Forest school
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Sep 19, 2026
Bracken Van RyssenHOST
Hello and welcome to another video or episode depending on whether you're watching this on YouTube or listening on your favorite podcast player So Today I thought we'd revisit Pricey a little bit.
Bracken Van RyssenHOST
It's been a little while and there's been a lot of discussion on some of the Forest School Leader Facebook groups about it.
Bracken Van RyssenHOST
And I thought I'd kind of bring together some thoughts that I've had that have developed on ideas that I've already looked at.
Bracken Van RyssenHOST
So first of all, I'm quite fond of talking about pricing because how much we earn is in direct relation to how sustainable this business is long term.
Bracken Van RyssenHOST
So if I want to keep on doing forest school and bushcraft and all of that for the long term, then it needs to earn enough that I can keep a roof over my head.
Bracken Van RyssenHOST
Because if I'm living on the street, I'm not producing these videos and I'm not running sessions.
Bracken Van RyssenHOST
And there's some way in there is if I don't earn enough with forest school, I may well have to go get an office job, which I would gather none of my audience wants or the ones that already have an office job are actively trying to get out of.
Bracken Van RyssenHOST
So how much you charge for your sessions is a vitally important component to surviving as a business and to being a forest school leader long term or a woodland leader or bushcrafter.
Lewis AmesHOST
Welcome to the Forest School Podcast, a show where I, Lewis, and my co-host, Wem Southerner, set out to explore a shared pedagogy.
Lewis AmesHOST
It's a space where cerebral thinking matters more than craftivities, where educational purpose outweighs pretty resources, and where inclusion is more than just a buzzword.
Lewis AmesHOST
Join us as we overthink the trivial, deep dive into whatever sparks our dopamine, and reflect on what it means to truly hold space for others, holistically and without judgment.
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Lewis AmesHOST
The definition that was being explained, which is that like, that is an alienating practice or that is an unnecessarily alienating practice as opposed to that is a practice that is not typical for me.
Wem SoutherdenHOST
Yes, 100%.
Wem SoutherdenHOST
And there might be times if we're talking, so she's kind of looking at it from an activism point of view, isn't she? Like we're here for a meeting to affect change, to really focus on a cause, which is kind of adjacent to forest school in a lot of ways, but it isn't the same.
Wem SoutherdenHOST
So there might be a lot of stuff happening.
Wem SoutherdenHOST
that we do in forest school, which we totally embrace as inessential weirdness because we're not there for that purpose.
Rhianne StephensGUEST
I'm there with our three to four year olds.
Rhianne StephensGUEST
And I'm out two days a week where I do forest school and I take the lead on beach school.
Andy BurtHOST
Very good.
Andy BurtHOST
Super.
Andy BurtHOST
So thank you so much for coming on.
Andy BurtHOST
And so in terms of beach schools, then...
Andy BurtHOST
Obviously, you've been involved in forest schools before, but when did beach schools come about? Was there a starting point for it?
Rhianne StephensGUEST
There was.
Lewis AmesHOST
Welcome to the Forest School Podcast, a show where I, Lewis, and my co-host, Wem Southerner, set out to explore a shared pedagogy.
Lewis AmesHOST
It's a space where cerebral thinking matters more than craftivities, where educational purpose outweighs pretty resources, and where inclusion is more than just a buzzword.
Lewis AmesHOST
Join us as we overthink the trivial, deep dive into whatever sparks our dopamine, and reflect on what it means to truly hold space for others, holistically and without judgment.
Wem SoutherdenHOST
And yeah, we both had people message us saying how much they enjoyed that one, how kind of thought provoking it was.
Wem SoutherdenHOST
So if you haven't listened to that one, recommend giving it a little play and see what you think.
Lewis AmesHOST
There's been lots of comments about because we kind of... finished it it will make sense if you go and listen to it pause now go listen to it and then come back here ready three two great okay so uh comments about the kind of relationalness of things and whether we can uh use the play work definitions of play being freely uh freely chosen and we were then exploring well but the stick is you know enacting on the child by simply its presence and and um it's been really interesting a couple of the comments have been about phrases like togetherness and phrases like you know that interplay of things and that unpicking that kind of like human first view of things and that you know a lot of when we talk about because this is where a lot of things start talking about pedagogy and then obviously most pedagogies are human focused and so that's where a lot of forest school stuff starts is like what do the humans do in this space and you know unpicking that to another level has been really interesting with some of the people that have commented and stuff and thinking about uh you know is there a step beyond you know that is it the community bit of it needs to be our pedagogy not just how it acts on the stuff, but how the stuff acts on the stuff.
Wem SoutherdenHOST
It's mind-boggling.
Wem SoutherdenHOST
It's mind-boggling and brilliant.
GraceHOST
Thank you very much.
GraceHOST
And tell us a little bit about what brought you into being a forest school teacher.
GraceHOST
And yeah, because you weren't always, you know, you made that decision and adapted to lifestyle.
NaomiGUEST
Okay, maybe I can go first and then I'll pass over to Marta.
MartaGUEST
So
NaomiGUEST
we started investigating together about how we as professionals could develop our skills first.
NaomiGUEST
And we trained as forest school leaders in the UK.
NaomiGUEST
And also in Spain, we did a course previously in Madrid.
Jane McMorrowGUEST
Kerry Walker, maybe we can persuade Kerry to add a few more children in, but maybe not because they're quite little.
Jane McMorrowGUEST
And that's going to be, that's with the Nature Hub and Forest School.
Jane McMorrowGUEST
And Kerry's going to be running a workshop, which is painting from... with nature not from with nature and so she's going to be making natural dyes with the children blackberries for instance getting them to kind of you know what blackberries are like you know that wonderful color that comes from
Joe McGillHOST
very tactile then as well very