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 63 - The Power of Making Baskets by Hand in an Automated World- with Sandra Kehoe
This episode explores the work of the Natural Artists, the Crafters and the Makers, and all of those who make useful and beautiful things from nature. Sandra Kehoe weaves experiences with her stude…
00:56:06 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Episode 62 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Five Nature Program Marketing Mistakes (and how to fix them!)
It's understandable that most nature program directors or entrepreneurs are better trackers, or basketmakers, or wild foods gatherers than they are at marketing and promoting their programs. Those …
00:48:56 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
Episode 61 - Leadership, Brotherhood & Inclusion in the Outdoors: Mentoring BIPOC Young Men with Manny Almonte
The loneliness and struggle that young men experience, especially young men of color, is one that happens silently, almost invisibly every day. The opportunity to connect with older men and new frie…
01:05:59 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
Episode 60 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Building Community around Forest Education
Probably the most unexpected thing that people realize while attending a nature program is how GOOD it feels to share the experience in the company of interesting, positive, and motivated participant…
01:04:38 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
Episode 59 - The Challenges and Joys of Forest Schooling in Southeast Asia with Sharon Cortez
The magic and power of 'forest school' programming and pedagogy has spread far and wide, from the Scandinavian origins to Europe, Turkey, North America, Australia, South Korea and now into Southeast …
00:48:22 |
Thu 28 Dec 2023
Episode 58 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Entering the Wild
During the early years of my wilderness skills training and practice, I began to notice something interesting when I would venture out into the forest. I spent a lot of time in nature to gather mat…
00:53:34 |
Mon 25 Dec 2023
Episode 57 - The Equitable Power of Forest Education in the Public Sector with David Alexander
David Alexander is a naturalist, bushcrafter, Adirondack Guide, wild foods forager and avid hunter and fisherman who also serves the youth of New Jersey in environmental education. He's developed in…
00:41:45 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Episode 56 - The Forest Educator Spotlight: Cold Training
Fear of being uncomfortable lurks behind almost every outdoor experience when we are first learning to deal with nature's 'moods'. The purifying intensity of cold scours the world when it moves acros…
01:02:42 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
Episode 55 - Going Off-Grid & Into the Canadian Wild with Kielyn Marrone of Lure of the North
There's an almost mystical longing for the wild expanse that stretches north into the Arctic, with small birch trees, firs and spruces, mazes of unnamed rivers and lakes, and a landscape almost devoi…
00:47:04 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Episode 54 - The Forest Educator Spotlight: Seven Things I Wish I'd Known Before Starting Hawk Circle
I started my Hawk Circle Wilderness Camp in the summer of 1989, but it had been a dream of mine for about four years earlier.
It was glorious, and it was amazing.
It was also a process of tria…
00:51:52 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Episode 53 - Connecting to Nature Through Plants, Medicine & Herbal First Aid with Sam Coffman
One of the things I love most about this podcast is getting to have conversations with amazing people who love to dive deeply into their chosen field of study. Some of these individuals do work that…
01:03:04 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Episode 52 - Forest Educator Spotlight: The Problem with Intangible Results
If you've ever tried to talk about the meaning and value of an experience in nature with someone who's never experienced something similar, it can feel like talking to a brick wall.
Our insights, …
01:04:37 |
Mon 04 Dec 2023
Episode 51 - The Long and Winding Road from China to Ireland with Katie Fu
Some of the best educators are shaped through a lifetime of not quite 'fitting in'. They see the world differently than most, and push back against the status quo, sometimes in creative ways. It ca…
00:58:34 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Episode 50 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Exploring the Role of Spirituality in Forest Education
This episode dives into the more 'intuitive' and 'feeling' areas of nature education, and how we can support our students/clients/children to have experiences that go beyond an intellectually based u…
00:58:04 |
Mon 27 Nov 2023
Episode 49 - Himalayan Treks, Transformation and Ethical Business Philosophy with Lakshmi Selvakumaran of IndiaHikes.
Helping the Indian people have access to hundreds of hikes, treks and nature exploration is an ambitious, constantly evolving vision that has seen amazing success for the IndiaHikes organization. In…
00:46:10 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Episode 48 - The Forest Educator Spotlight: How To Understand The Value of Our Programs
We're talking about the business of forest education again today in this week's Forest Educator Spotlight. How do we determine the value and appropriately price our programs? This may not be as fun a…
01:02:52 |
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Episode 47 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Forest Education with Todd Davis
My guest today is Todd Davis, a professor at the Delta State University down in the Mississippi Delta region. As an educator in an area with a very split population when it comes to racial and econom…
01:02:27 |
Thu 16 Nov 2023
Episode 46 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Big Questions Facing Forest Education
The future of nature based learning looks bright, due to a growing awareness of the benefits of time spent outside.
It's an exciting time to be an educator right now, and there is a lot of reason …
00:29:09 |
Mon 13 Nov 2023
Episode 45 - The Amazonian Rainforest Adventures of Joe Flowers: Creating life changing experiences in the Jungles of South America
There are a lot of different and unique ways to enter the field of nature education, and you'd think that designing knives wouldn't be one of them. But that's exactly the way Joe discovered a passio…
00:52:32 |
Thu 09 Nov 2023
Episode 44 - Forest Educator Spotlight: Coming of Age in the Wilderness
The transition from childhood to young adulthood is full of intense change and growth in a relatively short period of time. It can be rough for parents as well, and for eons, earth based cultures ha…
00:52:44 |
Mon 06 Nov 2023
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