LET YOUR CHILD GO WILD DAY

WITH WILL LORD

Prehistoric Survival Days out for Children.

Course takes place on Grimes Graves, 4000 year old Neolithic Flint Mines in Norfolk.

Stone Age experience for children aged 7-16 years.

Will Lord will show you how to survive using the materials in the habitat, just as our ancestors did during the Stone Age, at a time when every day was a survival situation.

The day starts at 9.30am and ends at 3.30pm.

Will Lord excels in all aspects of primitive survival techniques and the day's topics will include:

• Making basic tools from flint & bone.

• Fire starting.

• Cordage - making cordage from natural materials that will help you to trap and bind your prey and every day needs.

• Prehistoric cooking - where you can prepare your own lunch by butchering wild game with flint tools and cook them over the fire.

• Primitive weapons.

• Foraging and survival tips.

These courses are very much guest lead regarding the content, so if there's something that particularly interests you, then mention it to your instructor and they'll try to fit it in.

Will Lord who recently assisted 'Walking The Amazon's" - Ed Stafford -  to prepare for his new TV series called 'Naked & Marooned' will personally take this course.

So a whole day away from their PC, PS3, XBOX and phones to ensure you have a time to remember.

We recommend early booking for this popular workshop.

This course costs £50 for a child accompanied by an adult. Add a second child 1/2 price.

Lunch and drinks are included.

FLINT KNAPPING COURSES

Try your hand at the ancient art of Flint Knapping.

Held at Grimes Graves Ancient Flint Mines.

Learn the skill used by our ancestors to create a range of tools such as hand axes, knives, arrowheads and axe heads.

For those with an interest in the prehistoric era, this course offers you a great opportunity to understand the features and characteristics of stone implements.

During the day you will be introduced to the tools that are used for Flint Knapping and shown how and when to use them, You will have clear and well-presented demonstrations of how to make a range of tools covering 3 Periods of the Stone Age, Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. This means you will be shown how to make a hand axe, blade core for tools such as saws and burins, plus pressure flaking for producing fine arrowheads. When your day ends you will be pleased to know you keep the items you have made.

The group course is available for £80 per person

Start time 9.30am, Finish 4.00pm

This course is self-catered but refreshments are included throughout the day.

The course takes place at Grimes Graves, at the 4000 year old Neolithic flint mines, in the heart of Thetford Forest in Breakland Norfolk. Your course includes access to the site and the use of the facilities there including the exhibition and the flint mine open to the public. (During its open season April till October.)

You can also book a personal one-to-one tuition with Will Lord where you will be able to have Will's undivided attention. This is often popular for those who wish to progress further with this complex craft.

Held at Grimes Graves, 4000, year old Neolithic flint mines.

This primitive skills 1-day course is an excellent opportunity to teaching you what is available from an animal’s carcass other than just the meat and has been described as “A real stone age awakening”.

The hunter gatherers of the past would have recognised that a hunted animal could provide a vast range of possibilities beyond the feast that it provided.

During the course, you will learn how to butcher a deer, cook the meat over an open fire and enjoy these delicacies for lunch. Then with the aid of flint tools such as scrapers and burins, you will create artifacts that were used during the stone age. Some typical items are shown in the picture below. There is also the option of tanning a small section of hide if you choose.

The course brings this period to life in a most valuable and resourceful way, as you begin to not only understand the time taken to produce small and effective life essentials, but it helps us to value how the whole animal can be consumed and honoured for the life that has been taken.

This course is available for £80 per person for a 1day experience where you have a truly memorable experience and make some new friends during your time with us.

To see the dates and book a place on this course please click here

Each day begins at 9.30am and finishes at 4.30pm

Location. Grimes Graves – Ancient Neolithic Flint Mine

Grimes Graves, Lynford, Thetford, Norfolk, IP26 5DE

This is a one day course teaching you all you need to know about arrow making for use in traditional longbow archery.

During the course you will make 3 complete arrows.

