Building connections to places we weren't born in...
How do we help people of all backgrounds feel welcome and a sense of belonging to the places we live? This was a question that came up...
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Well-being
Posts discussing topics related to well-being, including the impact a Forest School approach has on physical, social, and mental health
Forest Schooled
- Jul 1, 2021
- 6 min
Starting a Program from Scratch Again (Or not)... Part 3
Learning about and reflecting on all that I don't know We often say, "Start with what you know"... but what if we said instead, "Start...
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Forest Schooled
- Jun 10, 2021
- 4 min
Loss, Grief, and the Forest
This post is deeply personal and I've hesitated to even write it, let alone publish it publicly. Yet writing has become a way of...
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Forest Schooled
- May 6, 2021
- 3 min
Remembering to say thank you
The best ones always seemed to be at the top of the tree. By the time they’d fallen to the ground and we happened to stumble upon them...
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Forest Schooled
- Mar 29, 2021
- 1 min
Play is what makes us human!
This is a recorded chat with my sister Chelsea where we reflect on the role of outdoor play in our lives as children growing up in...
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Forest Schooled
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Starting a program from scratch again (Or not)... Part 2
Several months ago I shared a bit about my desires and reservations for starting up a new program since moving to a new place. See...
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Forest Schooled
- Jan 17, 2021
- 6 min
Supporting behaviour through relationships, instead of rewards and punishments...
"What do you need to feel safe?", I asked. "I don't want to get hit by sticks!", he said. I was standing between two boys whose play had...
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Forest Schooled
- Dec 31, 2020
- 5 min
A year of learning to listen
I stood at what seemed like the edge, but the truth was I couldn’t really tell where it ended or began. An expanse of pure white...
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Forest Schooled
- Sep 27, 2020
- 5 min
Starting a program from scratch again (Or not)... Part 1
Over three years ago when I moved countries from England to the USA I was full of inspiration from all the things I'd learned while living
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Forest Schooled
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
Storytelling Resources
Ever since gathering a group of storytellers together at the start of the global shutdown in 2020 for weekly livestreams, I've been getting
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Forest Schooled
- Jun 14, 2020
- 6 min
Considering Ecological Relationships, Impact, and Reciprocity in our Outdoor Programs
Okay I have something to confess... it’s been a weight on my shoulders (and on my ecological conscience) as an environmental educator. It's
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Forest Schooled
- May 26, 2020
- 6 min
Forest School Perspectives: Making Space for Diversity in Practice
This blog was first shared by the UK Forest School Association. You can view that post HERE.
Imagine something exciting happened to you an
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Forest Schooled
- May 9, 2020
- 5 min
Learning when to stop asking children questions, even when it's in the name of “inquiry”
I’ve written before about my use of questions to prompt or assist children (and adults for that matter) to consider something more deeply..
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Forest Schooled
- Mar 29, 2020
- 4 min
The Power of Slowing Down...
I'm not very good at slowing down. Wait, let me rephrase that.
I'm getting better at slowing down.
For example, I woke up this morning to
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Forest Schooled
- Mar 24, 2020
- 4 min
Reframing the Meaning of Community in Changing Times
I delivered a webinar yesterday in collaboration with Eastern Region Association of Forest & Nature Schools called Reframing the Meaning...
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Forest Schooled
- Mar 13, 2020
- 3 min
Thinking of Cedar
These are uncertain times. At moments I find myself feeling a stirring in my chest. Like a tightening. Not pain. A discomfort. I know what
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Forest Schooled
- Jan 11, 2020
- 3 min
Do I do Forest School for the children? Or do I do it for me?
It's winter. A time of year in the northern hemisphere where days are short, vitamin D is lacking, I feel like hibernating, but modern...
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Landere Naisbitt
- Dec 1, 2019
- 10 min
Guest Blog - Early Childhood Ways of Knowing:
How Kindergarteners Teach Me About Nature Connection and How to Live in Healthy Relationship with the Earth This is special. This...
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Forest Schooled
- Nov 3, 2019
- 3 min
Forest Schooled Evolves... Again
Well, I’m dusting off the ol' Forest Schooled keyboard. It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog here. Life moves and sways, shifting...
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Forest Schooled
- Sep 1, 2019
- 3 min
Forest Schooled, The Book
Okay, you know that feeling when you have an idea and then someday that idea becomes a reality? It's an amazing feeling and one I am so...
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Forest Schooled
- May 9, 2019
- 1 min
Is the forest really magic?
I've been branching out on blog writing and am sharing my stories on other pages in addition to Forest Schooled. Follow the link to find...
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Forest Schooled
- May 1, 2019
- 2 min
Facing Colonization in our Work with the Land
& Building our Understanding of Indigenous Perspectives Growing up in the United States, and more specifically Hawaii, it always felt...
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Forest Schooled
- Apr 27, 2019
- 5 min
Lessons learned from starting programs from scratch...
After starting a handful of programs from scratch, there are so many things I’ve learned from the process. (See Starting a Forest School...
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Forest Schooled
- Mar 24, 2019
- 9 min
Integrating Forest School into a Public School Day
In the Starting a Forest School Program from Scratch series I described the steps I took to get a couple of programmes up and running in...
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Forest Schooled
- Feb 10, 2019
- 7 min
Exploring what Place-based means in Forest School...
The word "place" comes up a lot in this work, with Forest School being described as a means for learners to gain a "sense of place,” an...
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Forest Schooled
- Jan 5, 2019
- 6 min
Intervening in Children's Play...
This is a tough one for me to write, but here goes... One of my missions in Forest School and even through writing this blog has been to...
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Forest Schooled
- Dec 16, 2018
- 3 min
Delivering programs at night...
This has been a really exciting time of year for me because it's the first time I've delivered Forest School sessions in the dark! I...
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Forest Schooled
- Nov 18, 2018
- 3 min
Play is not just for early childhood...
Specifically since moving to the US, I feel like the phrase "play is not just for early childhood" has become a kind of motto for me....
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Forest Schooled
- Aug 12, 2018
- 4 min
Forest School and Place
This is an extremely delayed notice letting you know that I took the summer off from Forest Schooled. I've spent the past couple of...
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Forest Schooled
- Jun 3, 2018
- 1 min
A History of the UK & US Forest School Movement
If you've been following along with me over the past several months, you may have caught my ramblings here and there about how I'm...
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