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Forest Educator with Ricardo Sierra | A Podcast for Revolutionary Conversations about Nature-Based Education

Welcome to the Forest Educator Podcast hosted by Ricardo Sierra. Join Ricardo as he engages in enlightening conversations with educators from across the globe who are revolutionizing nature-based education. Drawing on his 35 years of experience in wilderness education, Ricardo shares practical insights, tools, and best practices to inspire and support forest educators and camp staff worldwide. Tune in twice a week for interviews with passionate educators and skill spotlights that delve into the

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Episode 123 - The Discovery Process at the Walden...

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2024/08/08

If you could learn or study anything, what would you choose? If you had ample time, space and a little support, could you learn and grow as a person? Can you develop your own style of creativity, or relationship to the discovery process?These are the questions that the Walden Project explores, with a small group of teens who take a school year away from 'regular' school, get college credit, get out in nature and have a unique educational experience. As a lead educator and program

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49:46

Episode 122 - Forest Educator Spotlight: When Things...

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2024/08/05

If you haven't been in a situation where something happens that is unexpected, then congratulations! You probably have an amazing overworked program director who is really NAILING IT as far as logistics, details, staff training, student screening and daily monitoring of everything in your program! Enjoy it while it lasts. Live the dream!If, on the other hand, you know what it's like when things go sideways, or headfirst into the ditch, metaphorically speaking, then this episode is for

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Episode 121 - Adventures in Ethnobotany with Zak Baker

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2024/08/01

To many (most?) people in our current culture, nature is a literal 'wall of green' that contains plants, trees, vines, bushes and shrubs, all interwoven in a way that is virtually indistinguishable from each other. It can seem impenetrable, and overwhelming, even, to begin to make sense of it. If you are thinking of actually eating some of these wild foods, or using them medicinally, the stress factor can jump into the red zone almost instantly. My guest this episode has spent years around

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Episode 120 - Forest Educator Spotlight: The Power...

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2024/07/29

I'm pretty sure we could all benefit from reducing the frenetic pace that seems to go hand in hand with our modern culture. It's a great topic, but it's not what I'm describing in this episode! Instead, I've spent most of my time on two of the most important tools in my 'nature awareness' toolkit that I know. They are based in mindfulness practices that have helped me immensely in multiple ways in my life, and in my nature education programs and trainings. They focus on very subtle body awareness

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Episode 119 - The Value of Soft Skills and Deep Land...

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2024/07/25

Life in the Great White North can be cold and hard at times, but that makes the warmer seasons all the sweeter, from Maple Syrup Season to Sumac Gathering and so much more. The power of nature is reflected in daily life, and living close helps us see the metaphors and parallels that we echo in our own human cultural patterns.Join Chris Gilmour and I as we explore forest educator training, youth adventure, stories of beaver ponds and much more in this episode. Chris shares powerful lessons that

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Episode 118 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Survival...

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2024/07/22

It was early August, in Harlemville New York. It was a six week immersion into the natural world, in one of my first 'wilderness skills learning intensives', with just a few tools, a blanket and a desire to see the world from a different perspective.This episode is a recounting of some of my adventures with wildlife, and why I still can't stand roasted apples. Thank you to the listeners who have been asking for more stories. These are for you! Forest Educator Bonus Content

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Episode 117 - Forest Educator Spotlight: The Value of...

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2024/07/18

In the olden days, before the internet, when you ran a workshop or a skills class or wild foods program, you could usually skip the student evaluation forms and questionnaires. Participants just 'got the experience' and that was the deal. There wasn't any trolling, or review bombing, because there were no online reviews. You might get a letter, if people felt a certain way about your offering, but often times it was something positive rather than negative.In 2024, however, outcomes and

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53:41

Episode 116 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Navigating...

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2024/07/15

It's one thing to have a 'vision' or idea that is inspiring and exciting and full of hope and promise. It's also a WHOLE other thing to actually bring it into the real world, grounded and fully expressed and achieving outcomes.When we take that leap into the unknown, it's scary, risky, stressful and even wonderful; a lot of intense emotions all rolled into a kaleidoscope blender that most of the time, we are not fully prepared to handle. Sometimes, we even have unexpected 'inner barriers' that

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Episode 115 - The Visionary Work of with Monica...

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2024/07/11

There are literally piles of research about the benefits of contact with nature for human beings, and most of the time, we think of 'forest experiences' primarily for children. Monica Eastway shares her work with people who are in their 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, and why nature is vital for this segment of our community. She shares stories of how nature experiences improve the quality of life for those in managed or skilled care facilities, and her quest to facilitate change as a true paradigm

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Episode 114 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Harnessing...