Hand make the shafts and learn how to set the spine in them correctly to match the bow you use.

Forge the arrowheads from sheet metal.

Splice and lace down the feathers to the shafts, plus reenforcing the nocks with buffalo horn.

The course runs between 9.30am and 4.30pm

The location is in Rougham near Bury St Edmunds Suffolk, full details will be sent to you near to the date of the event.

Drinks will be available during the course but please bring along lunch for yourself during the date.

ONE DAY SWORD MAKING COURSE

Come and make your own Bronze Sword.

This style of sword is called the Ewart Park Leaf and comes from the middle bronze age period approximately 3,000 years ago, Bronze age swords differ greatly in their design but very much portray the skill set of the early metal workers of the bronze age period. This style is not only elegant to look at but is also quite light for a sword weighing around 750 grams making it easy to use in battle.

Event held at Rougham near Bury St Edmunds Suffolk.

During this one day course, you will learn how to make a sand mould and pour your own bronze sword, The sword will then be cleaned up with adbrasives before the final polish and have handles fitted to them.

Finally you will make a leather scabbard for your sword.

Course times, 9.30am-4.30pm

These courses can accommodate 5 attendees.

FLINT KNAPPING COURSES

Try your hand at the ancient art of Flint Knapping.

Held at Grimes Graves Ancient Flint Mines.

Learn the skill used by our ancestors to create a range of tools such as hand axes, knives, arrowheads and axe heads.

For those with an interest in the prehistoric era, this course offers you a great opportunity to understand the features and characteristics of stone implements.

During the day you will be introduced to the tools that are used for Flint Knapping and shown how and when to use them, You will have clear and well-presented demonstrations of how to make a range of tools covering 3 Periods of the Stone Age, Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. This means you will be shown how to make a hand axe, blade core for tools such as saws and burins, plus pressure flaking for producing fine arrowheads. When your day ends you will be pleased to know you keep the items you have made.

The group course is available for £80 per person

Start time 9.30am, Finish 4.00pm

This course is self-catered but refreshments are included throughout the day.

The course takes place at Grimes Graves, at the 4000 year old Neolithic flint mines, in the heart of Thetford Forest in Breakland Norfolk. Your course includes access to the site and the use of the facilities there including the exhibition and the flint mine open to the public. (During its open season April till October.)

You can also book a personal one-to-one tuition with Will Lord where you will be able to have Will's undivided attention. This is often popular for those who wish to progress further with this complex craft.

BRONZE CASTING COURSES
Bring the bronze age to life and discover how metal became the new tool eventually replacing stone.
This is a two-day course held on the ancient landscape of Grimes Graves.
During the course you will make 2 bronze artifacts that will yours to keep.

Day 1 Morning build a furnace capable of reaching temperatures of 1300 degrees and smelt copper from malachite.
Build a smelting furnace, using natural materials such as clay, grog, horse manure and deer hair.

Using a set of hand-made bellows we then bring the furnace up to temperature, crush Malachite and roast it.
We then empty the crucible into the charcoal so it can percolate down and transform into a copper ingot.
We will then use the furnace to pour a bronze replica of an axe into a mould so you can appreciate the full story of how the bronze age period began.

Day 1 afternoon looking at lost wax casting techniques.
Lost wax casting.
During this part of the course you will explore how to work wax into models that you are going to cast into bronze, you will see different types of wax and learn how to shape weld and vent your project,
After making the model in wax you will be shown how to invest it into a mould for casting.

Once we are happy that your wax model is well invested, they will be stored overnight to dry out and prepare for burning out and firing on day 2.
Following this, using modern casting sand you will learn how to pack a mould properly into pre made wooden formers to flat cast bronze artifacts such as knives, axes and swords.

