HeyJaredThe Forest School Podcast
Wem Southerden & Lewis Ames have run Forest School and training centre Children of the Forest since 2017.
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Episode 252: Inessential Weirdness (opens the original)
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Wem and I get into a concept neither of us had a name for until this week: inessential weirdness. It comes from a video by organisational psychologist Pippi Kessler, and once you've got the term you start seeing it everywhere. We open with my Ofsted saga (someone reported me to Ofsted over a cropped screenshot of me singing with a puppet, long story, I passed with zero concerns), then get into the real conversation. Pippi's video looks at activist groups and asks what actually alienates working
Ep 251 - Preparing and Procrastinating (opens the original)
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In this episode, Wem and I chatted about feedback from previous episodes, preparing for incoming winter seasons, and whether it's possible to 'procrastinate' at Forest School. www.patreon.com/theforestschoolpodcast to support us www.children-of-the-forest.com for CPD weekends and more!
Ep 250 - Fires in a Heatwave? (opens the original)
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This week Wem and I get into something that's been rumbling through forest school Facebook groups all summer: fires, heatwaves, drought, and where individual choice ends and collective responsibility begins. It started with a post about forest school leaders lighting fires during the current UK drought, and the pile of comments underneath it. Some people were arguing it's down to individual practitioners, their training and their risk benefit assessments. Others were pointing at local fire servi
Ep 249 - Clowning & Forest School w/ Ellie J A.K.A ClownDaddy (opens the original)
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This week I'm joined by Ellie J, known online as Clown Daddy. I first came across her work online and knew straight away that forest school leaders and outdoor educators would get something out of hearing how she thinks about performance, status and play. Ellie trained as an actress at NYU before studying at the famous L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, sometimes called clown school even though it teaches far more than that. She now works as an actress, clown and puppeteer
Ep 248 - Asserting Boundaries (opens the original)
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This week, Wem and I chatted about Boundary setting and picked through Kami Orange's book of boundary scripts and frameworks!
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