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In this two part episode, we’re chatting with Nikita Fitzpatrick, owner and creator of New Dreaming Art, about her journey to becoming a First Nations artist and business owner, cultural awareness, appropriation and how to connect with your own First Nations community.

👉  Nikita Shares

• Her background and heritage
• How New Dreaming Art came to be
• How creating art helps her in her everyday life
• About the creative space of teaching
• The vision of New Dreaming Art
• How her art makes her feel
• Where she draws her inspiration for teaching from
• The most important part of her lessons
• How she feels about non-first nations teaching indigenous art and education
• The best ways to connect and help local First Nations communities
• The hardest and best parts of running a business as a mother
• About the balance of business and motherhood

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Nikita Newley is a self-taught, second generation artist and proud First Nations woman from all parts of Queensland. Currently living on Gubbi Gubbi Country, Nikita was born on Gurang Gurang Country, with heritage connected to Wuthati tribe and Darumbal people. She found her passion creating art through her emotions and cultural connection. New Dreaming Art is about connecting old with new in a respectful way. Bringing new stories to life and sharing acknowledgement to the First Nations people.

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Welcome back to Raising Wildlings — where we explore raising brave, resilient, curious kids who feel at home outdoors.

If you're an educator ready to bring more nature play and child-led learning into your Early Years program, our Bush Kindy Professional Development Workshops are for you. You'll walk away with practical tools, risk-benefit strategies, and the confidence to take learning outside in a way that's safe, meaningful, and genuinely exciting for

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Today I’m joined by clinical psychologist, Carla Anderson, who understands the importance of supporting parents during the perinatal period and has some helpful tips for both new parents and our wider village. 

👉  Carla Shares:

• Her background and what brought her to this work
• The vision of Perinatial Child and Family Hub
• The biggest barriers parents face while seeking out help
• The causes of stress and anxiety in parents today
• How Social Media impacts parenting in this modern age
• About maternal separation anxiety
• About attachment theory
• How do we communicate effectively to our partners
• How to navigate through all the different information on parenting
• *Trigger Warning* About parental grief and how we can best support our friends or get support for ourselves

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Carla is a clinical psychologist and director of the Perinatal Child and Family Hub, with 20 years of experience providing psychological services for individuals and families during the perinatal period, parenthood and supports for children and youth. Carla is also a mother to three young adults.

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Welcome back to Raising Wildlings — where we explore raising brave, resilient, curious kids who feel at home outdoors.

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You know this podcast is just a small part of what we do at Wildlings Forest School. So if you want to find out more about our range of programs for children, our professional development workshops for educators, our free downloadables, blogs or our online store, just head to wildlingsforestschool.com. It's all there waiting for you. Come and join the village.

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In this episode, we’re chatting with our dear friend, Cat Green, all about how to introduce your kids to herbs and basic herbal skills, her top 3 herbal remedies to always have on hand in family homes, how to get kids involved in wildcrafting, including basic safety rules, and how to create a family culture of holistic herbal healing. 

👉  Cat Shares

• About fostering nature connection through herbal remedies
• How to introduce kids to herbs and basic herbal skills
• The top 3 remedies to always have on hand in family homes
• Simple herbal recipes and how to make them
• How to get your kids involved in wildcrafting, including basic safety rules
• About ethical foraging
• How to create a family culture of holistic herbal healing
• How to get started using natural remedies as a mom - even when you're totally new

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Dive into her Herbal Medicine Books
Get involved in her Seasonal Living Project

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Cat Green, homeschooling mum and owner of Everyday Empowered specialises in herbal medicine, seasonal living. From herbal kits, to online herbal courses, non violent communication to screen smart family workshops, Cat is all about prioritising holistic health and breaking it down in to a range of simple skills and habits you can use every day to understand and respond to your body’s mind-body-soul messages. By collaborating with a range of skilled practitioners and educators she aims to equip you with skills to help you build your holistic tool-kit for understanding and looking after your own health and life.

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Welcome back to Raising Wildlings — where we explore raising brave, resilient, curious kids who feel at home outdoors.

