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If teaching about the importance of Hydration and Nutrition on days out and expeditions is an important - then so is teaching about Excretion.
We all know how we do it ourselves - but is this the only way? the best way? The right way for everyone?
Discussing the issues, developing best practice and signposting to some resources and ways to approach what can be a bit of a socially-awkward conversation when people are not used to discussing such things!
Who is it for?
Anyone who takes groups out into the countryside away from toilets - whether for a day, or a week.
Anyone who currently avoids having to brief a group, or their teachers and parents, about to what to do if …….
Anyone who trains outdoor professionals
Anyone who wants to be more aware of best practice.
Learning Outcomes
Challenging our thinking about discussing excretion and personal hygiene in outdoor and remote environments
Increased awareness of issues around toileting, menstruation and personal hygiene in the context of various outdoor learning environments and different client needs.
Teaching Resources - 7 Ps - Pees Poos Periods Products Pollution Privacy Personal hygiene.


Elspeth has worked as employee, freelancer, a subcontractor, director and been in business as a sole trader, a partnership, a limited company. Seeing it from both sides helps know where differences in expectation between the ‘hired’ and the ‘hirer’ can arise. And where the grey areas are in law and common practice.
Having started Mere Mountains and grown it from just myself as a Sole Trader to a Partnership to a Limited company employing others and needing 50 instructors on mad weeks in the NCS programme days, I’ve learned that there are a lot of things are assumed, and typically we all assume and expect different things based on our past experience. I’m still learning that good working relationships like any other relationship need give and take, clear boundaries and good communication.
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