Navigate the Future
While Navigate the Future can’t always be there to protect you from life’s storms, what it can offer you is a safe-harbour. A place of acceptance, where you feel you belong. A place where you can begin to navigate away from life's lows. What it does offer is an anchor-point from which to re-orientate your life, towards a quality of life that gives full expression to our dignity. A harbour, where you can find that window of time to do a bit of work on yourself - so that when the next storm hits, as it invariably will, you can ride it out and suffer less long-term damage. Somewhere to make some plans for the future & improve earning potential.
That’s why we describe Navigate the Future as a learning community rather than a training programme. A community of creative people, who come together to co-operatively meet some of our needs; our shared need for acceptance, to learn new skills, to work, to contribute our creativity, and find friendship. Membership of this community will challenge, inspire and empower and, for some of us, be something of a ‘rite of passage’ that enables us to find the best within ourselves and return to us our heritage of working with natural materials, the elements, the land and sea. Membership is for as long as we want; this is not a number game, rather we’ll support the balance shifts between what we receive and what we feel able to give.
Using traditional skills as a vehicle and working with natural materials such as wood, stone and metal, Navigate the Future provides opportunities to pick up new skills, and get in to good life habits; creating through the course of a week, varying conditions where different kinds of learning can take place in natural and inclusive contexts. Small furniture projects provide a practical focus, while other changes get to work on deeper personal levels. At the same time as creating an object of beauty that will enrich your home environment or serve as a gift to repair family relationships, you find a sense of worth and achievement.
Through their time spent with us, we hope people will be empowered to navigate life with dignity, through expanded means of meeting their needs in life-enhancing ways and so become more socially, culturally and economically engaged with their community.
To apply, please call in for a visit and pick up an application form – or download and print off the application form and post it to us.
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Download Navigate the Future Leaflet [ 0.70 Mb ]
