Learning that asks something of you.

Our courses aren't designed to fill you up with information. They're designed to open a question, build a practice, or shift how you pay attention to the world around you.

Every programme weaves together head, heart, and hand. Most involve the land in some way. All of them involve other people.

We offer short residential intensives, week-long seasonal schools, and longer certificate programmes. We're working toward a full Diploma in Place, Language and Practice, more on that below.

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Short Courses & Seasonal Schools

  • You don't need to speak a word of Gaelic to start here. This course moves slowly, through language, landscape, and lore. You'll learn vocabulary through place names, walk the estate with words that have been used on land like this for centuries, and sit with the stories that only make sense when you know where they come from.

    It's not a language class in the conventional sense. It's a way back in.

  • For musicians, non-musicians, and people who used to sing.

    Music here isn't performance. It's practice. You'll work with traditional Gaelic song, oral storytelling, and the rhythms that communities used to carry knowledge across generations. The week ends with a ceilidh. The kind that feels earned.

  • Hands in soil. Eyes open. A week of making and tending.

    Dry stone walling. Basketry. Soil science. Seed saving. Natural building. This course is for people who want to learn through their hands and understand why it matters. We work alongside the Geilsland land team throughout the week, contributing to real restoration projects on the estate.

  • For young adults aged 16–24, navigating what comes next.

    A carefully held week for young people at a threshold. Finishing school, leaving home, figuring out direction. It draws on Indigenous and Scottish cultural practices around rites of passage, and offers space, challenge, reflection, and community. Not a gap-year programme. Something quieter and more lasting than that.

  •  A full academic year. For those ready to go deeper.

    A year spent learning on the land, in the community, and alongside a cohort of people asking the same kinds of questions you are.

    Modules include:

    • Scottish Ecological Philosophy & Indigenous Cosmology (Head)

    • Gaelic Language & Cultural Identity (Head + Heart)

    • Seasonal Ceremony, Song & Story (Heart)

    • Regenerative Land Practice & Agroecology (Hand)

    • Traditional Craft & Natural Building (Hand)

    • Community Leadership & Facilitation (Heart + Head)

    Residential. Land-based. SCQF credit-bearing modules in development.

  • We're developing three diploma pathways launching from 2027:

    • Regenerative Land & Craft

    • Gaelic & Cultural Revival

    • Holistic Community Leadership

    If you want to be the first to hear when these open, join our mailing list.

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