Day 2 Burn out and casting
Your second day involves warming things up, first you burn out the wax and raise the temperature of the mould, while this is happening we will mix copper and tin to create our bronze in a crucible using a gas furnace system, this ensures we have molten metal at the exact time we need it. once you have made your project we will clean away any flash or irregularities to produce a finished work of art in bronze.
This course can accommodate 5 attendants To place a booking and see available dates please view our online shop.
This two-day course is available for £375 per person. Spaces are limited so please confirm early. This course is self catered, refreshments included.

FLINT KNAPPING COURSES

Try your hand at the ancient art of Flint Knapping.

Held at Grimes Graves Ancient Flint Mines.

Learn the skill used by our ancestors to create a range of tools such as hand axes, knives, arrowheads and axe heads.

For those with an interest in the prehistoric era, this course offers you a great opportunity to understand the features and characteristics of stone implements.

During the day you will be introduced to the tools that are used for Flint Knapping and shown how and when to use them, You will have clear and well-presented demonstrations of how to make a range of tools covering 3 Periods of the Stone Age, Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. This means you will be shown how to make a hand axe, blade core for tools such as saws and burins, plus pressure flaking for producing fine arrowheads. When your day ends you will be pleased to know you keep the items you have made.

The group course is available for £80 per person

Start time 9.30am, Finish 4.00pm

This course is self-catered but refreshments are included throughout the day.

The course takes place at Grimes Graves, at the 4000 year old Neolithic flint mines, in the heart of Thetford Forest in Breakland Norfolk. Your course includes access to the site and the use of the facilities there including the exhibition and the flint mine open to the public. (During its open season April till October.)

You can also book a personal one-to-one tuition with Will Lord where you will be able to have Will's undivided attention. This is often popular for those who wish to progress further with this complex craft.

Seven Wonders of Warrioress

Discover the Warrioress Code and Live Your Life as a 21st Century Warrioress

 18th – 21st June 2019

Dear Beautiful Warrioress,

I personally want to invite you to an incredible, magical, life-changing, experiential retreat that no-one is offering anywhere in the world. I have undertaken my own quest to research, source and experience every element of this retreat as part of my own journey to claim and realise my authentic, intuitive, wild, creative and unique self. My Warrioress power is truly alive because of my life experiences, new adventures and a wealth of deep undeniable knowledge.

I know that my purpose is to share this journey and experiences so that as many wonderful women who are ready to discover, claim and ignite their power can live life with power, passion, truth, love and purpose and I have been guided to create this powerful and incredibly fun retreat for you. Laughter, inner growth, confidence, self-discovery and joy play a very big part of the experience and will connect you to your purpose and soul.

You may already be feeling the burning desire to attend this incredible retreat. If yes just realise that is your intuition guiding you that this is an important step in your journey, releasing and giving you newfound skills to commence your Warrioress journey. Imagine within 3 days you will receive this transformation, so you will no-longer be a slave to other people’s ideas of how you should live your life and become the women you choose to be, which is who you are meant to be. Live your life with and for a purpose, invest in yourself and positively impact those around you. I openheartedly welcome you to join me along with a small group of wonderful women who share the same desire and result.

I know that as part of this experience, you will not only realise your Warrioress power, but you will build long lasting relationships that will support you as you continue your life journey as a kick ass, sassy Warrioress.

Your intuition will guide you to say yes if this course is right for you and if you’re truly ready to claim your Warrioress power and live life to your highest potential. I know you have the power to make it happen as I have had the power to bringing this retreat together with the best team for this experience in a stunning location. I have provided further details about the retreat below for additional information. However;

 “I know that the magic cannot be written but experienced”

~Olivia Beardsmore

I truly can’t wait to meet you if yes is what you are feeling right now. Once you have signed up, I will be sending out an invitation for a FREE introductory Webinar as I would love to connect live in preparation for this transformational retreat, the “Seven Wonders of Warrioress”.

Blue skies,

Olivia x

Count Me In!

I am delighted to have the renowned and talented Will Lord as part of my amazing team.

What is a Warrioress?

A warrioress lives her life with purpose, power and passion.

What are the Seven Wonders of Warrioress?

