The Wild Minds Podcast

In Episode 22, Marina looks at:

• Our mind's potential
• What is your Ecological Niche?
• Embracing the Nature-Centric Model.
• Choosing where to direct your attention.
• Fostering a quieter mind.
• Action as an antidote to anxiety.
• Humans as net contributors.
• What is the next moment of experience?

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-22-ecological-niches-unravelling-our-role/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 3, Episode 21:

In this week's podcast, I'm chatting to Angharad Wynne, who is a writer and storyteller, a place-maker and heritage specialist with over 25 years of experience in the field.

We dive into:

• Indigenous Spirituality from this land.
• The superpower of vulnerability
• What arises from the connection between people and place?
• Experiencing the world as inspirited.
• What it means to make sacred.
• What is sacred reciprocity?
• The need for mythos and logos.
• Honouring our known sense of connection.
• What does the Winter Solstice mean to us and our ancestors?
• A message of forgiveness, peace and caring for the other.
• What are we committing to with the returning light!
• 3% of influence. Taking responsibility for the way we choose to be in the world and find kinship.

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/angharad-wynne-podcast/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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In Episode 20, Marina looks at:

• How nature reminds us to listen and slow down
• The wisdom of trees
• What this time of year provokes and invites
• Remembering the importance of welcoming in the new and the strange

In this episode Marina is harder to understand due to a lingering cold, but the show must go on!

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/earths-whispers-embracing-winters-wisdom/

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 3, Episode 19:

For this Episode, my guest today is Rowan Salim, who is a geographer, facilitator, community gardener and storyteller who loves playing, making things, meeting people, and engaging in deep, slow learning.

I enjoyed how this conversation embraced ancestry, how we both value the hospitality and generosity of other cultures.

We begin to unpack the idea of progress in relation to the Story of Education, we touch on a consent-based, self-directed socio-cratic system of education.  

If we can learn outside boxes where children can grow up knowing the local places and spaces, then it may be possible to develop values that align to what we can sustain, and create more livelihoods that are based on relationships. 

We dive into:

• How our lineages and different places continue to inform us.
• Celebrating hospitality and generosity from other lands.
• Considering international development and what ‘progress looks like’ within ‘The story of education.’
• An introduction to Socio-cratic education – where children are accepted, which is not authoritarian or coercive.
• Equating education with schooling - is this indisputable?
• How we value certain knowledge over others and reduce the diversity of ways of knowing.
• The growing network of alternative in the UK and abroad.
• The role of the adult as facilitators to be ‘guardians of flow’ and be ‘play allies.’
• If we learn and making in many wilder spaces, then we can grow local economies and valued this again and what some tangible steps might look like – time, relationship and listening!

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-19-rowan-salim/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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In Episode 18, Marina looks at:

• The empowerment of educators and those who work with young people.
• What we have lost since the 1920’s, in terms of children’s roaming radius!
• The cultural lens of risk and play.
• How our own risk appetite affects us and what we do.
• Is using our hands for crafts, whittling and fire-making really that risky?

Risk is such an important subject that I will definitely keep coming back to, It links to healthy development, the opportunity for change and growth and help us to build self-worth and confidence!

Do get in touch if you want to add to this conversation and support positive change in our society.

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-18-are-you-risk-averse/

Watch my Webinar:

Why Risky Activities Are So Valuable For Children

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/courses/why-risky-activities-are-so-valuable-for-children/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 3, Episode 17:

Welcome back to Season 3 – thank you to all my listeners from around the world! I have some great conversations lined up for you for this season.  

My guest today is Tom Williams, the founder and co-director of Woodland Tribe and also the Business and Service Development Manager at Eastside Community Trust in Bristol.  

Tom has been a tireless advocate for adventure play throughout his life.

We are going to dive into the long history of Adventure playgrounds and how our attitudes to risk have changed over the last 40 years. 

This is a passionate conversation that helped me to imagine a society we could create. It made me think about how freedom and responsibility are both necessary, and lead to huge personal and collective benefits, as well as the real struggles of running a charity and getting insurance for more risky experiences.

We dive into:

• The concept of freedom in childhood and how it’s hijacked!
• The philosophy of adventure playgrounds
• How children are incredibly good at doing their own risk assessments
• How overprotection is damaging
• The impact of the cost of insurance
• And so many more interesting ideas to contemplate!

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-17-navigating-risk-and-adventure-playgrounds/

Watch my Webinar:

Why Risky Activities Are So Valuable For Children

https://www.theoutdoorteacher.com/p/why-risky-activities-are-so-valuable-for-children

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 2, Episode 16:

In this episode, Marina shares her new understanding about our planet’s water cycle and how we can begin to consider ways of cleaning our own water from our taps.

As the last episode of Season 2, I have added to the show notes a do-it yourself water filter kit and some links to the life-enhancing properties of bio-char!

This episode includes:

• Do it yourself Carbon-filter to remove a range of contaminants in the water coming out of your tap!
• The importance of soil and water in Climate Change.
• How the global water cycle regulates the climate and drives 70 -95% of the heat dynamics. The planet is a biotic pump!
• How rivers have the same architecture as blood in our bodies
• What we can do in our houses to have clean water
• Biochar (activated charcoal) technology could be used to filter water on a small and large scale.
• How wet woodlands capture the water and prevent flooding downstream!

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/what-does-healthy-soil-and-water-have-to-do-with-regenerating-life/

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 15:

My guest today is Deborah Barker, who brings 25 years’ experience of working in the rural economy, and creative arts in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

In this conversation, we discuss holistic ways of thinking about our ecosystem, the importance of soil, farming, and sheep and how the carbon cycles are intricately linked to the water and nutrient cycles. 

We dive into:

• The link between our extractive mind sets and climate change.
• The importance of soil, farming, and sheep! 
• How we can begin to rethink our relationship to clothes.
• Agro-ecology
• Examples of healthy functioning natural cycles
• Developing an understanding of reciprocity
• How we need to respect planetary boundaries and how local networking can contribute to carbon solutions.

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/regenerative-agriculture-and-approaches/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 2, Episode 14:

In this episode, Marina looks at:

1. The difference between nature connection and deep nature connection

2. The 5 pathways to Nature Connection described by Derby University (link below)

3. How different cultures and have a very different relationship with nature

4. Why attachment to place plays an important part in our development and well-being.

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/deep-nature-connection-and-the-importance-of-attachment-to-a-place/

Links:

https://www.derby.ac.uk/research/centres-groups/nature-connectedness-research-group/

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 13:

My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Professor Jan White, a leading thinker and writer on outdoor play and an advocate for high quality outdoor provision for services for children from birth to seven.

Jan is also an award-winning author and in addition to numerous other achievements, is the strategic director of Early Childhood Outdoors.

In this episode we talk about:

• The importance and purpose of childhood and outdoor play
• How the environment invites us and creates bonding
• We examine the term ecological identity and why we must protect the final frontier of outdoor play.

LINKS:

www.janwhitenaturalplay.wordpress.com

The Certificate In Outdoor Practice

www.earlychildhoodoutdoors.org

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/professor-jan-white/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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