The Forest School Podcast
Lewis Ames and Wem Southerden
Wem Southerden & Lewis Ames have run Forest School and training centre Children of the Forest since 2017. The Forest School Podcast was born when they wondered if their daily wafflechats and reflections about pedagogy, play and nature connection might be of interest to others.The podcast aims to inform and support educators, parents, outdoor and play practitioners and anyone interested in nature and the outdoors.Through book reviews – interviews with experts, practitioners and authors – sharing...
Episodes (255)
Ep 201: Should YOU Know A Tree As An Individual Or A Species? w/ Casey and Alex...
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Ep 200 BONUS: Oops, All Song Wars!
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Ep 200: Listener Questions and looking back over 6 years and 200 episodes.
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Ep 199: How to Handle Unsafe Play in Your Sessions
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Ep 198: Is YOUR Outdoor Provision just résumé building for children?
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Ep 197: Is Verbal Language Bias Shaping Your Forest School?
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196: Why YOUR School Needs More Stories Like Jojo & Gran Gran with Laura Henry-A...
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Ep 195: How Scripts Can Transform Your Toughest Parenting Moments With Kirk Mart...
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Ep 194: How YOU Can Run Intergenerational Projects That Work with Kendra McWilli...
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Ep 193: 10 Hacks to learn bushcraft faster than I did!
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Ep 192: Unconventional Essentials for Mud Kitchens
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Ep 191: What Neurodivergent Kids Gain from Nature with Dr Sam Friedman
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Ep 190: The Art of Saying No at Forest School
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Ep 189: A Conversation with Emma Brockes
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Ep 188: An Owl Based Info-Dump
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Ep 187: Unleashing Nature's Gym: Movement Reimagined with Andrew and Gill from W...
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Ep 186: Can false memories actually enhance our connection to nature?
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Ep 185: Creating Non-Judgmental Spaces in Forest School
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Ep 184: How do you make adults be friends?
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Ep 183: The positive and pitfalls of being lifelong learners as leaders with Nic...
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Ep 182: Is Encouragement Ableist?
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Ep 181: I wasn't Finished With That Yet
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Ep 179: Queer Planet with Lizzie Wild
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Ep 178: International Forest School Reasearch Symposium 2024
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Ep 177: Interview with Dr Mark Leather
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Ep 176: Unconventional Essentials #1: Dressing Up Clothes
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Ep 175: Why do teenagers disconnect from nature and what can we do to help?
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Ep 174: The Biophilia Effect - Book Review
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Ep 173: Renaturing School Playgrounds: The Challenges and Opportunities Engaging...
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Ep 172: Where do Retired Forest School Leaders Go? With Sara Knight and Jon Cree
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Ep 171: Matrescence and Forest School with Lucy Jones
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Ep 170: Measuring a Springboard's Success
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Promoting Play in Schools: A Conversation with Michael Follett of Opal Outdoor P...
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Reggio and Forest School with Jessie Zhao
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Embracing the Pause: A Conversation on Improvisation, Leadership and Discovering...
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Corvid Corrections & The Pulse of Play
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Exploring Spirituality, Death, and Nature with Rachel Summers
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Confronting Childism: A Conversation with Gentle Parenting Author Sarah Ockwell-...
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Modeling the value of land-based and ancestoral knowledge in a modern education...
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Bonus Ep: Surprise Student #1
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Bonus Ep: Pedagogy Surgery #1
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Bonus Ep: Pop Culture Pedagogy
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What can we learn from Nature Disconnected people?
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Loose Parts Part 2: Even Looser Parts. Dangerously Loose Parts
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The 200 things you need to run FS. PLUS song wars collaboration!
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Join us for a Live New Years Quiz episode!
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Yule Celebration and 2023 Review
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Interview with Heather Shumaker. Author of 'It's OK not to share' and 'It's OK t...
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Practitioner Spotlight: The Elves and Fairies Woodland Nursery in Verwood, Dorse...
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'Learning Stories' as a tool for assessment at Forest School
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