All Episodes

Episode 252: Inessential Weirdness

Ep 251 - Preparing and Procrastinating

Ep 250 - Fires in a Heatwave?

Ep 249 - Clowning & Forest School w/ Ellie J A.K.A ClownDaddy

Ep 248 - Asserting Boundaries

Ep 247 - Intra-Relational Behaviour Support.

Ep 246 - Relational Capability Approach w/ Dr Wendy Russell

Ep 245 - Folklore and Neo-Enclosure w/ Nik Elvy

Ep 244 - Sustainable Soil Alliance

Ep 243 - New Site, PHDs & Slop Chat!

Ep 242 - Expectations VS Reality in 2026

Ep 241 - Ludobotany II: Loose Parts

Ep 240 - The Score by Thi Nguyen

Ep 239 - Community Woods with Susan Barker from Avon Needs Trees

Ep 238: 238 - Play Prophecies

Episode 237 — Tree Books! What to read, why it matters, and how it shapes practice

Ep 236 - "The Land" Documentary

Ep 235 - PARS Playworking with Dr Shelley Newstead

Ep 234 - Ludobotany 1: Tree Climbing

233 - Who can be a Failure at Forest School and What can they fail at? W Lily Horseman

Ep 232 - Biodiversity on our Bodies!

Ep 231 - Planning Experiments and Japanese Nursery Architecture

Ep 230- We Need Your Art: creativity, failure, and celebration in Forest School

Ep 229 - Save Ringsfield Hall with Mell Harrison of Kinda Education

228 - Creating Play Taxonomies with Max Alexander

Ep 227 - Inconvenient Resilience

Ep 226 - Bog Fashion at Forest School with Nicole DeRushie

Ep 225 - What defines 'Ready for School'? w/ Dr Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Ep 224 - Green Burials and Forest School Farewells w/ The Modern Mortician

Ep 223 - Combating Ash Dieback w/Dr Richard Buggs from Kew Gardens

Ep 222 - The Joys and Shapes of Autistic Play by Max Alexander

Ep 221 - Post-Humanism in the Woods: With Dr Jo Hume

Ep 220 - Is 'Leave No Trace' denying us a place in nature? with Danny English

Ep 219 - Giants and Beasts with Ruth Webb: Part 2

Ep 218 - Giants and Beasts with Ruth Webb

Ep 217 - Tangents, Shrews and Robin Ince

Ep 216 - Ecology and Wildlife Legal Protections with Tilly Tilbrook

Ep 215 - Culture Soup and a Catch-Up

Ep 214: Consistency is a Myth

Ep 213: Is making kids tidy up a part of Forest School?

Ep 212: Does Forest School need more 'Clean' Language?

Ep 211: 'Total Observation' isn't helping childhood

Ep 210: 👥🧠Groups have memories, but communities have history. 🌲📚

Ep 209: ‘Forecasting’ or being ‘Triggered’? How do you react to uncomfortable play?

Ep 208: 🌳A review of Sandi Toksvig’s Great British Woodland Project!

Ep 207: The Art Of Folk Traditions: A Conversation with Ben Edge

Ep 206: Nature Saturation: Can You Have Too Much?

Ep 205 - How Schools Push Kids to Burnout: A Conversation with Dr Naomi Fisher

Ep 204: Season 2 Begins: Lone Working, Weird Job Titles & Fart Consultancy

Ep 203: How Transparent Should You Be With Your Planning? With Lily Horseman

Ep 202: Can Rory Sutherland's 'Alchemy' Transform your Forest School Business?

Ep 201: Should YOU Know A Tree As An Individual Or A Species? w/ Casey and Alex from Completely Arbortrary

Ep 200 BONUS: Oops, All Song Wars!

Ep 200: Listener Questions and looking back over 6 years and 200 episodes.

Ep 199: How to Handle Unsafe Play in Your Sessions

Ep 198: Is YOUR Outdoor Provision just résumé building for children?

Ep 197: Is Verbal Language Bias Shaping Your Forest School?

196: Why YOUR School Needs More Stories Like Jojo & Gran Gran with Laura Henry-Allain

Ep 195: How Scripts Can Transform Your Toughest Parenting Moments With Kirk Martin

Ep 194: How YOU Can Run Intergenerational Projects That Work with Kendra McWilliam

Ep 193: 10 Hacks to learn bushcraft faster than I did!

Ep 192: Unconventional Essentials for Mud Kitchens

Ep 191: What Neurodivergent Kids Gain from Nature with Dr Sam Friedman

Ep 190: The Art of Saying No at Forest School

Ep 189: A Conversation with Emma Brockes

Ep 188: An Owl Based Info-Dump

Ep 187: Unleashing Nature's Gym: Movement Reimagined with Andrew and Gill from Wildstrong

Ep 186: Can false memories actually enhance our connection to nature?

Ep 185: Creating Non-Judgmental Spaces in Forest School

Ep 184: How do you make adults be friends?

Ep 183: The positive and pitfalls of being lifelong learners as leaders with Nicki Farell from Raising Wildlings PART 1

Ep 182: Is Encouragement Ableist?

Ep 181: I wasn't Finished With That Yet

Ep 179: Queer Planet with Lizzie Wild

Ep 178: International Forest School Reasearch Symposium 2024

Ep 177: Interview with Dr Mark Leather

Ep 176: Unconventional Essentials #1: Dressing Up Clothes

Ep 175: Why do teenagers disconnect from nature and what can we do to help?

Ep 174: The Biophilia Effect - Book Review

Ep 173: Renaturing School Playgrounds: The Challenges and Opportunities Engaging Children with Nature in Urban Areas with Nina Lovelace

Ep 172: Where do Retired Forest School Leaders Go? With Sara Knight and Jon Cree

Ep 171: Matrescence and Forest School with Lucy Jones

Ep 170: Measuring a Springboard's Success

Promoting Play in Schools: A Conversation with Michael Follett of Opal Outdoor Play and Learning

Reggio and Forest School with Jessie Zhao

Embracing the Pause: A Conversation on Improvisation, Leadership and Discovering Your Flow with Robert Poynton

Corvid Corrections & The Pulse of Play

Exploring Spirituality, Death, and Nature with Rachel Summers

Confronting Childism: A Conversation with Gentle Parenting Author Sarah Ockwell-Smith

Modeling the value of land-based and ancestoral knowledge in a modern education setting, with Peter Kindfield.

Bonus Ep: Surprise Student #1

Bonus Ep: Pedagogy Surgery #1

Bonus Ep: Pop Culture Pedagogy

What can we learn from Nature Disconnected people?

Loose Parts Part 2: Even Looser Parts. Dangerously Loose Parts

The 200 things you need to run FS. PLUS song wars collaboration!

Join us for a Live New Years Quiz episode!

Yule Celebration and 2023 Review

Interview with Heather Shumaker. Author of 'It's OK not to share' and 'It's OK to go up the slide'

Practitioner Spotlight: The Elves and Fairies Woodland Nursery in Verwood, Dorset