Teaching Consent As A Life Skill at Forest School “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others”- Dr. Brene Brown Very few states require districts to address consent at all. In districts that do talk...
Nature Itself is the Best Physician “In clinical studies, we have seen that 2 hours of nature sounds a day significantly reduce stress hormones up to 800% and activates 500 to 600 DNA segments known to be responsible for healing and repairing the body.” – Dr. Joe...
Why Imagination is More Important Than Knowledge “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in...
What It Means to Belong “Most children fail in school not because they lack the necessary cognitive skills, but because they feel detached, alienated, and isolated from others and from the educational process.” – Dr. Peter Gray Our home in the forest at Aishling...
Why Mother Nature is the Greatest Teacher of All Time “Our role is not to change or control the world as a human, but to learn from the world how to be human.”- Robin Wall Kimmerer This past week, we welcomed our learners back into their home in the woods,...
