Train to Teach Woodcraft Skills

Start Your Journey into Teaching Woodcraft with our Level 1 Training

This online course covers the fundamentals to running safe, engaging and inspiring woodcraft workshops for a range of skills and abilities from children to adults. It is run live online or available as a standalone online course to take in your own time.

It is the start of the Woodcrafters Training Pathway, and a recommended step towards our Level 2 Teacher Training

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Where

Via our online teaching platform

Format

Live Online & Available Self Paced (Recorded: Take Anytime)

Prices

£195 (Live Online)

£100(Recorded)

When

Live Online: Friday 19th March 2027

or Online Self Paced (anytime)

Teaching Woodcraft Skills Online Training

A professional online training that gives outdoor practitioners the skills, knowledge and confidence to start teaching knife-based woodcraft workshops. You finish with a complete, ready-to-run Workshop Pack: session plans, risk assessments and safety protocols.

Teaching Woodcraft Skills (Level 1) is the first step on the Woodcrafters Training pathway, and a recommend step towards Level 2: Teacher Training & Level 3 Facilitator Training

Self-paced Online Training · £100
Includes 8 video modules, 9.5 hours, all templates and resources, and a Level 1 Certificate of Completion. Hosted on our online training platform. Learn at your own pace, anywhere in the world

Live Online Training with Alex Finberg · £195
Everything in the online training: Includes 8 video modules, 9.5 hours, all templates and resources, and a Level 1 Certificate of Completion plus a live online half day training with Alex Finberg

Led by Alex Finberg, author of Spooncarving: From Log to Spoon and founder of Woodcrafters.

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Live Online Training with Alex Finberg · £195

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Online Self Paced Training · £100

What the Training Covers

  • Getting Set up as a Woodcraft Tutor: Insurance, selecting a venue, working with partner organisations, understanding your role as a Woodcraft Tutor

  • Session Planning & Risk Assessing: Best practice session planning and risk assessing with templates and guides for you to adapt to your own settings

  • Teaching Woodcraft Skills: How to safely teach the use of knives, axes, and carving tools; preparing suitable materials; demonstrating safe technique and teaching complete beginners

  • Tree ID & Species Selection: How to source and select wood for carving, teach grain orientation and direction and supply suitable wood for a range of abilities

  • Inclusivity & Adaptations: we introduce inclusive practice for children and vulnerable adults those with additional learning needs

  • Programme Design: how to structure one-off workshops & multi-week courses

Course Syllabus & Further Info

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If you’d like to book through your organisation or need an invoice, just drop us a line at info@woodcrafters.uk

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Teaching Woodcraft Skills Online Training (Level 1)

Start your Woodcraft Teaching Journey Today!

Self guided online training, hosted on our online teaching platform

*You will be issued with your course login within 48 hours

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Teaching Woodcraft Skills Live Online (Level 1)

Join us LIVE & start your Woodcraft Teaching Journey !

Live Online training + full access to the online library - learn to safely teach knife based woodcraft skills and get expert advice and input from the Woodcrafters team

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Woodcrafters Teacher Training (Level 2)

Take your woodcraft teaching skills to the next level

In-depth 3 day residential training course with Online modules for those who want to take their teaching skills to the next level

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Woodcrafters Facilitator Training (Level 3)

Train to deliver Woodcraft for Wellbeing

Immersive 3 day residential training course with CPD certified online modules for those who want to harness the wellbeing benefits of craft in their own community

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Teaching Woodcraft Skills Pricing

  • £195 (Live Online)

    Includes: Live Online Training + Full Online Course – Includes full access to the online training platform, risk assessments, session plans, video tutorials and guides, plus a live online training with Woodcrafter founder & Lead Trainer Alex Finberg

    The recommended route as you will receive live expert advice and input and join a community of practitioners starting their woodcrafters journey.

