The Wild Minds Podcast

Season 2, Episode 12:

Marina Robb talks about the importance of consent and power, and how so often we don’t realise how this operates in our lives. She also discusses some core ideas within the field of Rewilding Education and Wild pedagogy.

In this episode, Marina looks at:

• How power shows up in our relationships & schools

• How consent and choice lead to agency and self-esteem

• The Compass of Rewilding Education

• The Touchstones of Wild Pedagogy

Wild Pedagogies: Six Initial Touchstones for Early Childhood Environmental Educators (B.Jickling; S Blenkinsop; M Morse; A. Jensen 2018) Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol 34 (2) 159-171, 2018.

https://www.rewildingeducation.org/what-tools-can-we-use-to-navigate-our-way

The Wild Minds Podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb, an author, entrepreneur, Forest School and Nature-Based Trainer and Consultant, and pioneer in developing Green Programmes for the Health Service in the UK.

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/rewilding-power-dynamics-and-wild-pedagogy/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 2, Episode 11:

My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Dr Max Hope.

Max is Director of Rewilding Education, a collaboration which strives to find ways to make education wilder, freer, more grounded, and more consensual. They are co-facilitator of Call of the Wild, a Devon-based year-long programme which supports participants to develop personal and professional skills as well as igniting a soul-level connection with the living world.

They co-lead The Lodge, a self-directed, consent-based learning community for home educated children in Herts/Essex which aims – not to rewild – but to support children and young people to stay wilded and stay connected in the first place. They also run Write On Changemakers, an online and in-person project which encourages and supports activists and changemakers to write.

In this episode we talk about:

• We are going to discuss what does it mean to ‘rewild ourselves’?
• When do people stop being ‘wild’? in the first place
• What does it mean to rewild education?

LINKS:

https://maxhope.co.uk

https://www.rewildingeducation.org

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/rewilding-education/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Advanced Certificate in Forest School and Outdoor Learning

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/certificate/

Season 2: Episode 10:

Marina talks about the link between the Climate Crisis and Mental health.

Balancing what can seem quite hopeless, with some information about how our health systems in the UK are responding, as well as looking at how our medical models are beginning to include social and green prescriptions as an additional or alternative route to wellness. 

Topics include

• How the Climate Crisis could implicate self-harming

• The biopsychosocial approach

• Introducing Green care models and Green Prescriptions

• Celebrating a Natural England Grant to provide funding to train NHS staff in our Certificate in Nature-based Practice

The Wild Minds Podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb, an author, entrepreneur, Forest School and Nature-Based Trainer and Consultant, and pioneer in developing Green Programmes for the Health Service in the UK.

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/climate-change-mental-health-and-green-care-models/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 2, Episode 9:

My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Dr Alan Kellas MBBS BA MRCPsych

Alan trained in medicine and qualified in 1981, worked in General Practice in the NHS, lectured at Bristol University Department of Psychiatry, and was a community NHS Consultant Psychiatrist from 1998 – 2013.

He has been a member of the sustainability committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, nationally, from its origins in 2014, as Green care and Nature Matters rep, until 2022. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/nature-matters

He helped set up the Eco-CAMHS faculty group and Nature Matters networks in RCPsych and was an active part of the core advisory team developing the College response to the Climate and Nature crisis, whose position statement was released in May 2021.

Read the statement here

The key message of this statement include:

Climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss:

• have created a health crisis and it is imperative that psychiatrists are informed about it and actively engaged in these issues.

• are interconnected factors which individually and collectively have a profoundly destructive impact on human and planetary health. Our actions and their impacts will be inherited by the generations to come.

• have particular implications for mental health and disproportionately affect vulnerable groups, including persons with pre-existing mental illness and children.

In this episode Marina and Alan talk about:

• What is Psychiatry?

• How Nature supports our Psychology

• The link between the Climate Crisis and Mental Health

• How the natural world plays an essential part in our development

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/psychiatry-our-climate-crisis-and-mental-health/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 1: Episode 8

In this last episode of Season 1, Marina looks at:

• Risk and vulnerability
• Our need for rest and play
• Not giving up on asking 'Why!'

The book referenced in the podcast is 'Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto' by Tricia Hersey (2022 Aster Publishers)

Shownotes: https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/risk-rest-and-wild-play/

The Wild Minds Podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb, an author, entrepreneur, Forest School and Nature-Based Trainer and Consultant, and pioneer in developing Green Programmes for the Health Service in the UK.

