Hourly Schedule
Time
- 09:00
- Arrival, registration and refreshments
- 09:30
- Course starts
- 13:00
- Lunch
- Seasonal lunch prepared by our catering team.
- 16:30
- Course End
- Course ID ThBaIW
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What’s included
- Learn from expert tutors and technicians with demonstrations, guidance, and support throughout the day.
- Enjoy a seasonal artisan buffet lunch showcasing ingredients sourced from the Welbeck Estate and the surrounding local food community.
- Access our state-of-the-art facilities, with all ingredients and specialist equipment provided.
- Help yourself to unlimited refreshments, including tea, coffee, and cordials throughout the day.
- Wear a School of Artisan Food apron in class, with the option to purchase one to take home after your course.
Explore the powerful connection between baking and wellbeing on this unique one-day course with Ian Waterland.
Combining practical baking with positive mental wellbeing concepts, this specialist workshop examines how baking can become a mindful, therapeutic activity that helps create balance amidst the pressures of daily life.
Drawing on his experience as a mental health professional, artisan baker and educator, Ian has developed this course to help participants understand how the simple act of making bread can encourage focus, creativity, connection and a sense of achievement. Through a combination of discussion, reflection and hands-on baking, you’ll discover how baking can be used as a positive tool to support personal wellbeing and resilience.
Whether you’re interested in exploring therapeutic baking for your own wellbeing or looking to support others through baking activities, this course offers a valuable introduction to the principles and practices behind this increasingly popular approach.
What You’ll Learn
Through a combination of practical baking and wellbeing-focused learning, you will:
- Explore the relationship between baking, mindfulness and wellbeing
- Understand how creative activity can support positive mental health
- Learn about the “5 Ways to Wellbeing” and how they can be applied in everyday life
- Examine concepts and theories that promote positive mental wellbeing
- Discover how baking can encourage focus, relaxation and a sense of achievement
- Gain practical skills that can be used to incorporate therapeutic baking into daily life
- Wellbeing Topics Covered
During the course, you’ll explore:
- The “5 Ways to Wellbeing”
- Positive mental health concepts and approaches
- Practical strategies for building wellbeing through everyday activities
- Using baking as a mindful and therapeutic practice
- Developing personal wellbeing plans through meaningful activity
- Baking Topics Covered
Alongside the wellbeing sessions, you’ll learn:
- Fundamental bread-making techniques
- Dough handling and shaping skills
- The role of baking as a creative and rewarding activity
- How baking can support mindfulness, connection and wellbeing
- What You’ll Bake
During the course, you’ll make:
Handmade teacakes
Who Is This Course For?
This course is ideal for anyone interested in wellbeing, mindfulness, baking or personal development. It is particularly suited to those who would like to explore the therapeutic benefits of baking for themselves, as well as those interested in incorporating baking activities into wellbeing-focused settings and community projects.
No previous baking experience is required, just enthusiasm and a willingness to learn alongside fellow food lovers.
Please Note:
Whilst we make every effort to adhere to best practices regarding allergen control and cross-contamination at The School of Artisan Food, we sincerely regret that we are unable to cater for severe food allergies or coeliac disease. This is due to the continuous and varied use of our teaching spaces, common areas and food preparation areas.
If in any doubt, please contact us to discuss your individual circumstances prior to making a booking, as this will then enable us to produce a personalised Risk Assessment based on your own specific circumstances and better judge if we can safely accommodate you on site.
Your Tutors
Tutor
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Ian WaterlandAfter a career in health and social care, spanning both clinical and management roles, primarily supporting people with mental ill health, it was time for a rest, Ian took the plunge in 2013 and re-trained as a real bread baker.
The seeds of this radical life change were sown growing up, with a mum who made all of the families bread. Ian dabbled over the years making his own, with mixed results. A chance visit to a real bread bakery in Lyme Regis and a one day bread course got him thinking.
Fast forward a few years and Ian bought his wife a patisserie course at The School of Artisan Food. She loved the place, casually mentioned there was a year long course in bread and said “why don’t you do it?”
A few short months later and Ian was starting the Advanced Diploma at The School.
At the end of an amazing and inspiring course, plans were ready and within three months Knead Good Bread Artisan Bakery was born. Knead Good Bread ran successfully for eight years, building a real bread community in its rural Leicestershire location. The bakery grew and evolved over that time operating weekly pop ups from “The Bread Bus” in different villages, the addition of a wholesale offering and latterly a subscription and delivery model.
Ian always aimed to spread the word with ‘breaducation’ initially in his bakery and then more widely in the community, online and at The School of Artisan Food, where he teaches a number of short courses and was a founding tutor on the Foundation Degree in Artisan Food Production. He has developed a real passion for the therapeutic aspects of bread making and enjoys sharing the lessons he learned from establishing and running his own bakery.
The bread journey Ian embarked on, came full circle as he became The School of Artisan Food’s Managing Director from 2022 to 2024, whilst also continuing to teach on a part time basis.
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