In this episode, I speak with a firm favourite in the Grow Free Community.  One of our practitioner members, Jon Cree was one of the key pioneers of Forest School in the UK, a director of The Forest School Association UK and co-author of The Essential Guide to Forest School & Nature Pedagogy.  He is also an emerging expert in nature-based approaches for working through trauma. 

Jon is delivering three workshops with us in Aberdeenshire in May this year.

• Together in Nature - nervous system attunement in nature for practitioners and peer supporters
• Involving All, Evolving Play - consent-based , play-led learning for practitioners, educators and parents
• The Power of Connection - a weekend immersion exploring somatics and storytelling. 

This conversation teases out some of the language we have used to describe the workshops, finding the phrase 'Fit to Play' as a common thread connecting them all. 
We cover themes such as:
- how the multi-sensory world of nature helps us to hold BIG feelings and share life experiences
- the neurobiology of healing
- relational attunement and how it helps to re-focus attention and re-discover delight in the energy of life
- how to walk alongside each other and the more than human to feel our natural state as one of profound interconnectedness, feeling it counteract anxiety

A beautiful conversation with a beautiful bloke, igniting our excitement for him coming in May. 

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