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Advanced Certificate in Forest School and Outdoor Learning

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/certificate/

Season 1: Episode 7

My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Lily Horseman.

Lily has been following the threads of play, nature, community, and connection through many different roles over the last 25 years. She came to work with children through Playwork and with marginalised families in the late 90’s.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Wildness, wild play and uncharted territory
• Risk and our comfort zone
• Does our culture value play?
• Our diminished roaming radius and outdoor life experiences
• Not giving up our WHY?

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/wildness-wild-play-and-uncharted-territory/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 1: Episode 6

In Episode 6, Marina looks at:

• How stress feels in the body.
• The importance of giving words to our sensations and emotions.
• The idea of place attachment
• A few ideas to improve our ability to emotionally regulate.

Shownotes: https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/stress-and-mental-health/

The Wild Minds Podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb, an author, entrepreneur, Forest School and Nature-Based Trainer and Consultant, and pioneer in developing Green Programmes for the Health Service in the UK.

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 1: Episode 5

My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Alison Roy.

Alison Roy is an experienced Psychotherapist, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, author, specialist consultant and trainer. Her experience has taught her to understand how important our communications are and how they can enhance or inhibit our relationships in every aspect of our lives.

​She is invested in helping others to build more healthy relationships through meaningful conversations and enabling people to be more resilient, creative and resourceful.

In her work with individuals, couples, families and groups she focuses on the deep significance of early attachments and the impact of trauma and loss on the personality. As the co-founder and previously the Clinical Lead for the CAMHS and East Sussex specialist adoption service – AdCAMHS, she has learned much from those who have experienced significant losses, shocks and challenges in their lives and just how complicated life can be. She has also written a book about adoption, a chapter about education through the arts and contributes regularly to the press and mainstream media.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How nature as our first home is part of a healthy mental health. 
• How gratitude is not necessarily instinctive.
• Metaphors that help us to understand ourselves.
• That some children will only engage when they are physical, so the need to be outside and move is paramount.

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/5-alison-roy/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

Twitter: @alisonroy20

Linked in: Alison-Roy

Website: www.psych-communications.com

A For Adoption: Book on adoption:

https://www.routledge.com/A-for-Adoption-An-Exploration-of-the-Adoption-Experience-for-Families-and/Roy/p/book/9780367439477

Trauma stories training for professionals. Contact Alison through her website or email her on: [email protected]

Creativity in education and children in distress. Alison has written a chapter in a book called Education through the arts:

https://www.routledge.com/Education-through-the-Arts-for-Well-Being-and-Community-The-Vision-and/Burke-Cunningham-Hoare/p/book/9780429318115

Reflective practice groups – Alison facilitates reflective practice groups for public, community based and private sector organisations. See:

https://www.psych-communications.com/consultation-and-training

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Advanced Certificate in Forest School and Outdoor Learning

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/certificate/

Season 1: Episode 4

In Episode 4, Marina looks at:

• Noticing the rules that are in place and asking if we had a part in designing them at all?
• What teachers are taught in their training.
• How a teaching mind-set shift may be helpful.
• A classic outdoor myth.
• Exploring the key benefits of this approach to learning.

Download my free guide on Outdoor Learning Myths, co-produced with The South Downs National Park:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/do-we-make-up-the-rules/

The Wild Minds Podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb, an author, entrepreneur, Forest School and Nature-Based Trainer and Consultant, and pioneer in developing Green Programmes for the Health Service in the UK.

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Juliet Robertson is a leading outdoor learning consultant, author of 2 popular books, who is living with a terminal illness. Before becoming a consultant, Juliet was a head teacher at three schools. Her other experience draws on a degree in environmental science, as an archaeologist, conservation, outdoor education and years in mainstream teaching, including as a head teacher.

Her well-loved blog, Creative Star, (https://creativestarlearning.co.uk) is a must-visit resource full of excellent outdoor learning tips.

●   Talks frankly and tenderly about her terminal illness.

●   Brings all her experience to this conversation, sharing the potential of outdoor learning and outdoor play.

●   Emphasises that you don’t need a qualification to take learning outside and the preciousness of play.

●   Challenges the cultural assumption that real learning only happens indoors.

●    Reiterates that the outdoors is not a ‘subject’, rather an essential place of learning any area of the curriculum.

The Wild Minds Podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb, an author, entrepreneur, Forest School and Nature-Based Trainer and Consultant, and pioneer in developing Green Programmes for the Health Service in the UK.

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/juliet-robertson/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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