Forest Schooled first began as an online blog where Caylin reflected on her greatest lessons and challenges while learning about and delivering Forest School programmes. She hoped sharing these stories would help give an “on the ground” and “in the real world” perspective of what it can look and feel like at a Forest School, where theories are put into practice and mud is found on boots (and sometimes on face and in hair). Forest Schooled, The Book is a bundled up collection of those stories documenting Caylin’s journey so far as she’s lived and worked with the Forest School ethos in three countries (England, the United States, and Canada) and with a variety of age groups and settings (urban city parks, rural forests, public schools, after care programmes, and more). Delivering Forest School in our modern world can be challenging. The hope for this book is to encourage you to pursue the challenge, find ease in making mistakes, reflect on learning, and appreciate the humour that comes with the messy, sometimes uncomfortable, but oh so deeply meaningful nature that is Forest School.
“I would definitely say that this set of stories is so meaningful that you cannot help but walk and live through these experiences. It is hard not to be touched by these tales, documented by Caylin from when she started her Forest School path, on training to become a level 3 practitioner, to well into her Forest School years. I would hasten to say of all the blogs about Forest School this is the one to read, as it gets to the nub of what it means to be a reflective practitioner.”
- Jon Cree, Founding Chair of the Forest School Association
