Forest Educator with Ricardo Sierra | A Podcast for Revolutionary Conversations about Nature-Based Education
Welcome to the Forest Educator Podcast hosted by Ricardo Sierra. Join Ricardo as he engages in enlightening conversations with educators from across the globe who are revolutionizing nature-based education. Drawing on his 35 years of experience in wilderness education, Ricardo shares practical insights, tools, and best practices to inspire and support forest educators and camp staff worldwide. Tune in twice a week for interviews with passionate educators and skill spotlights that delve into the challenges and triumphs of the field.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 164
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Episode 83 - Forest Education & Innovation in a Man-Made World with Jael Nouhet
How do you create nature programs in a country where virtually everything is cultivated through commercial agriculture and highly impacted landscapes? My conversation with Jael Nouhet of the Netherl…
01:02:56 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Episode 82 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Finding Your Lane as a Forest Educator
The paths we take in our journey as educators are incredibly diverse and unique to each of us. We all have different origins, with mentors, teachers, opportunities and our communities all influencin…
00:38:05 |
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Episode 81 - Forest Learning in the Los Angeles Basin- with Madlen Sarkisyan
Deep in the concrete jungle of spanish style homes, freeways, urban sprawl and mini-malls, there are naturalists who know the canyons, coastal foothills and estuaries hidden throughout the city.
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01:03:05 |
Thu 14 Mar 2024
Episode 80 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Moving the Needle-Equity, Education & Changing the System
This episode is an exploration of some of the critical issues we encounter as nature based educators when we enter the public education system. The road to Forest Education for all seems to point to…
01:08:28 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Episode 79 - The Unbeatable Combination of Occupational Therapy and Forest Education with Marika Austin and Angela Rosenberg
You all know I like a good analogy, so I'm going to say that the duo of Marika and Angela reminds me of the heroes of my comic book days, when I was a collector. I'd mow lawns for my neighbors, and …
01:11:31 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
Episode 78 - Forest Educator Spotlight - The Beneficial Partnership of Nature and Language Arts with Jonny Walker
This episode is a conversation with Jonny Walker, a poetry, creative writing and language arts educator from London/Uk. We explore how 'traditional' or classical education benefits when we incorpora…
01:06:04 |
Mon 04 Mar 2024
Episode 77 - Living Your Values, Building Community with Dariya Quenniville and Jefferie Conz
It's one thing to learn wilderness skills, and it's another thing entirely to integrate them into our lives in meaningful ways.
This is the path that Dariya and Jefferie are walking, with the added…
01:04:08 |
Thu 29 Feb 2024
Episode 76 - Forest Educator Spotlight: The Necessity of Adversity
This episode could be titled 'The Problem with Getting Comfortable with the Status Quo', because there's a very real disadvantage that happens when we slip into a routine. Organizations do thrive …
01:10:21 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Episode 75 - Multicultural Adventures in the Canadian Rainforest with Maria Jose Obando
One thing you learn to love in Vancouver, British Columbia is the sound, the feeling and the smell of rain. You also get to enjoy the bald eagles hunting by the river, and the herons, and the towe…
00:54:31 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Episode 74 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Doing Hard Things with Ricardo Sierra
An aspect of nature education that I believe is greatly overlooked is the ability and benefit it gives young people to 'Do Hard Things'. This happens when we learn to climb a steep hill, climb a tre…
00:57:13 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Episode 73 - Collisions of Earth & Sky: Seeking Truth through Poetry & Nature with Heidi Barr
The path of a writer and poet is a solo journey. We navigate winding, circling loops of our own stories, sitting in the caves of our memories , reliving the places that changed our understanding, so…
00:58:55 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
Episode 72 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Navigating the For-Profit/Non-Profit Decision
There comes a point in most nature education programs' evolution when we have to decide on what 'legal entity' or structure we are going to use to do business in our community. Will we be a Sole …
00:52:46 |
Mon 12 Feb 2024
Episode 71 - Dynamic, Community Based Bush Kindy in Australia: A MobileForest Schooling Model with Areta Farrance
One of the most remarkable qualities I have seen in most 'Forest Educator' leaders I've met through this podcast is their ability and willingness to adapt, change and respond to the needs of the chil…
00:54:26 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
Episode 70 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Nature Job Strategies for Employers & Educators
If you are a Nature Program Director looking for helpers or a Nature Educator looking for work, this episode can help you find the right situation or people for a positive, mutually beneficial experi…
00:58:31 |
Mon 05 Feb 2024
Episode 69 - Creating a Forest School as a Village woven with Healing and Support with Danielle Zola LMSW, M.S.Ed
My guest in this episode found her way to 'nature based education' under duress, like so many program leaders. Danielle Zola shares her visionary journey that was propelled by the needs of the chi…
01:03:29 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
Episode 68 - Forest Educator Spotlight - Lessons From The North Wind
The winter is a time of contrasts, where survival is hardest for most living things, and at the same time, sometimes also including times when we can feel closest to those in our families and our liv…
01:00:49 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Episode 67 - Public Schools & Nature Program Leverage Points- with April Zajko, M.Ed
For most nature educators, getting into a public school can be daunting and even a little intimidating. The desire to offer forest education to ALL children is balanced against the number of hoops w…
01:18:19 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
Episode 66 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Ethical Dilemmas in Forest Education
Ethical dilemmas happen when we are faced with situations where all of the options have conflicts with our morals or personal philosophy or beliefs. In Forest Education, this happens around a numb…
00:53:17 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Episode 65 - Choosing Wholistic Nature over Corporate Culture - with Rimi Chakraborty
When Rimi and her husband chose to 'Take the Leap', it didn't seem TOO difficult. Leaving a good corporate job with a decent nest egg and opening an island retreat center in the Azores seemed relati…
01:13:47 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Episode 64 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Swamp Stories
If there is one area in nature that many people 'fear to tread', it's wetlands, bogs and swamps. These areas are difficult to traverse, especially if you are afraid to get dirty. There are mosquitoe…
00:50:45 |
Mon 15 Jan 2024
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