The Wild Minds Podcast

In Episode 22, Marina looks at: Our mind's potential What 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 G...

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 vulnerability What arises from the connection between people and place? Experiencing the world as inspirited. What it means to make...

In Episode 20, Marina looks at: How nature reminds us to listen and slow down The wisdom of trees What this time of year provokes and invites Remembering the importance of welcoming in the new and the strange In 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/ M...

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...

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...

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...

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 r...

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...

Season 2, Episode 14: In this episode, Marina looks at: 1. The difference between nature connection and deep nature connection 2. The 5 pathways to Nature Connection described by Derby University (link below) 3. How different cultures and have a very different relationship with nature 4. Why attachment to place plays an important part in our development and well-being. Show Notes: https://theoutdo...

Season 2, Episode 13: My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Professor Jan White, a leading thinker and writer on outdoor play and an advocate for high quality outdoor provision for services for children from birth to seven. Jan is also an award-winning author and in addition to numerous other achievements, is the strategic director of  Early Childhood Outdoors. In this episode we t...

Season 2, Episode 12: Marina Robb talks about the importance of consent and power, and how so often we don’t realise how this operates in our lives. She also discusses some core ideas within the field of Rewilding Education and Wild pedagogy. In this episode, Marina looks at: • How power shows up in our relationships & schools • How consent and choice lead to agency and self-esteem • The...

Season 2, Episode 11: My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Dr Max Hope. Max is Director of Rewilding Education, a collaboration which strives to find ways to make education wilder, freer, more grounded, and more consensual. They are co-facilitator of Call of the Wild, a Devon-based year-long programme which supports participants to develop personal and professional skills as well as ignitin...

Season 2: Episode 10: Marina talks about the link between the Climate Crisis and Mental health. Balancing what can seem quite hopeless, with some information about how our health systems in the UK are responding, as well as looking at how our medical models are beginning to include social and green prescriptions as an additional or alternative route to wellness.  Topics include • How the Clim...

Season 2, Episode 9: My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Dr Alan Kellas MBBS BA MRCPsych Alan trained in medicine and qualified in 1981, worked in General Practice in the NHS, lectured at Bristol University Department of Psychiatry, and was a community NHS Consultant Psychiatrist from 1998 – 2013. He has been a member of the sustainability committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, n...

Season 1: Episode 8 In this last episode of Season 1, Marina looks at: Risk and vulnerability Our need for rest and play Not giving up on asking 'Why!' The book referenced in the podcast is 'Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto' by Tricia Hersey (2022 Aster Publishers) Shownotes: https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/risk-rest-and-wild-play/ The Wild Minds Podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb,...

Season 1: Episode 7 My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Lily Horseman. Lily has been following the threads of play, nature, community, and connection through many different roles over the last 25 years. She came to work with children through Playwork and with marginalised families in the late 90’s. In this episode, we discuss: Wildness, wild play and uncharted territory Risk and our comfor...

Season 1: Episode 6 In Episode 6, Marina looks at: How stress feels in the body. The importance of giving words to our sensations and emotions. The idea of place attachment A few ideas to improve our ability to emotionally regulate. Shownotes: https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/stress-and-mental-health/ The Wild Minds Podcast is brought to you by me, Marina Robb , an author, entrepreneur, Fore...

Season 1: Episode 5 My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Alison Roy. Alison Roy is an experienced Psychotherapist, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, author, specialist consultant and trainer. Her experience has taught her to understand how important our communications are and how they can enhance or inhibit our relationships in every aspect of our lives. ​She is invested in...

Season 1: Episode 4 In Episode 4, Marina looks at: Noticing the rules that are in place and asking if we had a part in designing them at all? What teachers are taught in their training. How a teaching mind-set shift may be helpful. A classic outdoor myth. Exploring the key benefits of this approach to learning. Confused about what qualifications you need to take groups outdoors? Download my free g...

Season 1: Episode 3 Juliet Robertson is a leading outdoor learning consultant, author of 2 popular books, who is living with a terminal illness. Before becoming a consultant, Juliet was a head teacher at three schools. Her other experience draws on a degree in environmental science, as an archaeologist, conservation, outdoor education and years in mainstream teaching, including as a head teacher....

Season 1: Episode 2 Download my free guide to the Nature Centric Models discussed in this episode: https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/nature-centric-models/ In this episode Marina discusses: ●     A growing recognition that life on the planet is in trouble. ●     Unpacking a nature-centric model which de-centralises the human. ●  &nbs...

Season 1: Episode 1 Betsy Perluss is a leading wilderness rites of passage guide and trainer, a depth psychotherapist, practising deep ecotherapy and helping people to apply the natural world for therapeutic purposes. In this episode, Betsy: ● Helps us to reimagine ourselves as intricately interwoven with the world beyond our skin. ● Explains the four shields of human nature: The body, psyche, min...