The Wild Minds Podcast

In episode 34, Marina defines outdoor learning and shares practical examples of its implementation in schools. Additionally, she explores the broader social and economic context we live in and questions if our education system should provide more opportunities for young people to understand political and economic processes, especially with the backdrop of the upcoming UK General elections.It seems remiss to spend 14-16 years in education without grasping basic democracy and economics, and giving young people a platform to voice their ideas. As we develop a practical climate curriculum, addressing these wider systems is crucial.In this Episode Marina discusses: The significance of outdoor learning and nature-based education within a broader social and economic context.Balancing respect for boundaries with personal growth and environmental sustainability is essential.Outdoor learning supports children's healthy development, attachment, and self-regulation, and should integrate the best educational research.Valuing diversity and sustainability in outdoor learning, along with co-creating outcomes with children, is vital.Education and society must urgently adapt to climate change and environmental degradation.Outdoor learning, experiential education, and community involvement are key to addressing these challenges.Show Notes: https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/the-what-and-why-of-outdoor-learning/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.comPlease Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

We're kicking off Season 5 with an inspiring interview featuring Linda Dupret, a former headteacher with extensive experience leading an urban-based primary school. Linda's passion for the outdoors drove her to integrate nature into mainstream education. I believe it’s crucial to provide young people with as many opportunities as possible to connect with nature. Outdoor learning, including approaches like Forest School, not only boosts wellbeing but also creates engaging educational experiences. In this episode, Linda shares how she incorporates elements like fire and tools into teaching and normalizes outdoor learning in everyday curriculum. This conversation is packed with examples of offering a broad curriculum, enhancing emotional health, and fostering a sense of belonging through outdoor learning.We dive into:Reasons why teachers may be hesitant to take their classes outdoors for learning.Whether a lot of green space is necessary to offer Forest School skills or outdoor learning.How teachers can provide evidence of outdoor learning and its importance for Ofsted inspections.The benefits of incorporating crafts, den-building, and fires into school activities.How outdoor learning engages children, supporting multiple learning environments beyond the classroom.The importance of teacher confidence in conducting outdoor activities safely and effectively.Suggestions on how schools can fund equipment and basic resources needed for outdoor learning.Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-33-bringing-the-outdoors-into-mainstream-education/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

Episode 32 is the last episode in Season 4! Marina is pulling together some of her thoughts about the last few weeks, and Season 5 will begin on 17th June.In this Episode Marina discusses: What's Ecocide and Why Does It Matter? (https://www.stopecocide.earth/become)How may our hidden School curriculum shape environmental connection? The educational value of stones, leaves, mud and sticks for the early years.The introduction of Ecocide Bill in the UK in November 2023.How do we educate children for a sustainable culture?The scope for using freely available natural resources to teach. Revising punishment, rewards, praise, and grief. Balancing our life at the expense of not harming others.Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-32-love-grief-and-the-call-for-ecocide-law/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.comPlease Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

In Episode 31, My guest Clare Caro and I get to explore if the ‘recipe of school’ is synonymous with education. Clare works as a co-director of the social enterprise Root-and-Branch Out, and with the local home-educating community. We dive into:What is home education and Unschooling (coined by John Holt)?·        Is it legal to home school, ‘educating otherwise’ in the United Kingdom?·        Is the ‘school recipe’ synonymous with education?How we adults also need to ‘de-school’ ourselves.·        What are our values and what about going to university? The use of manipulation techniques like punishment, rewards & growling!·        The hidden curriculum – how adults treat children.·        Growing Divergent thinkers & convergent thinkers with useful examples ·        The impact of language on your survival brainOur unconscious manipulation and support of ecocide·        If we want to teach eco-literacy, we need to stop teaching ecocide e.g extreme use of plastic in schools.·        An insight into Clare’s outdoors ‘Partnership model’.Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-31-exploring-education-and-unschooling/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