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  • £100 (Online, Recorded)

    Includes: Full Online Course – recorded. Includes full access to the online training platform, risk assessments, session plans, video tutorials and guides.

    Ideal for those who would prefer to learn at their own pace, or who can’t make the live course and would like to get started today

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Learn with us

Woodcrafters are a leading provider of CPD certified training courses, equipping craftspeople and outdoor practitioners with high quality, experiential training programmes, both online and in person.

Our courses are designed to raise the bar of teaching in the UK and internationally, ensuring teachers are providing inclusive, engaging, inspiring workshops which aspire to impart excellence in nature based crafts

Who It’s For

Woodcrafters offer a range of training programmes to meet participants at various stages of their teaching journey. From Teaching Woodcraft Skills (Level 1) through to Teacher Training (Level 2) and advanced trainings such as the Woodcrafters Facilitator Training (Level 3)

Whether you work in education, community work, outdoor learning, or are simply keen to start teaching woodcraft, our courses provide the practical skills and facilitation tools to teach safe & inspiringwoodcraft workshops

  • Craftspeople

  • Forest school leaders

  • Primary & Secondary School Teachers

  • TAs & SENDCo’s

  • Youth workers

  • Arts & wellbeing facilitators

  • Outdoor educators

& Anyone with a passion for learning to teach Woodcraft!

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Training Structure

Teaching Woodcraft Skills is a professional, practice-based course designed to help you deliver safe, inclusive and engaging woodcraft workshops in your own community.

You’ll gain the skills and confidence to start your journey into teaching

  • Online Modules—Access to the Full Online Teaching Woodcraft Skills Training with video tutorials, session plans and guides to support you from Day 1 of your Practice

  • Invite to our In-Person (Level 2) Teacher Training & (Level 3) Facilitator Trainings — immersive practical trainings combining carving, teaching, and reflective learning.

  • Ongoing CPD Opportunities - Woodcrafters participants are invited to continue their learning through optional CPD workshops, online modules, and community gatherings.

  • Access to Woodcrafters Membership: includes a host of benefits from tool discounts, to the online business and marketing school to the grant funding academy

  • "I feel loads more confident in moving towards holding my own sessions. I have got lots of ideas of projects and things i can do in a session. Im raring to go but im just at the start of my journey" - JC Woodcrafters Trainee

  • "I feel so content and confident. I will walk into my sessions with a head held high now. I feel i can see how i will progress and feel the insecurity i suffered from is aleviated. Ive learned to value what i do and also feel i have a network for future support . Ive had so much fun. And learnt so much . I feel inspired and mellow" - RF

  • "I enjoyed being part of a community deeply committed to harnessing woodcraft as a tool to promote and create wellbeing, in support of mental health. I was able to see where my own practice needs to grow and what I've already managed to establish on my own, plus I met a lot of beautiful and like-minded humans with whom I also share lots of insecurities of doubts as facilitators, woodcrafters and humans in society in general." —RG Woodcrafters Trainee

  • "Inspired to strip back my chaotic approach to sessions I deliver and use carving as the focus and theme. Build my confidence in starting with woodcraft and begin to implement wellbeing. My self doubt has been challenged this weekend but the support and kindness within the community has been invaluable. It has helped with bringing confidence back into my future carving self. Honest and open reflective moments were very good and well supported/facilitated." - KT Woodcrafters Trainee

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Outcomes for Trainees

By the end of the programme, you will:

  • Be confident in teaching basic woodcraft safely to groups.

  • Be aware of the safety requirements for teaching woodcraft professionally

  • Be equipped with practical tools, session plans, and risk assessments to support your practice

  • Join a growing network of Woodcrafters practitioners.

Why Train with Us?

  • Expert Support: Our tutors have in depth experience as woodcraft tutors and craftspeople

  • Supportive Community: Trainees join an active peer group with networking & CPD opportunities.

  • Impact-Driven: we offer CPD certified courses to ensure quality & excellence in teaching craft

Our Partners

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