Guided by Nature

03/09/2025

Very touched by the feedback from three Creative Nature and Wellbeing sessions at Diwylliant Conwy Culture. "A Joyful Experience" "Truly Fabulous and Delightful' "Its hard to describe how much this has helped me. I never realised I could make a book! " ❤️ Thanks lots Sarah Gorst for being the helpau heddiw!

30/08/2025

Whoop whoop, this huge picture is up! Feeling proud to have four pictures on the wall at The Royal Oak in Betws as part of an ongoing collaboration with The Betws Outdoor Painters Group. Thanks so much to both of these organisations and the individuals within them for all your support and giving me this opportunity to display some of my work.

28/08/2025

Free training for Lancs folk working with groups in the outdoors. Scan the QR code to book or email caro@guidedbynature.org.uk for booking link. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. In partnership with Shine Coaching and Wildwood Days

27/08/2025

Just want to say a massive thank you to Sarah Gorst who has volunteered to help me with the creative, nature and wellbeing sessions on Wednesday afternoons at Diwylliant Conwy Culture. She's just brilliant on so many levels, she totally gets what we are doing, is so supportive to the members of the group, shares examples of her own lovely art work and is a tidier upper extraordinare. My migraines have been quite debilitating this month so having a second brain and another pair of hands had been a god send. 😇 We had a great session today and participants have said how much they are enjoying it 😍

23/08/2025

Excited about processing this indigo at Gardd Ffrancon this afternoon. 4pm til 5pm if anyone fancies dropping by to watch, help, chat.

22/08/2025

This headline should read...."Lone Forty Something Women has a life changing experience walking the UK's toughest Long Distance Trail"

And this was me almost ten years ago walking the Cape Wrath trail up through the Scottish Highlands alone. I was hoping for some divine inspiration, wild epiphany in nature by virtue of walking miles and miles over massive mountains...

What I did get was a very bad knee from carrying a heavy pack and eventually realised that covering distance is just covering distance, and higher doesn't equal better. Instead I stopped half way up and lived on a remote inaccessible peninsula called Scoraig for a year in a round wooden house in a fascinating off grid community, made some lovely friends and volunteered in marine conservation.

This aborted trail walking, the humbling experience of just getting older, struggling with chronic migraines and my training in eco psychology has led me to the conclusion that we don't always have to be achieving and succeeding, or going higher and further to enjoy being outdoors. That connection with nature and the land often comes from just staying put. In fact the mindset of always wanting more or having to prove ourselves is the very thing that causes disconnection with and damage to the living world. I still like a wee adventure and a little roam around the UK and Ireland but it doesn't need to be anything grand, I don't expect a miracle, cause let's face it that's just for the movies. Its possible to have some beautiful, meaningful times without going far at all... .

21/08/2025

Lovely start to the Creative Nature sessions I am running at Diwylliant Conwy Culture centre. Simple guided creative activities outdoors to help people connect to the beauty of nature and improve their wellbeing. Using the NatureWell approach to Nature, Health and Wellbeing combined with creativity, my USP!

20/08/2025

Indigo - after successfully growing Japanese Indigo this year, I will be harvesting and processing some leaves this Saturday at Gardd Ffrancon the community garden in Bethesda, This is part of a project I am running with GwyrddNi, that involves growing plants for making natural ink. Do feel free to stop by between 4pm - 5pm to chat, watch or help out.

20/08/2025

I will be at Gardd Ffrancon on Saturday 4pm - 5pm demonstrating how to process indigo leaves to make blue pigment 💙

🎨🌼 Eisiau dysgu sut i wneud lliwiau o blanhigion? / Do you want to learn how to make colours from plants? 🎨🌼

Ymunwch â’r artist a’r ecotherapydd Caroline Schofeld o Guided by Nature i ddarganfod sut y gallwn ni wneud inc o ddeunyddiau naturiol.

Cymerwch seibiant o’r pwysau i fod yn gyflym ac yn effeithlon – mae gweithio gyda pigmentau a phlanhigion naturiol yn broses hirach, arafach a mwy cysylltiedig sy’n gwbl wahanol i brynu inc yn fasnachol.

23 Awst 4pm – 5pm : Galw heibio – planhigion a Lliw yng Ngerddi Ffrancon, Bethesda. Bydd Caroline yn yr ardd gymunedol i ddangos beth sydd wedi bod yn tyfu dros yr haf. Bydd hi’n dangos y ddau gam cyntaf o brosesu dail indigo i greu pigment glas.

Cadwch lygad allan am y Gweithdy Lliw Naturiol ym mis Hydref!

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Join artist and eco-therapist Caroline Schofeld of Guided by Nature to find out how we can make ink from natural materials.

Take a break from the pressure of being fast and efficient – working with natural pigments and plants is a longer, slower and more connected process, completely different from buying ink commercially.

23rd August 4pm – 5pm : Plants and Colour drop in at Gerddi Ffrancon, Bethesda
Caroline will be at the community garden to show what has been growing over the summer. She will show the first two steps of processing indigo leaves to create blue pigment. Just turn up!

Stay tuned for the Natural Colour Workshop in October!

Partneriaeth Ogwen

18/08/2025

Looking forward to running this lovely day at Offshoots with Mick from Newground Together.... A free Nature & Wellbeing event near Burnley on a beautiful site run by experienced and qualified Nature and Health facilitators. You will have a relaxing and enjoyable day in nature as well as learning some ways to support yourself emotionally. This is suitable for any adults including people who struggle with anxiety, stress or low mood. Book with Michael.Duckworth@Newground.co.uk

17/08/2025

African Marigolds against Carneddau. These are going to give us a gorgeous yellow 💛Growing as part of a natural colour project with GwyrddNi at Gardd Franccon. Next week I will be processing the indigo leaves and in October we will be playing about making natural inks. Studio EVIG - The Plant Dye Company