In Episode 30, Marina is exploring how we exile certain feelings to our unconscious, and how much we need them back, when we are ready, to be able to feel our grief and to avoid looking for relief in distractions, buying things, blaming others, so that we don’t abandon our own wild dreams and values. Humans are certainly very complex, and I am very interested in how our suppression of feelings is connected to the suppression of our wild ‘natural’ nature, which includes expression of emotions.  In this Episode Marina discusses:Emotions are very rational responses! Why is expressing them so important? What is neurobiology? How do minds connect our body and brain!Introducing the work of Neuroscientist Jaak Panskseep – the 7 circuits within our body.Meeting our outcasts and parts that we exile and how they operate within us!How our ‘inner wildness’ holds the key to much treasure if we can befriend the deep feelings we have locked away.The discovery of alarmed aloneness and some options I may have to welcome home some of our most hidden parts.In our animal human nature, our sensuous bodies, fully embodied, are expressive, and curious – all reflecting this wilder, freer energy.How do we reclaim our own needs and build the nurturing inner adult?Giving the opportunity to master skills and build our own capacity and believe we will still be loved.How is your ‘goodness’ measured – does this help you live fulfilling wholesome lives?Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/there-is-nothing-irrational-about-emotions/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

My guest today is neuroscience educator, Sarah Peyton, who is an author, an international constellations facilitator, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, and someone who has spent many years integrating constellations, brain science and the use of resonant language to heal trauma.In this episode we dive into:Flight and fight and a less known distress response ‘alarmed aloneness’ – or separation distress.We linked loneliness as a killer and the stressor of aloneness – the modern culture of ‘grow up’, ‘don’t cry’, ‘you can do it on our own’ messages.Re-affirming that our biology says we are not supposed to be alone, and healthy relationships are essential. As practitioners or parents showing our delight in our children, signals that they matter and are cared for!It is in fact a radical act to find warmth for us and others, not evaluating or measuring others, rather appreciating, and connecting with others.What does attachment mean for our health? The astounding statistics surrounding avoidant attachment and how stress increases our sense of aloneness and internal negative dialogue and self-worth. We need to be securely attached! Secure attachment is when we bring the people we love inside us – and are able to have warmth for ourselves.As we talked about the grief of loss of the health of the planet, Sarah, reminds us that healing our trauma, will provide joy, play, and love, which we need to have to stay present to what is happening, and to have the creative energy to take action together.The safer we feel the more parts are able contribute – activism arises from creative response – link to August response in the UK with Prime Minister that Sarah referred to: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2023/aug/03/greenpeace-activists-black-fabric-rishi-sunak-mansion-oil-protest-videoWe create safety by genuinely liking our students, we are inviting each nervous system and brain.Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-29-sarah-peyton-podcast/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

In Episode 28, Marina is feeling more reflective as she revisits some of the themes from her conversation with Peter Owen Jones last week.In this Episode Marina contemplates:A sense of sanctuary and intimacy with the non-human world, and ‘place’.The celebration of springtime and how the greening of our land informs our practice.The inner compass that pulls us home and helps us navigate the journey.Themes of love and punishment and how we exile parts that we find difficult to ‘own’ as part of ourselves.  How do we bring them home? My curiosity about the teachings of Jesus on love and forgiveness – and my interest in other figures in history that we can learn from.How we value others and be present with who they are (intrinsic value), not how they behave (extrinsic value).    Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-28-developing-our-inner-compass/ Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

My guest today is Peter Owen Jones, who is an ecological thinker and activist, as well as a celebrated BBC TV presenter.In this episode we dive into:Are your dancing days ever done?What gets sacrificed for order?Melancholia as a teacherPlug into love as our main human job.The call of the religions of love and similarities rather than differences – are our hearts different?Jesus as a radical teacher of love!Life is not meant to be easy, and we need to love in the face of painA rewording of the ‘Lord’s Prayer’The tough one is loving yourself.Readings from 'Conversations with Nature' p.g 69 & 73.Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-27-peter-owen-jones/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

In Episode 26, Marina looks at: The importance of knowing that our behaviour does not really reflect what is going on internally and that most of the time we are not aware of our how our unmet needs are fuelling the behaviour that we need support for, not punishment.Behaviour is an outward expressions of feelings, thoughts, needs and intentions (see Alfie Kohn’s work).How do we want our children to turn out?What’s the cost of a punitive and controlling approach?What does punishment really teach us?Healthy relationships are fundamental to well-being.Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/25-behaviour-is-communication/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

