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The Wild Minds Podcast

The Outdoor Teacher

What if wild, not domesticated, should be our normal instead of factory-farmed lives? What if you could cultivate fulfilling lives and contribute to a healthy natural world? 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 Mental Health service in the UK. I am the founder of https://www.circleofliferediscovery.com (Circle of Life Rediscovery CIC) and

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52:33

The Children Are Ready - Are We?

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2026/10/05

In this episode, Marina looks back at the questions that came up at the *Outside for Everyone* webinar and asks why we adults find it so hard to take learning outdoors, and what we can do about it.In this episode:Why experiential learning sticks, and why we still find it so hard to take education outside"Backlinking": Juliet Robertson's idea of offering hands-on outdoor activities and linking them to the curriculum afterwardsHow outdoor learning fits the early years, primary and secondary

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01:19:34

Reimagining Inclusion - Forest School, Autism & the...

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2026/09/28

In this 100th episode of The Wild Minds Podcast, I'm in discussion with Michael James and Stefania Donzelli. We explore what Forest School and autism can teach us about difference, belonging, relationship and the ways we create environments where people can genuinely be themselves.We discuss:Why autism is far more than a diagnostic category, and what changes when we listen to autistic people’s own experiences and perspectives.Moving beyond the deficit model and questioning the assumptions of

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32:05

What Needs Pruning?

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2026/09/21

Welcome to episode 99 which was recorded in the middle of a sleepless night.A quiet, unscripted reflection on gratitude, grief, wildness and the autumn question of what needs pruning and what is ready to be harvested.In this episode:Begins with a gratitude practice for the stillness of the night, for time, and for simply being present.Reads Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese and reflects on letting “the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”Marina sits with grief and unease about the climate crisis,

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01:12:04

What if Nature is Part of Medicine?

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2026/09/14

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Ralph Mortimer-Roome, a GP based in Brighton and Chair of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex regional group of Greener Practice.We discuss what changes when we stop seeing health as something that sits only inside the individual body, and begin to include climate, community, relationship and the living world in how we understand healing.In this episode, we explore:Why the climate crisis is also a health crisis — and why solutions for planetary health can also support human

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01:17:34

The Music of Trees

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2026/09/07

For this episode, I’m joined by my husband Geoff Robb - musician, composer and co-director of The Outdoor Teacher, to explore his lifelong relationship with music and nature, and the story behind The Music of Trees.We discuss....Geoff’s journey from classical guitar and years of busking to becoming a professional musician, composer and creator of The Music of Trees.How his early experiences with Reiki and healing opened questions about music, creativity and where inspiration might come from.Geoff’s

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42:24

The Medicine of Belonging

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2026/06/29

As I record this onthe Summer Solstice - a moment when nature stands in its fullest expression, it feels like the perfect time to reflect on a season of conversations that, in different ways, have all pointed towards one essential human need: belonging.At the Summer Solstice, when the light reaches its fullest expression, we are invited to pause and ask what has ripened in us, what is ready to bear fruit, and what kind of power we wish to carry into the darker half of the year.The shift from Oak

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01:04:29

What If Your GP Could Prescribe Nature?

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2026/06/22

In this conversation, GP Dr Tim Rigg explores how nature, community and healthcare might come together to create a more humane, preventative and scalable model of wellbeing.Tim speaks from his experience as a GP, bringing together clinical practice, social prescribing, nature connection and a wider understanding of what helps people become wellHe explains that around 90–95% of healthcare contact happens in primary care, showing just how important GPs are in shaping the first conversation about

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23:31

Getting to Know the Plants

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2026/06/15

In this reflective solo episode, Marina explores how getting to know the plants around us can deepen our sense of connection, belonging and wonder. Drawing on a day spent teaching in the woods, she shares simple ways to slow down, engage the senses and discover the food, medicine, stories and lessons hidden within the plants we often overlook.Key TakeawaysWhy learning the names and qualities of individual plants changes how we relate to the natural world.How simple sensory activities can help us

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59:08

The Wilderness Cure: What Happens When We Eat the...

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2026/06/08

In this episode, I’m speaking with Mo Wilde - forager, research herbalist, ethnobotanist, author of The Wilderness Cure, and founder of the Wild Biome Project.Mo has spent decades learning from plants, fungi, seaweeds, medicine, soil and the seasons. Her relationship with the wild began in childhood, and has grown into a life’s work exploring not only what plants can offer us, but what happens when we remember ourselves as part of the living world.In 2020, Mo began an extraordinary experiment: for a

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55:15

Climate Anxiety Is Not the Problem

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2026/06/01

In this week's episode I am discussing how climate anxiety is not the problem. I will explore how we educate, support and practice in a time of climate breakdown without overwhelming young people or asking them to numb themselves to reality.Topics include:Climate anxiety is not the problem; unsupported climate anxiety is. Climate education cannot just give young people facts - it has to help them emotionally metabolise what they know. Emotional literacy needs to include the body, not just naming

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53:44

Can We Teach Climate Change Without Overwhelming...