If you're an educator ready to bring more nature play and child-led learning into your Early Years program, our Bush Kindy Professional Development Workshops are for you. You'll walk away with practical tools, risk-benefit strategies, and the confidence to take learning outside in a way that's safe, meaningful, and genuinely exciting for

You know this podcast is just a small part of what we do at Wildlings Forest School. So if you want to find out more about our range of programs for children, our professional development workshops for educators, our free downloadables, blogs or our online store, just head to wildlingsforestschool.com. It's all there waiting for you. Come and join the village.

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In this episode, we’re chatting with artist, creative producer and co-creator of Ngamumu (For Mothers) Lia Pa’apa’a about how to support mothers and their babies through Arts & Cultural practice during the first 1000 days.

👉 Lia shares

• What her work in arts and cultural practice looks like
• Her journey to this work
• How Ngamumu came to be
• The importance of creative and cultural connections and practice, especially in young people
• About her ancestral diet
• About food as a frontier war tactic
• How post-colonial places have lost ancient wisdom about the birthing process and in turn, created birth trauma
• About bringing culture to the forefront of your child's development through food, play and values.
• How motherhood has impacted her projects
• The importance of the intergenerational aspect of Ngamumu
• About Ngamumu’s ability to curate their babies and their own experiences during this sacred time of the first 1000 days by tapping into their ancestral and creative practices.
• Where her work is headed in the future

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Book Recommendation:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Relationship is the Project

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Lia is an artist, creative producer and mama who has cultural connections to Samoa and the Luiseño nation in Southern California. She is the co-creator of Ngamumu (For Mothers) alongside Kuku Yalanji artist Merindi Schrieber and is deeply passionate about supporting mothers to curate their babies and their own experiences during the sacred time of the first 1000 days by tapping into their ancestral and creative practices.

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In todays episode, we are going to be talking all about the sex education. So just a little prewarning, if you have yet to start this conversation with your family, it may be the time to pop in those earphones to put this podcast on privacy mode. It’s an important topic, so join me as we reframe the way sex education needs to look for our modern times. 

👉  Natalie Shares

• Her own sexual education experience
• How “Tell your Daughters” got started
• Pleasure anatomy vs reproductive anatomy 
• Feeling based sex education vs fear based sex education
• The nuances of consent 
• About her parent survey and the results so far 
• Where our children are getting their sex education
• About the terms privacy and secrecy
• How we can approach the porn conversation
• If sex education in schools encourages grooming
• When we should have ‘the talk’
• How the understanding of anatomy diversity has been censored

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Natalie Stokall is the founder of Tell your Daughters. Originally from New Zealand, Natalie has called the Sunshine Coast home for 12 years now. She has two daughters, a tween and a teen, and she has always cared deeply about raising empowered children. She has a Masters in Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Gender and Women’s Studies and training with the Institute of Sexuality Education. She knows body positive and pleasure based sex education is the way of the future.

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When little people are overwhelmed, it is our job to share our calm, not join in the chaos.
- L.R. Knost.
Well, how do we actually do that in today’s modern world? That is what Helen Boniface from Calmer Kids is talking about on today’s episode.

👉  Helen shares

• How a stress response impacts the body
• The beauty of breath
• Why learning and wellbeing cannot be separated
• What happens to us internally when we experience anxiety
• About the tolerance window
• About co-regulation and how can it help our children
• How we can make meditation with children work
• Her observations from working with children and teaching mindfulness and yogi practices. 
• Key micro actions and questions we can ask ourselves before reacting to the situation when we are having a moment with our children
• How we can create a habit of mindfulness with our children and ourselves when we overwhelmingly feel pressed to find time for anything
• Why wellbeing is important for everyday - managing emotions, meltdowns and anxiety

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We have invited one half of the amazing Calmer Kids duo, Helen Boniface, to help us shift our approach to wellness through the support and maintenance of healthy minds in Australia. Sisters and co-founders of Calmer Kids, Helen and Michelle share a collective 28 years teaching experience in the fields of Education, Yoga and Mindfulness. They created Calmer Kids to help make simple and effective wellbeing tools accessible for every child and family.

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In this episode, we find out what it takes to make a great learner with the help of the very well known education expert and researcher, John Hattie.
 
