About Vicky Manning
Vicky Manning is a Therapeutic Wilderness Practitioner, trauma informed coach, forager and outdoor educator.
She has worked with both community groups and private individuals in Scotland for over 20 years.
Her passion for the outdoors and wilderness therapy activities was sparked as a child, spending time living and travelling with her Grandparents, foraging and collecting wild food and medicine for the pot and the store cupboard, and learning how to apply wilderness to wellbeing.
My Mission
My Ethos
- To work with small groups so I can provide a more personal and intimate learning experience.
- To educate about wild living with a therapeutic aim, through wild food, wild medicine, folklore, wild craft and bushcraft.
- Healing trauma through the power of the great outdoors and healing the Earth through compassion and connection
- To provide follow up support and guidance.
Timeline of the Forager's Kitchen
After completing an undergraduate degree in applied psychology, Vicky Manning moved to Oban, on the west coast of Scotland with her two daughters.
The Little Foragers Kitchen was born and during the first Covid19 lockdown of 2020 and Vicky switched temporarily online, to deliver sessions to empower people to safely forage and turn what they had gathered into both delicious food and healing medicine, and she joined the Association of Foragers.
Recognising the impact of social isolation on mental health and wellbeing and the healing power of being outdoors with Nature, Vicky trained with EQE Outdoors to become a Wilderness Therapeutic Practitioner to enable her to deliver outdoor programmes to support and empower people to take control of their own health and well being.
She has also completed certificates in trauma informed therapy with The Centre For Healing.