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2026/05/25

Today I’m speaking with Jessica Newberry Le Vay, Senior Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, and part of Climate Cares - a global initiative based at Oxford and Imperial College London, working to understand and respond to the links between climate change, mental health and wellbeing.Jessica leads the Compass Project, a research programme exploring how climate change education can be integrated with mental health and wellbeing, so that young people are better

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39:03

Beyond ‘Just Play’: Understanding What Children Need

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2026/05/18

This episode explores the tension between “just play” and the deeper understanding of what children truly need to develop and thrive.Topics Include:Play is not a break from learning but the primary way children engage with and make sense of the world physically, socially, and emotionallyTrue play is child-led, intrinsically motivated, and process-driven, and when these qualities are removed it becomes task or instruction rather than playOutdoor environments offer rich opportunities for sensory,

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59:12

Restoring the Occupation of Childhood

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2026/05/11

In this 1st episode of Season 12, Restoring the Occupation of Childhood, I’m joined by Angela Hanscom, a paediatric occupational therapist, Author of Balanced and Barefoot.She is also the founder of TimberNook that programmes designed to immerse children in sensory-rich, authentic play in nature and are found in over 51 locations in 4 countries!Angela’s work invites us to look again at the rising challenges we’re seeing in children today - anxiety, attention difficulties and disconnection, and to

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44:20

Ceremony, Science and the Sacred

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2026/03/16

In this final episode of Season 11, Marina reflects on ceremony at a seasonal threshold, where science, spirituality and everyday life meet. As the light shifts toward spring in the North and autumn in the South, this episode explores what keeps us well - personally and collectively - and asks whether we are living as passengers or participants in our time.Topics include:Living at a threshold - Spring Equinox in the North, autumn descent in the South - renewal and death side by side.For most of

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01:21:12

Ceremony and Eldership

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2026/03/09

Sitting by the fire with Annie Spencer, we explore ceremony as lived relationship - with spirit, story, blood, grief, and the long arc from initiation to eldership - and what it means to keep dreaming a life-affirming world in times that feel increasingly divided.Topics include:Sitting by the fire together becomes a doorway into relationship - gratitude not as a nicety, but as a way of remembering life is alive, and not guaranteed.Ceremony, for Annie, starts with intention and beauty - not

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32:29

Saving Lives and Cultivating Health

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2026/03/02

In this episode, I step into what I’m calling the season of the amateur - asking big questions without claiming expertise. I explore how medicine is shaped by culture and worldview, what “evidence” really means, and how different systems - from biomedicine to Ayurveda - understand causation, illness and health.This isn’t a rejection of modern medicine - it’s an attempt to widen the lens. To ask what keeps us well, not only what makes us ill. And to consider whether we can hold scientific rigour and

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01:17:53

The Science of Life: What Ayurveda Can Teach Us

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2026/02/23

In this episode I’m joined by Dr Kanchan, an Ayurvedic doctor trained in India, to explore a radically different way of understanding health, not only as something we fix when it breaks, but as a lifelong relationship between body, mind, senses, environment, and meaning.This is a conversation about prevention rather than crisis, and about what becomes possible when health is understood as a living, relational process rather than a purely medical one.Topics include:Ayurveda is described as a

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38:32

Why Climate Education is a Health Issue

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2026/02/16

In this episode, Marina explores why climate education is a health issue by looking at what actually keeps us well, and what happens when the systems we depend on begin to destabilise.This is a reflection on the living world, on physical reality, and on why informed climate education matters at a time of change.Key points:She begins in gratitude for the living world, and how amazing this biosphere really is!Health is not something we create alone; it arises from stable temperatures, clean water,

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56:48

Climate Change, Health and Survival with Professor...

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2026/02/09

In this conversation, Professor Hugh Montgomery names climate change for what it is:A survival crisis driven by “radiation gain” and accelerating feedback loops. He cuts through denial, delay and mixed messaging with five simple moves anyone can make now - switch your power, move your money, change your food, shift your travel, and talk about it - then shows how asking seven others can cascade into mass action.We touch on real zero vs net zero, why money we can do now, and how unity across politics

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41:40

Together, We Can

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2026/02/02

Episode 82 invites listeners to arrive into 2026 with honesty, care and a sense of shared responsibility - not as individuals carrying the world alone, but as part of a wider web of life. Drawing on reflections from Jane Goodall’s work, seasonal change and lived experience, this episode explores how we stay present without panic. It asks what it really means to act with courage, dignity and relationship in uncertain times.Here are some of her reflections: Opening the year with Jane Goodall’s

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