To kick off Season 4, Marina is speaking with Jon Cree, who is the co-author of their book, “The Essential Guide to Forest School and Nature Pedagogy”.  They dive into:What underpins a healthy model of education?How love really is an essential ingredient.A new model of partnership rather than dominationDiscovering wholehearted learningThe role of love and understanding our needsNeurobiology & our nervous systemsHow we do this in our practiceShow Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-25-why-love-matters-with-jon-cree/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

In Episode 24, Marina looks at: Our mind's potentialWhat is your Ecological Niche?Embracing the Nature-Centric Model.Choosing where to direct your attention.Fostering a quieter mind.Action as an antidote to anxiety.Humans as net contributors.What is the next moment of experience?Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-24-why-is-experiential-learning-needed-in-education/ Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

Season 3, Episode 23: In this week's podcast, I'm chatting to Roger Duncan, an eco-systemic psychotherapist within the NHS. For over 30 years, he worked within the nature therapy world, was one of the pioneer tutors of the Ruskin Mill Education Trust, is a wilderness passage guide and developed a UK based Eco-psychotherapy course called 'Reclaiming our Indigenous Relationship with Nature'.We dive into:What is an eco-systemic psychotherapist?How our world is made up of systems and how we think about systems.The impact of modernity and colonization.Tentacular thinking and re-imagining what it is to be human.The importance of the imaginal.Listening to what young people are saying.Valuing Indigenous knowledge.The Circle of Courage Model.The Embodied, heart-felt process.Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-23-roger-duncanMusic by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.comPlease Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

In Episode 22, Marina looks at: Our mind's potentialWhat is your Ecological Niche?Embracing the Nature-Centric Model.Choosing where to direct your attention.Fostering a quieter mind.Action as an antidote to anxiety.Humans as net contributors.What is the next moment of experience?Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-22-ecological-niches-unravelling-our-role/Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

Season 3, Episode 21: In this week's podcast, I'm chatting to Angharad Wynne, who is a writer and storyteller, a place-maker and heritage specialist with over 25 years of experience in the field.We dive into:Indigenous Spirituality from this land.The superpower of vulnerabilityWhat arises from the connection between people and place?Experiencing the world as inspirited.What it means to make sacred.What is sacred reciprocity?The need for mythos and logos.Honouring our known sense of connection.What does the Winter Solstice mean to us and our ancestors?A message of forgiveness, peace and caring for the other.What are we committing to with the returning light!3% of influence. Taking responsibility for the way we choose to be in the world and find kinship.Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/angharad-wynne-podcast/ Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.comPlease Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

In Episode 20, Marina looks at: How nature reminds us to listen and slow downThe wisdom of treesWhat this time of year provokes and invitesRemembering the importance of welcoming in the new and the strangeIn this episode Marina is harder to understand due to a lingering cold, but the show must go on!Show Notes:https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/earths-whispers-embracing-winters-wisdom/ Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

Season 3, Episode 19: For this Episode, my guest today is Rowan Salim, who is a geographer, facilitator, community gardener and storyteller who loves playing, making things, meeting people, and engaging in deep, slow learning.I enjoyed how this conversation embraced ancestry, how we both value the hospitality and generosity of other cultures.We begin to unpack the idea of progress in relation to the Story of Education, we touch on a consent-based, self-directed socio-cratic system of education.  If we can learn outside boxes where children can grow up knowing the local places and spaces, then it may be possible to develop values that align to what we can sustain, and create more livelihoods that are based on relationships. We dive into:How our lineages and different places continue to inform us. Celebrating hospitality and generosity from other lands.Considering international development and what ‘progress looks like’ within ‘The story of education.’An introduction to Socio-cratic education – where children are accepted, which is not authoritarian or coercive.Equating education with schooling - is this indisputable?How we value certain knowledge over others and reduce the diversity of ways of knowing.The growing network of alternative in the UK and abroad.The role of the adult as facilitators to be ‘guardians of flow’ and be ‘play allies.’If we learn and making in many wilder spaces, then we can grow local economies and valued this again and what some tangible steps might look like – time, relationship and listening!Show Notes:https://www.theoutdoorteacher.com/p/the-wild-minds-podcast-19-rowan-salimMusic by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.comPlease Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

