How can learning beyond the classroom become a meaningful part of everyday teaching?
Experience Nordic outdoor learning, examine the teaching decisions behind it and design an approach for your own learners, curriculum and local environment.
You may already sense what pupils gain when learning moves outdoors: more curiosity, more movement and a real place to investigate. Turning that into regular practice is another matter. It has to connect to the curriculum, work for all learners and feel manageable in the time, weather and conditions you actually have.
This course helps you make those teaching decisions. You will experience the Nordic approach first-hand, then adapt its principles for your own learners, curriculum and local environment.
Bring home an approach that makes outdoor learning purposeful, inclusive and realistic enough to use again.
Starts 7 April 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
Starts 16 June 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
Starts 21 July 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
Starts 4 August 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
Registering interest is free. A course run is confirmed once at least six participants have registered their interest. Until then, neither a place nor a course run is guaranteed. Booking terms →
Run the course with your own staff, on your own dates.
Day 1
What changes when learning moves outside, through practice and research.
Day 2
Observation, inquiry, movement and the teacher decisions behind them.
Day 3
Forest, shoreline and city park as places for structured inquiry.
Day 4
Curriculum connections, routines and inclusion for your own learners.
Every course we run is built on what research says makes professional learning change practice. Here is what that looks like in this one.
Practical outdoor experiences in Stockholm, combined with research and discussion.
You design an idea for your own learners and context.
You put one idea into practice back at school, with peer feedback.
An optional online follow-up to share what happened and refine your approach.
The programme moves through six connected stages: Experience, Understand, Design, Apply, Reflect and Refine. It combines first-hand outdoor learning, research, professional dialogue, practical design work, classroom-based implementation, evidence gathering, peer feedback and an optional live online follow-up.
Outdoor life has a distinctive place within Nordic culture and education. Stockholm gives us a rich environment in which to explore that relationship first-hand. Across the four days, we draw on Nordic traditions and contemporary practice while examining broader ideas about place, experience, learner agency and the relationship between schools and the world around them. Participants then consider those ideas through the lens of their own culture, curriculum, learners and environment. The Nordic perspective gives us a starting point. The important work is deciding what those principles could make possible in your own setting.
Outdoor learning is approached as a practical teaching choice, not a promise of automatic attainment gains. Guidance on weather, safety and accessibility is adapted to the activity, place, conditions and local school requirements.
EUR 420 per participant, incl. VAT
Facilitation and all course materials, a certificate of attendance, a selection of cultural activities in Stockholm, and fika every day: tea, coffee, something baked and something healthy. Participants bring weather-appropriate clothing, and we send a packing list closer to the course.
Meals, travel and accommodation.
Most courses run at our base in Vasastan, a few minutes' walk from Odenplan, with cafés and a park close by. We confirm the venue with each group before the course. Arlanda is about 40 minutes away by commuter train or airport coach, with no change needed. Between sessions there is time to walk by the water and reflect. We find people learn better that way.
Getting here and where we work →Nick Praulins is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads our work with schools and educators, shaping the learning philosophy, pedagogy and programme design behind its education practice.
View profile →Marius Ketels is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads much of our work with companies and organisations, designing and facilitating programmes around leadership, teams and human performance.
View profile →Erasmus+ KA1 teacher mobility. Your organisation confirms eligibility and funding with its National Agency. We complete the Europass Mobility document for participants who request it.
You can move to another date or send a colleague at no cost. If you cancel more than four weeks before the start, we keep 30% of the fee; inside four weeks, we keep the full fee. If we cancel, you choose a full refund or another date.
What you’ll leave with
An outdoor learning experience ready for your learners, planning frameworks and clear next steps.
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Erasmus+ is the European Union’s programme for education, training, youth and sport. The Nordic Learning Company AB is an independent course provider, not endorsed by the European Commission or any National Agency. Member of the EU Pact for Skills. Based in Stockholm.
EUR 420 per participant, incl. VAT
Starts 7 April 2027