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2024/07/08

Ever since I was a kid I was always fascinated by the concept of 'time'. I know I am not alone, because it's a pretty popular theme over the last four decades or so. Madeline L'Engle's Wrinkle In Time was one of my first steps into a different world. The time differences in the world of Narnia was pretty interesting! Then came the wildly unexpected Time Bandits and the fun of Back to the Future. The Time Lords and Dr. Who. The resetting of time in Edge of Tomorrow high stakes battle for

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73:30

Episode 113 - Change, Adaptation and Evolution- How...

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2024/07/04

If there is a defining moment for nature education in the past five years, it always seems to be found during the Covid Pandemic. It was in this time that we see major shifts in the way we work, teach, learn and grow, as it accentuated the many changes that children, youth, families and adults were already showing prior to the coronavirus, and virtually all nature programs felt the effects. In this episode, Jason Knight of Alderleaf shares how his organization responded to these forces, and how

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Episode 112 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Preparing...

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2024/07/02

There is one thing that is certain in our world, whether or not we 'believe' in climate change, and that is that our lives and the lives of our young students, is going to change. A lot. Being adaptable, fluid, responsive and creative are key necessary ingredients to have if we want to be able to handle change in a positive way. Most people struggle with even minor changes in their lives, especially when we have no control over what is happening. It can be debilitating and anxiety producing

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56:41

Episode 111 - The Origins of Nick Hulley, Social...

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2024/06/27

I've always been able to quickly tell the difference between someone with years of actual hands on experience in bushcraft, nature skills or crafts, from those with just a little. It's seen mostly in the way that skills are presented, or how the preparation is put in, or in the choice of words in a social media post or photo description. When four or five tiny things begin to add up, I start paying attention, and then it becomes obvious. When I first began seeing Nick Hulley's LinkedIn posts, I

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Episode 110 - Forest Education Spotlight: What's in a...

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2024/06/24

Some Forest Educators seem to create amazing program and organization names effortlessly, with titles that evoke strong feelings, qualities and almost magnetic pull that draws in people excited to participate. Some of us have to work REALLY HARD to get names that are 'fair' or serviceable, after a long process and hours of crystal ball gazing. The fact is, finding a great name is both an art AND hard work, and it's something that takes a bit of intuition, luck and even a group of friends

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Episode 109 - Community Supported Nature Programs...

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2024/06/21

In a small town in Texas near Fort Worth, there is a program that seems to do everything. On the surface, they seem like a typical summer camp, but they do so many other special things that serve the local community: Bereavement camps. Project Wild education. Fishing & Angler Education. Private Retreats for Adults. Off Season School Groups. Wilderness Survival or Science Themed Summer Camps (day and overnight). Alumni Programs. (This list goes on and on.) Jen Smith is the Vice President of

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Episode 108 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Portals Into...

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2024/06/17

When it comes to nature awareness and personal awareness, I've found it useful to see and perceive it in a few different ways. Sometimes I see it in a mythological or 'rite of passage' perspective, and other times, I see it more from an 'awareness and perception' perspective.In this episode, I share some of the stages of awareness my campers, or students or staff have gone through in their journey into the world of nature, and how we all balance our lives in the Known and Unknown worlds, and

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Episode 107 - Understanding the Challenges of the...

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2024/06/13

When we remove all of the 'non-teaching stuff' that surrounds our profession, we educators are left with an opportunity- to connect with the 'still maturing' mind of our young students. We can have all the trappings and bells and whistles and laptops or digital projectors or classroom props and decorations, but if we don't have the ability to make a real, personal, one on one connection to these human beings, we won't really have a positive, lasting impact. Wendolyn Bird shares from her decades

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Episode 106 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Are Nature...

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2024/06/10

There is no question that being in nature is 'healing' in both a practical and therapeutic sense, because this has been demonstrated in an impressive list of nature focused studies by researchers in several different countries from reputable academic institutions. In this episode we dive into the different 'layers' of healing, from several different perspectives, and discuss how nature education can have significant positive impacts on both adults and children. There are a lot of different

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39:03

Episode 105 - Understanding the Challenges of the...

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2024/06/06

When we remove all of the 'non-teaching stuff' that surrounds our profession, we educators are left with an opportunity- to connect with the 'still maturing' mind of our young students. We can have all the trappings and bells and whistles and laptops or digital projectors or classroom props and decorations, but if we don't have the ability to make a real, personal, one on one connection to these human beings, we won't really have a positive, lasting impact. Wendolyn Bird shares from her decades

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Episode 104 - Forest Educator Spotlight: The Alchemy...

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2024/06/03

There are so many powerful learning elements that are part of the expansive topic of 'Food', it's hard to know where to start. When it comes to nature based learning, campfire cooking and 'hearthcraft', we can start with campfire circle design, hardwood vs softwood firewood, cooking utensils and the like. Or we can just jump right into the cooking, and get our flavor receptors firing with more traditional methods and means. We can even go full foraging style, to include gathered berries, teas

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