You only chose once to become a warrioress because choosing alters your fundamental approach to live life on your terms - ordinary or with purpose, power and passion. Every warrioress has a code, an invisible code known by a select few that will be revealed in this experiential retreat. Once you know the code your soul will vibrate truth and you will be guided and empowered through every step of your life. Consciously choose to live your life with power, purpose and passion and become a 21st Century warrioress.

What will I experience?

You will experience empowering activities teaching you the Seven Wonders of Warrioress which will enable you to empower your own life and the lives of others all set in the grounds of a luxury of a Georgian mansion house in the heart of a 500 acre country park. You will become a warrioress from the inside out by creating items of power that harness the vision and the tool kit that represent the warrioress from the outside in. You will keep your own handmade sword and shield along with some surprises.You will be individually professionally photographed on the final day, dressed as a warrioress and photographed alongside all the wonderful women on the course who made the same decision as you to reclaim their warrioress power. You will dine and be catered for by professional gourmet chef, Fraser Christian, with a final banquet to celebrate the becoming of your true warrioress self.

What’s included

• Prior to the retreat you are added to a private Facebook group so you can introduce yourself and connect with the other women attending the retreat.

• 3 nights accommodation in a luxurious Georgian house.

• All rooms have two to three beds and you will share the room with one other woman.  Please identify the person if you have someone you’d like to share the room with.  Otherwise, you will be paired up with another woman in our group.

• Fully catered to your own dietary requirements.

• A banquet feast on the final evening to celebrate and honour your Warrioress Power.

• Make and keep your own Warrioress Costume.

• Bronze cast your very own sword, make the handle and sheath to keep it in.

• Make, keep and decorate your very own shield.

• 1 full body massage treatment

• Empowerment workshops with handouts and supplies, teaching you the Seven Wonders of Warrioress.

• You will be expertly guided and supported every step of this empowering experience.

• A photo-shoot of you and your fellow Warrioresses on the final day adorned in your Warrioress costume, sword and shield. These photographs will be supplied to you digitally to use on social media and have printed and framed as a daily reminder of your Warrioress power.

• No element of the course is compulsory but you will have the opportunity to do a fire walk in addition to other empowering exercises that provide bio-feedback on your self-belief, thinking and emotional responses.

• Special gift at the end of the retreat!

• Plus a few surprises…

No retreat should ever just be just a standalone event. After the event, you have access to 7 (1hr) weekly live webinars led by Olivia Beardsmore to review the Seven Wonders of Warrioress and how they are applying to your life. You can share your experiences with the women you met on the retreat and continue to develop your friendship as you support each other and receive insights and guidance.

Dates and time:  Tuesday 18th June 2019 - Arrival Time: 11am to Friday 21st June 2019 - Departure Time: 10am

Location

Set in a stunning Georgian Lakeside Mansion on a 500 acre country park in Allesley, Coventry.

The 250year old delightful and spacious Georgian Menagerie is a replica of that built for Marie Antoinette at Palace of Versailles. It is set within private grounds in a 500acre country park. You may even get to sleep in the four-poster bed, handmade from oak gifted to the owners by Prince Charles. The grounds offer a full view of the stunning lake, home to herons, kingfishers and otters. Sit by the fire pit on the sofa suite and enjoy the tranquillity and luxury this awe-inspiring environment gives to you.

The Experience

Seven Wonders of Warrioress is retreat like no other. Not only will you transform into a powerful, enlightened Warrioress on the inside but you will be transformed into a Warrioress on the outside too. This is incredibly powerful!

You know what’s it’s like to try on a new dress and how incredible that feels when you’re all dress up for a special occasion. Now imagine what it will feel like putting on your Warrioress costume that you will design from your Warrioress discovered self along with the support of a professional costume designer. Then you place your bronze cast sword in your hand and weald your shield adorned with your own symbolic design. You will be ready to hit the world with such strength and determination that not only will you empower your own life with every action and decision you make as well as influencing those around you.

