Season 3 Episode 6 Fit to Play with Jon Cree
In this episode, I speak with a firm favourite in the Grow Free Community. One of our practitioner members, Jon Cree was one of the key pioneers of Forest School in the UK, a director of The Forest School Association UK and co-author of The Essential Guide to Forest School & Nature Pedagogy. He is also an emerging expert in nature-based approaches for working through trauma. Jon is delivering three workshops with us in Aberdeenshire in May this year.Together in Nature - nervous system attunement in nature for practitioners and peer supportersInvolving All, Evolving Play - consent-based , play-led learning for practitioners, educators and parentsThe Power of Connection - a weekend immersion exploring somatics and storytelling. This conversation teases out some of the language we have used to describe the workshops, finding the phrase 'Fit to Play' as a common thread connecting them all. We cover themes such as:- how the multi-sensory world of nature helps us to hold BIG feelings and share life experiences - the neurobiology of healing - relational attunement and how it helps to re-focus attention and re-discover delight in the energy of life - how to walk alongside each other and the more than human to feel our natural state as one of profound interconnectedness, feeling it counteract anxietyA beautiful conversation with a beautiful bloke, igniting our excitement for him coming in May. For more information you can email emmab@grow-free.com