OUR WORKSHOP

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO A PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE.

A Place of Learning, Reflection, and Craft

Listen to your surroundings. You won’t need a dust mask, eye protection or ear protection. Welcome to a safe place at a human pace. Welcome to Wisdom Through Wood.

In the open-air workshop, you’ll have your own pole lathe, draw horse and hand tools. We’ll guide you through the experience you seek — in a way, and at a pace, that suits you.

Woodworking workshop outdoors with various woodworking tools, logs, and saws, surrounded by trees.

Wisdom Through Wood ·  The Workshop

A person using a hand plane tool to smooth a piece of wood in woodworking.

Wisdom Through Wood ·  Traditional hand tools are used

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.”

Hermann Hesse

SERVICES WE OFFER

We offer one to two woodworking courses each month, year-round, ranging from one to nine days. We also coach people through woodworking projects (in the workshop or at their place) and undertake commissions. We also have school groups through the workshop, facilitate team building and professional development programs and demonstrate at shows.

Close-up of wood shavings and bark on a wooden surface with sunlight. Wooden furniture in the background.
Woodworking workshop with a wooden chair in front of a window, various tools and wood pieces on the workbench, and a forest view outside.

OUR COURSES

Our courses range from one to nine days. The longer courses are not more difficult, they simply go into more detail and you experience a broader range of tools and techniques. 

DAY COURSES

Intro to green woodworking • Learn to carve a spoon

Our one day courses include an introduction course to green woodworking and twice a year we run a spoon-making course. This is for people who want to explore a special strand of traditional woodworking. The intro course introduces you to the wonder of traditional green woodworking. 

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SHORT COURSES

Become a green woodworker • Make simple green wood furniture

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LONGER COURSES

Make a green wood chair


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Various axes and hatchets laid out on a wooden surface, with some metal tools including a caliper and a black marker positioned at the bottom.

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”

Marcel Proust

OUR APPROACH TO LEARNING

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Matt Holden
Instructor • Wisdom Through Wood

We believe every human has vast potential to learn, is deeply clever, holds boundless creativity and can do wonders with their mind, heart and hands.

We also know many learners have not had teachers who listen to them and act respectfully towards them. Thus, many people do not know what great things they are capable of. Like creating a beautiful three legged stool from a log of wood in two days with no prior woodworking experience. 

We'd welcome the opportunity to help you uncover and embrace your learning potential.

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