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South African born Rhoda has had an interest in wildlife and the outdoors since an early age. Throughout her childhood in South Africa and in the UK she spent many hours with her father exploring and learning about everything from wild food to how to handle lion cubs!
Passionate about wildlife Rhoda studied zoological conservation management at university and began surveying rivers in Cornwall for signs of otter. This period of study rekindled her childhood love for tracking and the outdoors. Rhoda began to build on her skills and is now recognised as one of the UK’s foremost wildlife tracking instructors. She has worked alongside many organisations and is often called upon to run workshops and courses in the UK and abroad.
Rhoda has a unique style of tracking and teaching, using knowledge gained from many different sources and cultures as well as countless hours of practise.
She continues to spend her spare time outdoors honing her bushcraft and tracking skills and passing her knowledge on to her son.
Rhoda works as a yoga instructor specialising in woodland yoga and tuning in to nature, and co-organises the Aarati Festival of Natural Living. Rhoda is also extremely proud to have been asked to be a trustee of The Global Natural Healthcare Trust, a wonderful charity helping people afflicted and affected by HIV/Aids in South Africa.
Angie has always had a keen interest in tracking and putting together the pieces of the puzzle left behind from animal signs. She has used tracking as a scientific tool in many elements of her field research into wildlife populations and conservation. Most recently she has been working in the Canadian Arctic tracking polar bear and identifying individuals from their tracks to estimate minimum numbers. She has also tracked orang-utan through the jungles of Borneo and has worked throughout Africa where she earned the nickname ‘jungle queen’ from local people for her ability to work closely with nature looking for tracks and sign of mammal populations to predict population estimates.
She is passionate about reinforcing the ancient knowledge of tracking and is involved with various organisations in developing techniques that allow native people to use traditional methodology to monitor the local wildlife, without the need for invasive scientific methods and to build the bridges that occur with animal/human conflicts.
Every year she returns to the French Pyrenees where she has been tracking the elusive and rare brown bear, and uses her bushcraft skills to live comfortably in each area that she travels to.
Living and working in Cornwall, where she is on the committee for the Cornwall Mammal Group, Angie enjoys camping out in home made shelters and spending many an early hour finding and following the tracks of wild animals.
Her knowledge of the animals and the environment around her allow Angie to pass on that extra information to give you an insight into the animals life.
Ed was born into a family of traditional craftsmen (and women) and from an early age had a good grounding in spinning, weaving, knitting, pottery and woodturning. His interest in backwoodsmanship and wilderness living skills came early on through the Scouting Association and throughout his childhood and teenage years spent many a good day out in woodlands and field learning as much as he could from those who he met upon the way.
After finishing his formal education in mathematics and the sciences he started to travel, first within the UK, then further a field in Asia and the Indian sub continent, absorbing traditional skills and ways wherever he went.
Upon returning to the UK, Ed completed his teacher training specializing in outdoor education and wrote the Open College Network qualification in Wilderness Living Skills (the first to be taught in Wales) and worked teaching the qualification as an alternative curriculum for those excluded from mainstream education to great success, as well as freelancing to some of the UK's premier bushcraft schools as a guest instructor.
Ed has a passion for teaching and passing on skills that are slowly dying out here in the west and still gives his time freely to the local community managing woodland (by coppicing, hedge laying to hurdle making) and teaching children during the school holidays. He also works as a technical advisor to various outdoor, expedition and adventure companies.
We are incredibly fortunate to have access to some of the best instructors in the world. Here are a few of them....
Mors Kochanski is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on survival techniques. Mors will be instructing for us from his home in Canada on our Winter Survival course. We are extremely grateful to Mors for agreeing to work with us at Worldwild, we are the only UK based school who have this amazing priviledge! For more information on Mors please see our adventures page.
Will Lord has been practising his craft for over 30 years and is widely known for his skills in flint knapping and primitive technology, Will uses a story like approach to deliver a factual account of our prehistoric past. He has taught a wide ranging audience including some of the uk's leading archaeologists, taught on Ray Mears Prim Tech courses, Schools, Museums and more. Will is noted for having a gentle and patient approach to teaching a complex skill such as flint knapping.
We are very fortunate to have Will instructing on our Primitive Skills courses. See the UK Courses page for more details.
A professional chef by trade, with over twenty five years experience in a wide range of catering styles, from preparing specialist diets in the private healthcare industry to the heat & adrenaline of award winning restaurants. He has also instructed for bushcraft schools, teaching outdoor skills, wild foods, foraging and backwoods & expedition cookery techniques. He has also worked with many groups, schools, universities and individuals throughout the UK.
Neil Andrews spent eight years working with the Army Cadet Force, during which time he instructed cadets ,TA and regular soldiers as the unit Adventurous Training Officer. He organised many trips to the welsh mountains, during these trips and many exercises he realised the profound effect spending time in the outdoors has on the young & old alike.
Neil has agreed to instruct for us on our Abo-Chef course and we are very excited to have the opportunity to share his years of experience in this field.
Living in Rural Wiltshire with a trained background in Egyptology and Archeaology, Health and Social Care, Kate followed her Healing and Spiritual path and her love of travel and interest in ancient cultures.She has spent many years of research experiencing and exploring ancient Shamanic traditions and rites of the Native American Indian cultures.The training, initiations and insights Kate received from these indigenous peoples and constant work in this field also in Egypt and Europe,led her to understand and practice many transcendental and metaphysical ceremonies and processes intrinsically related to Healing and the Human Journey.
Working constantly with groups within the land and guiding groups to the deserts of Egypt and beyond, Kate has made many indigineous connections and friends and is renowned for her knowledge, healing and sharing of the ways for the benefit of others and for the whole. While holding regular Sweat Lodges and ceremonies and having a constant working and deep connection with ROD BEARCLOUD, well known for his Traditional ways and lodges on the reservations and wonderful visionary Artwork.
Kate has for many years been teaching through the use of Meditation, Sweat Lodge ceremonies, Vision Quest Healing, and the Medicine Wheel.
Kate has helped many to connect to their own power,healing and consciousness and open perception to the wider truths of Nature. Applying these gained experiences to assisting personal growth and understandings, derived from ancient tradition of wisdom, coupled with a very pracical knowledge of the works of nature.
Further Kate has explored the practical applications of her knowledge and training within the context of Outdoor Survival and Trackingand has gained certification in these fields, as well as practical sharing with the desert and indigenous peoples. She guides many to see and feel the deep connection and awareness of the land and the Brotherhood of Nature in a new light, not as seperate from ourselves but as a part of ourselves and brings a light of high awareness and great respect.
"I have always known Kate to work with the old ways,and I know them to be at the Medicine Wheel,and Inipi's (purification lodges). I know Kate's lodges have always been built in the right way and have been learned well over time.It's good to see something in another country go in a good way that is of Native American orientation.In the many years that i have come to England,it has been the same.Kate's teaching i have heard and i know will assist many people in their journey on the EarthMother.It is good for my heart to see,and i wish you a continued sacred journey." ROD BEARCLOUD BERRY, TRADITIONAL OSAGE NATIVE AMERICAN VISION SEEKER AND LODGE KEEPER.