In Episode 18, Marina looks at: The empowerment of educators and those who work with young people.What we have lost since the 1920’s, in terms of children’s roaming radius!The cultural lens of risk and play.How our own risk appetite affects us and what we do.Is using our hands for crafts, whittling and fire-making really that risky?Risk is such an important subject that I will definitely keep coming back to, It links to healthy development, the opportunity for change and growth and help us to build self-worth and confidence! Do get in touch if you want to add to this conversation and support positive change in our society.Show Notes:https://www.theoutdoorteacher.com/p/the-wild-minds-podcast-18-are-you-risk-averse Watch my Webinar: Why Risky Activities Are So Valuable For Childrenhttps://www.theoutdoorteacher.com/p/why-risky-activities-are-so-valuable-for-childrenMusic by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

Season 3, Episode 17: Welcome back to Season 3 – thank you to all my listeners from around the world! I have some great conversations lined up for you for this season.  My guest today is Tom Williams, the founder and co-director of Woodland Tribe and also the Business and Service Development Manager at Eastside Community Trust in Bristol.  Tom has been a tireless advocate for adventure play throughout his life. We are going to dive into the long history of Adventure playgrounds and how our attitudes to risk have changed over the last 40 years.  This is a passionate conversation that helped me to imagine a society we could create. It made me think about how freedom and responsibility are both necessary, and lead to huge personal and collective benefits, as well as the real struggles of running a charity and getting insurance for more risky experiences.We dive into:The concept of freedom in childhood and how it’s hijacked!The philosophy of adventure playgroundsHow children are incredibly good at doing their own risk assessmentsHow overprotection is damagingThe impact of the cost of insuranceAnd so many more interesting ideas to contemplate!Show Notes:https://www.theoutdoorteacher.com/p/the-wild-minds-podcast-17-tom-williams Watch my Webinar: Why Risky Activities Are So Valuable For Childrenhttps://www.theoutdoorteacher.com/p/why-risky-activities-are-so-valuable-for-children Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.comPlease Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

Season 2, Episode 16: In this episode, Marina shares her new understanding about our planet’s water cycle and how we can begin to consider ways of cleaning our own water from our taps. As the last episode of Season 2, I have added to the show notes a do-it yourself water filter kit and some links to the life-enhancing properties of bio-char!This episode includes:Do it yourself Carbon-filter to remove a range of contaminants in the water coming out of your tap!The importance of soil and water in Climate Change.How the global water cycle regulates the climate and drives 70 -95% of the heat dynamics. The planet is a biotic pump!How rivers have the same architecture as blood in our bodiesWhat we can do in our houses to have clean waterBiochar (activated charcoal) technology could be used to filter water on a small and large scale.How wet woodlands capture the water and prevent flooding downstream! Show Notes:https://www.theoutdoorteacher.com/p/the-wild-minds-podcast-16-what-does-healthy-soil-and-water-have-to-do-with-regenerating-life Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com Please Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out.  Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024

Season 2, Episode 15: My guest today is Deborah Barker, who brings 25 years’ experience of working in the rural economy, and creative arts in the public, private and voluntary sectors.In this conversation, we discuss holistic ways of thinking about our ecosystem, the importance of soil, farming, and sheep and how the carbon cycles are intricately linked to the water and nutrient cycles. We dive into:The link between our extractive mind sets and climate change.The importance of soil, farming, and sheep! How we can begin to rethink our relationship to clothes.Agro-ecologyExamples of healthy functioning natural cyclesDeveloping an understanding of reciprocity How we need to respect planetary boundaries and how local networking can contribute to carbon solutions.Show Notes:https://www.theoutdoorteacher.com/p/the-wild-minds-podcast-15-deborah-barker Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.comPlease Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple PodcastsIf you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This really helps me to spread the word to more people like you, and to empower more people to take their practice outdoors!Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then let me know what you loved most about the episode!Also, if you haven’t done so already, "follow" the podcast, as if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out. Mentioned in this episode:Geoff Tour Summer 2024