Inquiry Ecologies: Designing Play Futures and Thinking in Early Childhood Retreat
£1,500.00 ex. VAT
Educational Retreat: 3rd – 6th November 2026
Oak Tree Inn, Balmaha, Loch Lomond
Join us for a transformational four-day retreat where educators, leaders, and changemakers come together to share, reflect, and reimagine the way we nurture children’s connection to their future.
This isn’t just any training , it’s a rare opportunity to dive deep into futurizing pedagogy, surrounded by like-minded professionals, passionate about shaping a better future. Each session is purpose driven for anyone who is ready to put the future at the heart of learning.
Every child arrives filled with possibility, wired for curiosity, creativity and connection. These capacities are not extras we teach later; they are the very foundations of how human beings learn, adapt and shape the future.
This residential explores a shift away from structured, pre-planned learning experiences towards living systems of thinking, where children’s ideas are understood as evolving, branching, and interconnected
Rather than working towards fixed project outcomes, we learn to notice and respond to children’s curiosity as it emerges in everyday moments, allowing multiple lines of thinking to develop at once within rich, responsive environments.
Across the four days, participants will explore how imagination, nature, narrative, documentation, and material exploration come together to support deeper, more complex learning.
The residential combines keynote thinking, immersive workshops, reflective practice, and applied pedagogical design.
- Workshops include (but many more!)
- You Are Standing on a Story: Reclaiming the educator as thinker, leader and change-maker
- Beasts, Myths and Wild Stories: How imagination supports emotional health and resilience
- Mother Nature, Our Ancestor; Raising guardians of the planet
- Healthier & Happier Little Humans: The science of nature and wellbeing
- Giant Thoughts, Simple Materials: Big thinking through natures treasures
- Inquiry Ecologies Designing living systems of thinking
- Capturing Thinking Through Photography: Seeing children’s learning differently
Please note that places are limited, we only have space for 18 delegates to attend.
The cost is £1,500 per person, plus vat. (no price increase in 3 years!)
This will include 3 nights luxury accommodation (own room), bed, amazing breakfast, lunches and dinners.
More details here: Play Futures retreat
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