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Book SynopsisFor over four decades, Ruskin Mill Trust has worked with young people with special educational needs and behavioural issues who learn traditional crafts and organic farming as part of an integrated curriculum of therapeutic education, overcoming barriers to learning and re-engaging with the wider world. This accessible and inspiring book showcases how an appreciation of place, traditional crafts, farming and transformative education offers a wider route to human well-being for all. The authors outline the different fields of the Practical Skills Therapeutic Education method, which includes developing practical skills, learning the ecology of the farm and understanding therapeutic education, holistic care, health and self-leadership.
Taking the reader on a tour of Ruskin Mill's many extraordinary provisions across Britain, and going deeper in conversation with its founder, Aonghus Gordon, this book is an outstanding story of creative thinking in an age of narrow focus on classr
Trade Review
“Under the outstanding leadership of Aonghus Gordon, Ruskin Mill has set a superb example of selfless service in the field of holistic education. This stunningly inspiring and immensely powerful story of Ruskin Mill gives us the highest hope for a better future for humanity.”
Satish Kumar, Founder, Schumacher College and Editor Emeritus of ‘Resurgence & Ecologist’
“This book is a powerful reminder of the importance of the relationship of place to our physical and mental health and our overall sense of wellbeing. The Ruskin Mill approach reminds us to imagine what this can mean for us in practice.”
Patrick Holden, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Food Trust
“Under the outstanding leadership of Aonghus Gordon, Ruskin Mill has set a superb example of selfless service in the field of holistic education. This stunningly inspiring and immensely powerful story of Ruskin Mill gives us the highest hope for a better future for humanity.”
Satish Kumar, Founder, Schumacher College and Editor Emeritus of ‘Resurgence & Ecologist’
“This book is a powerful reminder of the importance of the relationship of place to our physical and mental health and our overall sense of wellbeing. The Ruskin Mill approach reminds us to imagine what this can mean for us in practice.”
Patrick Holden, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Food Trust
Table of Contents1. The spirit of place
2. Practical skills
3. Ecology of the farm
4. Therapeutic education
5. Holistic care
6. Health and the whole human being
7. Transformative leadership
