Community, Collaboration and Connection with Danny English

Things we talk about in this episode

• The value of experiencing community and nature connection as a young adult
• USA- Interlocken- centre for experiential education
• Finding connection and healing. From lost teen to purposeful adult.
• Louise Chawla - Research on Significant life experiences
• Positive, meaningful and memorable experiences being a catalyst for change
• The importance of enthusiastic and significant adult mentors
• Collaboration as a driver for connection and community
• Having support/accountability but also autonomy
• The joy of writing childrens stories

Links mentioned in this episode

https://www.webekids.net/

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The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson https://soundcloud.com/visionray

Biography

Danny lives happily in the North of England with his partner and daughter. He spent a lot of his early adulthood living and working at a centre of Experiential Education in the USA where he discovered the power of community living, nature connection and experiential Education. Danny studied Outdoor and Environmental Education at Liverpool University and founded the Outdoor Education Project CommuniTree, directing it up until spring 2020. When Covid hit Danny and his partner Annie started a nature-based wellbeing project called We Be Kids and are currently working on this to bring free nature-based online resources to children and families to help them build connections and boost wellbeing. Danny is also a children's author, storyteller, poet, spoon carver, birdwatcher, ultra-marathon runner and homeschool Dad. 

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