Children’s Forest Journey
Planting trees in the ground and hope in hearts
Start your journey here to share in the principles and practices of the Children’s Forest and how to bring nature connection into the planting and tending of forests for the future generations.
About this course
What is the Children’s Forest Journey?
The Children’s Forest Journey is a 6-month program to offer nature-based education leaders practical, creative tools and a framework to initiate and plant Children’s Forest projects with your groups in your local areas. You will be guided through the Four Step Journey and given guidance, mentorship and resources that will support your nature programs. Learn how planting trees can deepen the journey for the children, as we restore our forests ecosystems and our experience of ourselves a beneficial, caretaking key stone species.
Why choose this journey?
Transform the Vision of a healthy world for the future generations into Reality
On this course we will explore some of the following themes:
- Consider what are the gifts of human beings as a key stone species
- How to plant trees in a meaningful and connective way through a head, heart and hands approach to restore both our culture and our environment.
- How tending our relationship with ourselves, each other and the land restores our world.
- Connect with a global network of Forest School & outdoor educators
- How to uplift and restore heritage knowledge of the trees, plants and animals through skills such as foraging and tracking in the landscape.
- How planting native fruit and nut species is important for food sovereignty, ecological restoration, and biodiversity.
- Tools for developing nature connection practices for yourself and groups.
- Explore how our imagination holds a vital key to responsible action and creative solutions.
- The power of song, story and the creative arts to develop future generational thinking.
- How to work with schools through curriculum objectives within the context of a Children’s Forest project.
- Children’s Forest as a bridge between landowners and nature deprived communities.
- Bring the richness of ecology into Forest School practice and education through the ongoing tending of Children’s Forest.
- Meet guest speakers offering expertise and experience
- The Forest from Seed project – how to gather and plant native tree seeds: developing reciprocal relationship with nature.
Who is this course suitable for?
Adults working with groups in nature or those wanting to deepen their personal nature connection pratice.
What is the Exchange?
TBC.
Any donations received will help sustain the longevity of Children’s Forest and support the planting of more forests for future generations.
Thank you for being part of this shared circle of care. 🌱
Terms & Conditions
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Meet your mentors
Anna Richardson: Founder of the Children’s Forest, Anna is an experienced forager and nature mentor who shares her expertise and enthusiasm for rediscovering the uses of wild plants for food, medicine and practical craft with people of all ages. Over the last 20 years her interest in plants and traditional skills has developed through practicing, training and teaching bushcraft, plant spirit medicine, and forest school work. A fiddle player and singer, Anna also brings her love of music and appreciation of the folk tradition as a source of inspiration and celebration of our connection with the natural world.
Pippa James: Pippa has 25 years experience of working with land, designing and making ecological gardens. She has taught Permaculture for over 20 years and has been passionate about inspiring people to develop their own connection to a piece of land to grow food for families and communities. She has created the first Children’s Forest tree nursery, facilitating children to grow native trees from local seed, for planting Children’s Forests.
Erica Shorter: Erica has been learning and playing in nature as a Forest School Leader and Nature Connection Mentor for over 10 years. She is happiest wandering barefoot in the forest and brings a flavour of deep nature connection into her work with children and adults. She is informed and inspired by the 8 Shields and is passionate about creating spaces for people to deeply connected with nature and their inner landscapes.
