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Today, we are delighted to have Dr Arne Rubenstein back to answer your questions about the role of father figures and how to maintain meaningful connections during a boy's journey toward adulthood.

Dr Arne is the CEO and Founder of the Rites of Passage Institute. He has over 30 years of experience as a medical doctor, counselor, speaker, workshop facilitator, and the proud father of two wonderful young men and a mentor to many others.

For full show notes head to: https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/From-Boys-To-Men-With-Dr-Arne

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Dr Kate Grarock is an Ecologist, Hiker, YouTube Creator, passionate storyteller, Mum and most recently, a participant on the incredibly popular SBS TV show, Alone Australia. 

Today, we’ll be talking all about her time on the survival show, the best and hardest parts, and her current ecology work and her tips and tricks for solo hiking – including her favourite hiking treat!

For Full Show Notes Head To https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/Alone-With-Dr-Kate-Grarock

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1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
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4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

At forest school, we often talk about how nature play is so important for our sensory development, but did you know that many of the developmental and behavioural challenges we see in children stem from our nervous system? In today's episode we scratch the surface of sensory integration, sensory processing and retained reflexes with Occupational Therapists, Rachel Harrington and Jessica Hill. 

👉  Rachel and Jess share

• About primitive reflexes
• About retaining reflexes 
• What we can do at home to help this
• Why we need sensory integration and the integration of primitive reflexes
• The kinds of things would you notice in your child if they had retained primitive reflexes
• The retained reflexes that are seen commonly in a classroom
• About sensory processing disorders
• Exercises, Strategies, and Tips to Help with SPD
• Some of the myths around sensory processing
• About diagnosis and how to identify them
• How nature helps in integrating the senses
• About sensory diets
• That parents may notice their own bodies, behaviours or patterns and find out that they too have a sensory processing disorder
• About working with families that have children with opposing sensory processing disorders

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Rachel Harrington, COTA/L, AC, CPRCS and Jessica Hill, COTA/L, CPRCS are passionate Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants and Certified Primitive Reflex Clinic Specialists who host of the popular podcast, All Things Sensory by Harkla. Their podcast, digital courses, YouTube, and blog on Harkla.co covers topics related to sensory processing disorder, special needs, parenting, and topics related to child development and health.
With over 9 years of clinical experience, Rachel and Jessica are on a mission to help parents, educators, and therapists raise strong and confident children, no matter their abilities. They get excited about taking clinical topics (such as Sensory Processing Disorder, primitive reflexes, and sensory diets) and helping us to reframe the way that we see children, how we can help them get their needs met and spreading the word about the importance of sensory integration. 

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1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
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Today we’re chatting to Sarah Aiono, international speaker, coach, teacher, researcher, CEO of Longworth Education and one of Aotearoa New Zealand's leading play pedagogy experts all about the biological need for all humans to play, the need for us as parents and educators to slow down childhood, how the early academic pushdown is harming children and how Sarah and her passionate team help teachers implement evidence-based play pedagogy in their everyday classroom practices. 

👉  Sarah shares

• Her journey to starting Longworth Education
• About play advocacy
• If teenagers do still biologically need play
• About the Play Pedagogy Philosophy
• That childhood needs to slow down
• That childhood is not preparation for adulthood 
• Why we must challenge the rhetoric about meeting certain milestones
• About the biological imperative that play is for children
• Why play outside is so critical for children's development 
• How we can advocate for our children's strengths and passions, ensuring educators and schools recognise the diversity of children's knowledge and skills.

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Sarah is an international speaker, coach, teacher, researcher, CEO and one of Aotearoa New Zealand's leading play pedagogy experts. She has extensive experience as a classroom teacher, having taught students from all year levels, with a particular focus on those with challenging behaviour and learning needs. She is passionate about helping teachers implement evidence-based play pedagogy with fidelity in their everyday classroom practices. She is a postgraduate course advisor, Neuro fellow and HundrED Academy member and hosts the popular podcast series Play Conversations. She is also 8 years into her journey as a part of a worldschooling family, alongside her husband and two teenage children.

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If you’re anything like us, the title of today’s episode, “Low Demand Parenting”, made you take a hopeful gasp and wonder if low-demand parenting could actually work for your family and take some of the weight and pressure of parenting off of your chest.

Well, after chatting with Amanda Diekman, author and leading voice in the neurodiversity parenting movement, I can honestly say I felt some of that weight lift as she gave me and all our listeners permission to say, ‘It’s too hard right now” and let some things go.

Amanda's wisdom and insight into the realities of parenting uniquely wired children hit a chord for me and I hope you too find the permission you may be seeking today to radically accept your child and family where you and they are at.

For Full Show Notes Head To
https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/low-demand-parenting

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1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
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What do you feel when you walk into a perfectly instagrammable Early Years setting, or when you see an education space wrapped in artificial turf?

Today we’re chatting with husband and wife duo, architects and owners of Landings Studio, Emma Healy and David Pratt all about biophilic design, the benefits of it, what we can do instead of laying astro turf and immovable playgrounds, and how we can implement some of these ideas in our homes and early years settings.