With a powerful and professional photoshoot to record this life-changing experience, you my Warrioress girl are ready to achieve your purpose and be the woman you are meant to be. As you are surrounded by a new support network of women, guided through the experiences by a highly trained and professional team who already know and live by their Warrioress or Warrior power.

You had me at ‘truly happy’

Meet the team...

This looks incredible!

BRONZE CASTING COURSES
Bring the bronze age to life and discover how metal became the new tool eventually replacing stone.
This is a two-day course held on the ancient landscape of Grimes Graves.
During the course you will make 2 bronze artifacts that will yours to keep.

Day 1 Morning build a furnace capable of reaching temperatures of 1300 degrees and smelt copper from malachite.
Build a smelting furnace, using natural materials such as clay, grog, horse manure and deer hair.

Using a set of hand-made bellows we then bring the furnace up to temperature, crush Malachite and roast it.
We then empty the crucible into the charcoal so it can percolate down and transform into a copper ingot.
We will then use the furnace to pour a bronze replica of an axe into a mould so you can appreciate the full story of how the bronze age period began.

Day 1 afternoon looking at lost wax casting techniques.
Lost wax casting.
During this part of the course you will explore how to work wax into models that you are going to cast into bronze, you will see different types of wax and learn how to shape weld and vent your project,
After making the model in wax you will be shown how to invest it into a mould for casting.

Once we are happy that your wax model is well invested, they will be stored overnight to dry out and prepare for burning out and firing on day 2.
Following this, using modern casting sand you will learn how to pack a mould properly into pre made wooden formers to flat cast bronze artifacts such as knives, axes and swords.

Day 2 Burn out and casting
Your second day involves warming things up, first you burn out the wax and raise the temperature of the mould, while this is happening we will mix copper and tin to create our bronze in a crucible using a gas furnace system, this ensures we have molten metal at the exact time we need it. once you have made your project we will clean away any flash or irregularities to produce a finished work of art in bronze.
This course can accommodate 5 attendants To place a booking and see available dates please view our online shop.
This two-day course is available for £375 per person. Spaces are limited so please confirm early. This course is self catered, refreshments included.

GRIMES GRAVES ULTIMATE FLINT KNAPPING TOUR

Descend 4000 years into a rarely opened flint mine. Make your own flint axe head, and share in a juicy venison spit roast accompanied by a hearty vegetable stew lunch.

Only opened a few times a year to preserve its rich quality of being untouched, the Cannon Greenwells pit will be opened specially for you during this tour.

4000 year old antlers still laying where they were left by the miners.

Grimes Graves is the largest group of Neolithic 4000 year old Flint mines in the world located in Thetford forest in the heart of Breckland, during your day here you will get to go back 4000 years and experience how flint was mined and used during this period. After a magnificent and hearty lunch you then get to have a go at knapping a flint axe head of your very own. On completion of this day you will have;

– A good understanding of how to choose a piece of flint to make an axe head,

– A basic understanding of the principles of flint knapping,

– A spark of experience that will get you started on your journey to become an experienced flint knapper if that is what you would like to do.

Schedule of the day

9:00am Introductions; Where we all meet up for a brew or coffee and get to know one another.

9:30am Watch how the axes were made with a demonstration of Flint Knapping covering the main skills needed to produce flint tools.

10:00am Gear up; A brief trip to the museum to get fitted up with hats and harnesses, followed by the spectacular decent into the Cannon Greenwells Pit, a truly unspoiled experience that takes you back 4000 years in time.

12:30am The Feast; Go back in time and gorge yourself on a delicious Venison spitroast and some home made chunky vegetable stew!!

1:30pm The art of Flint Knapping demonstrated again to give you the chance to recall the techniques and skills of this ancient craft.

2:00pm The beginning; This is where you start your life journey as a Flint Knapper, pick up the Antler and stone and start striking Flint

4:00pm The conclusion; This is the end of the day, take a moment to step back and let the experience sink in, don’t say good bye, say good journey because you never know when we are going to see each other again