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Salugen is passionate about supporting individuals with their personal and professional development. We promote evidence-based reflective practice and provide effective, high-quality training and CPD for professionals from all walks of life, but especially in social work, health and education sectors. Our courses are continuously informed by peer-reviewed and proven research from a broad range of sources and will benefit you, your organisation and your clients or service users!
The Nature Nurture Approach is a fully online, flexible professional development programme designed to support educators in embedding outdoor-based, nurture-informed practice across early years and primary settings.
Spanning approximately 60 hours of self-directed study, this course allows individuals or whole teams to learn at their own pace, with optional consultation visits for tailored support.
At the heart of the course is a cycle of action research: Theory → Practice → Observation → Reflection → Change
Practitioners are encouraged to apply new ideas in real settings, reflect on impact, and adapt their approach to deepen both personal understanding and whole-school change.
This professional development course is rooted in years of hands-on work with children in Aberdeen, Scotland, where the Nature Nurture Project began as an early intervention for those who had experienced adversity and trauma.
By offering weekly nature-based play supported by nurturing adults, we witnessed remarkable improvements in children’s confidence, resilience, and overall wellbeing.
While the Nature Nurture Project began as a targeted intervention, it’s become clear that all children benefit from this approach. Many now face challenges with anxiety, emotional regulation, and resilience—regardless of their backgrounds.
That’s why we’ve developed this course: to help early years practitioners, group leaders, and teachers bring the benefits of Nature Nurture to their whole class or group.
Salugen is passionate about supporting individuals with their personal and professional development. We promote evidence-based reflective practice and provide effective, high-quality training and CPD for professionals from all walks of life, but especially in social work, health and education sectors. Our courses are continuously informed by peer-reviewed and proven research from a broad range of sources and will benefit you, your organisation and your clients or service users!
We will always seek to:
Understand the training needs of our clients.
Deliver training that is strengths-based and develops opportunities.
Maintain a sharp outcomes focus.
Support delivery of client, local and national strategic objectives.
Ensure cost-effective delivery of client target outcomes.
Always look for ways to improve our practice and services
Salugen and the training we deliver always puts people at the centre. Therefore, we consciously align ourselves with the principles and values of Getting It Right For Every Child, the Curriculum for Excellence, the Early Years Framework, Waldorf Education and Social Pedagogy. We believe that at the heart of all these policies and approaches lie the three fundamental principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity that as individuals, professionals and a company we strive to uphold.
Being service-minded means that we care about providing quality experiences to the clients we serve. For Salugen, this value also extends to supporting our wider community, locally, nationally and internationally. To us, valuing service means that we aim to provide meaningful experiences for the benefit of all. Ultimately, service lies at the heart of all we do.
Our drive to support and promote the personal or professional development of all people, regardless of characteristics, is central to our ethos.