👉  John Shares

• About his book, 10 Steps to Develop Great Learners and where the research has been drawn from and the aim of writing the book
• How he narrowed it down to 10
• What works BEST to increase learning (in schools).
• About the 10 mind frames
• Why it is so important to let kids be kids and fully experience their childhood in the present moment
• What a Listening Parent is
• The three main components of executive functioning 
• The power of feedback
• How to frame struggle and failure
• About the Matthew Effect
• About the presence of dignity of risk
• How to trust our children
• What to do when you don’t know what to do
• Why children lose the excitement in learning
• How to improve wellbeing in schools
• Why we still have homework
• Why you must choose a teacher, not a school
• The Goldilocks principle of Expectation and Encouragement
• How to promote a ‘language of learning’ in the home

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VISIBLE LEARNING: 10 STEPS TO DEVELOP GREAT LEARNERS
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Powerbroker: Robert Moses Biography by Robert Cairo

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John Hattie is Emeritus Laureate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. H is on of the world’s best know and most widely read education experts and his Visible learning series of books have been translated into 29 different languages and have sold over 1 million copies.

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In this episode, we’re chatting with Laura Matthews from Wildhood Bush Kindy in Wooloongong, NSW about the hurdles and perks of starting your own Wild Business. 

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• Her journey from nannying, to event management to owning her own Wild Business. 
• All about Wildhood Bush Kindy programs
• What makes Wildhood unique
• Why she decide to take the leap to purchase our Intro to Bush Kindy course and start her own Wildhood Bush Kindy
• The benefits she has seen in the children in her programs
• The hardest part of starting Wildhood
• The best parts of owning a Wild business

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I help children and families to fully immerse themselves in nature so they can build a life-long love of the outdoors. People are attracted to my brand because I provide experiences and activities that are almost completely nature based. They have a mix of risk, mess, sensory and challenge. I strive to create opportunities for children to think outside of the box, show resilience, build persistence and grow in independence.

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In this episode, we’re talking with women's circle facilitator, doula and small business mentor for mums, the fabulous Rachael Rose.

👉  Rachael Rose Shares:

• About her story and how she helps women
• About women's circles, pregnancy & mothers circles and their impact on modern day revillaging
• How we can create community and heal through storytelling and sharing.
• Her creative expansion through Motherhood
• How the education system is similar to the maternity system.
• The scariest and hardest things about starting her own business
• Why she has chosen to be so open about money and why she feels it important to do so
• How she cycles money to mums
• About homebirth and homeschooling stereotypes and how you don't need to be a certain kind of person to want to do either
• Her family’s approach to homeschooling

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Rachael Rose is a mother of 2, a women's circle facilitator, a doula and small business mentor for mums. Her facilitation style is nurturing, mother-centred and full of love and humour. Rachael is utterly obsessed with being a connector and community builder. She is about to start travelling the East Coast of Australia in a caravan with her partner and two kids, spending the next 12 months unschooling and running women's circles on the road. Together, her Women's Circle Facilitator Training, has over 130 women learning about the art of holding circles in their communities.

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In this episode, we’re talking to Dr Arne Rubinstein about Rites of Passage and why they’re so important, how to create them and when to know your children or yourself might be ready for one. 

👉  Dr. Arne Rubenstein shares

• About his journey and how he ended up here, creating the business of Rites of Passage
• The five main issues most men are dealing with
• The true meaning of a Rite of Passage
• How Rites of Passage are regenerative 
• What Rites of Passage used to look like and how and why has that changed
• Why our children, here in Australia, and across a western world, need Rites of Passages
• The types of Rites of Passage he offers
• How everyone can bring these Rites of Passage in at home
• About the need for these Rites of Passage to be gendered, approximately aged based, milestone based, ect.

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The Rites of Passage Institute
The Making of Men by Dr. Arne Rubinstein 

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Archtypes of Initiation – Robert Moore
King Warrior Magician Lover - Robert Moore
A Fortunate Life – AB Facey
Soulcraft – Bill Plotkin

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Dr Arne is the CEO and Founder of the Rites of Passage Institute. He has over 30 years experience as a medical doctor, counsellor, mentor, speaker and workshop facilitator. The programs, seminars and camps he’s helped to develop have been attended by more than 350,000 people globally, while some of the largest schools in Australia have implemented the framework effectively. The programs are designed to support boys and girls successfully make a safe, healthy transition into adulthood. His goal is to make Rites of Passage mainstream once again. Dr Arne is the proud father of two wonderful young men and a mentor to many others.

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