and learning very small tricks to open up the voice.” Sophie Goblin
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
Optional: shoes and socks.
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
In this class personal development coach Sofie Rutherford will help you realise your potential using the Life Wheel, a trusted workshop technique that improves confidence and will guide students towards realistic goals.
“I have been delivering workshops and courses to people from all over the world for the past 14 years and I would love to share some of my practical tips to help you be the best you can be and live a more fulfilling life.”
Class requirements: a stamp and a pen.
Note: this class is capped at 15 students. Sign up by contacting Graeme at [email protected]
This post will be updated when the limit has been reached. If lots of people want to do it, we’ll do it again. If it doesn’t say that we’ve reached our limit, it means that you can (and should) come to this class.
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
You know how some people seem always to have money problems? Other people always seem to make it work? You know how some people can have millions of pounds, but are constantly worried about spending too much in the supermarket? You know how money can seem to take on strange and mysterious powers that make it confusing and aloof and brilliant and infuriating and endlessly enigmatic all at once?
In an economics class, you might learn that money is “a means of exchange, a store of value and a unit of account”, but how does that really help?
In this class, you can learn how money is all about stories. And that things like “means of exchange" and “store of value" are just two of an infinite number of stories you can tell about this thing called money. By exploring what stories you have about money and practisiing writing new stories about money, you can tap into the wild creativity that is available to the financial storytellers and artful bankers who make the most of our world of money.
A taster of Charles Davies’ “Creative With Money” workshop, as part of the Brighton Digital Festival in September.
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
If you ever thought noughts and crosses was easy and boring, Spike Padley will show you how adding to the grid and playing with the rules can make an unforseen universe of play open before you.
In this session you will learn the not-so-ancient art of extreme noughts and crosses, which was created as a distraction from GCSEs but has since flourished and evolved into an ever-evolving, semi-improvised and complex game. Learn the various rules & lingo used when playing, and leave with a increased sense of being a better improviser and idea developer.
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
In this class you’ll learn everything you need to know to build a genuinely beautiful web page in about 4 hours. You’ll be introduced to HTML and CSS, you’ll learn about typography, colour, rhythm and whitespace, and you’ll put a really beautiful webpage live onto the internet.Class Requirements:
You’ll need an internet enabled laptop, running two bits of software and two plugins:
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
Whenever you’re working with someone else, you’re working with authority. Who’s in charge? Who gets to say who can do what? Who’s responsible for what? How free are you to do what you want?
There are four ways to handle authority:
One. You work without ever considering what it is or how it affects how you work.
Two. You pretend it’s not there and say everyone is equal and anyone can do what they want.
Three. You work with it deliberately, but clumsily. Some people become dictators, some are trapped. People end up responsible for things they have no authority to act on, or have authority over things without taking responsibility for them.
Four. You work with it creatively, so everyone is free to contribute what they’re truly capable of, supported by appropriate responsibilty, accountability, freedom and acknowledgement.
In this class, you can learn a set of simple techniques so that you can incorporate a creative approach to authority into any project, company, organisation, collaboration that you work on.
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
Well-made projects are built on very clear ideas.
The idea should come first. When it’s clear, everything grows from it: the project is coherent and the work is effortless.
The Very Clear method is a systematic approach for developing very clear ideas.
Not waiting for inspiration to strike in the shower, but crafting clearer ideas step-by-step.
It’s a skill you can learn. The point of Very Clear Ideas is to learn that skill and apply it to the real world.
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
Martin Lowndes of Be Now gives a fascinating participatory demonstration on how sound frequencies can retrain your brain, improving your ability to prepare your mind for work and deep relaxation post work - to leave the stresses of the day behind.
Using sound tone generators, Martin will replicate the frequencies your brain naturally produces, stimulating it into new moods: active, engaged, relaxed, drifting and deep.
CDs will be provided at the end of the session so you can try it out at home and work.
This class is strictly capped at 5 participants. Sign up by contacting Graeme at [email protected]
This post will be updated when the limit has been reached. If lots of people want to do it, we’ll do it again. If it doesn’t say that we’ve reached our limit, it means that you can (and should) come to this class.
This class is now full.
We will try to source the following, but if you have them, please bring them:
1. A yoga mat
2. Over-ear headphones
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If you’ve not been to The Wild School before, you can come and try this class for free