For Full Show Notes Head To
https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/How-Biophilic-Design-Connects-Us-All

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If you’ve ever been to one of our Brisbane Forest School sessions, you may have been lucky enough to meet today’s guest, Amanda England. 

Amanda is our Brisbane manager, friend, and business partner. 

On today’s podcast, Amanda is sharing her journey from preschool teacher to kickstarting our Wildlings Forest Kindy Program in Brisbane, Australia.

Amanda will also share how investing her time and energy into building stakeholder relationships helped her successfully advocate for children and play in South East Queensland.

For Full Show Notes Head To
https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/it-takes-a-village-to-run-a-forest-school

When You're Ready, Here's How We Can Help You:

1. Want to learn the "on the ground" skills you NEED to run children's activities with fire, water and hand tools?  Bush Kindy Skills is for play workers, educators and aspiring forest school leaders. Apply now to get an invitation to our FREE training.
2. Are you ready to create your own Wildly Successful Nature Play Business? Head to www.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness to access the roadmap to start your own Wild Business. 
3. Want to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.

Other ways we can help you:

1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
2. Ready to create your own Nature Play business? Head to www.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness to access the roadmap to starting your business journey.
3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

One of the biggest reasons for starting our own business was to be able to jump at opportunities when adventure called. It’s a great privilege to be able to do this and it’s not something we take for granted.

This week on the podcast we are diving into Nicki’s recent unplanned 5-week road trip into the outback with her two homeschooled boys and dog in tow.

The road schooling trip back to Nicki’s own childhood roots in South Australia.

Were they new places to visit? No.

Was it going to have the same awe and wonder that it had 30 years ago? 

Surprisingly, yes!

For Full Show Notes Head To https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/the-journey-home-with-nicki-farrell  

When You're Ready, Here's How We Can Help You:

1. Want to learn the "on the ground" skills you NEED to run children's activities with fire, water and hand tools?  Forest School Skills is for play workers, educators and aspiring forest school leaders. Apply now to get an invitation to our FREE training.
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3. Want to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.

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1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
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3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
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Imagine being labeled America’s worst mother just because you made the conscious decision to allow your child to experience some independence. If you haven’t heard Lenore Skenazy’s story or read her book Free Range Kids, today’s episode is a great introduction to the Free Range Children and Grow Wild movements. 

👉  Lenore shares

• The incredible story that catapulted her into this movement.
• Some of the most rewarding outcomes she has seen in her own life and in the families she has worked with
• What free-range parenting really is
• The biggest myths about it
• How people can start incorporating its principles into their own parenting style
• Her response to the critics of free-range parenting arguing that it is irresponsible or even dangerous
• The biggest challenges that parents face when trying to give their kids more independence
• How parents can overcome those obstacles
• How you can incorporate safety into free-range parenting
• About the "Let Grow" initiative
• What she hopes to see from parents and families adopting this style in the years to come

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here:
https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/free-range-kids 

When You're Ready, Here's How We Can Help You:

1. Want to learn the "on the ground" skills you NEED to run children's activities with fire, water and hand tools?  Wild School Skills is for play workers, educators and aspiring forest school leaders. Apply now to get an invitation to our FREE training in May  
2. Are you ready to create your own Wildly Successful Nature Play Business? Head to www.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness to access the roadmap to start your own Wild Business. 
3. Want to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.

Other ways we can help you:

1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
2. Ready to create your own Nature Play business? Head to www.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness to access the roadmap to starting your business journey.
3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

Issac Newton once said “What goes up must come down”, but what on Earth are we supposed to do when children climb up too high and call out for help?

Recently, we’ve witnessed several occurrences where tiny climbers reach great heights only to get stuck when it comes to getting back down to the ground.

In today’s podcast episode, we are deep diving into the physiology behind this and what adults can do to coach children down from great heights.

In this episode, we discuss:

✔️ Fear Of Heights vs. Height Vertigo

✔️The physiology behind “Height Vertigo” and its impact on the senses

✔️Our 4 top tips to respectfully coach children down from heights

Full show notes for this episode can be found at:

https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/dizzy-heights-and-how-to-get-down

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Playworkers, educators and aspiring forest school leaders. Apply now to get an invitation to our FREE training "The First Steps You Must Take Before Leading A Nature Immersion Program" and steal our signature Gather, Guide & Grow framework for starting your own Nature Immersion or Forest School Program https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/register

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1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
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3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

Tree climbing has always been a rite of passage. Whether it was the mango tree in the backyard or the massive jacaranda at the local park. 

Where there were trees…. there were children hanging from the branches.

At least, that’s what is why like in our own childhood.

But did you know that 1 in 4 Australian children have never climbed a tree?

That’s a quarter of Australian children!

Missing out on the pure joy, freedom, and learning experiences that come from being able to scale, swing and hang from nature's original jungle gym… the tree!

Where did it all go wrong?

In today's episode, we are sharing our tips on how you can help children climb trees safely and we are asking some tough questions about whether the presence of adults is actually hindering children’s ability to risk assess.

In this episode, we discuss:

✔️ The shocking decline of tree climbing

✔️Our own experiences with being chastised for our children’s tree climbing

✔️Why you should not lift children into trees

✔️How to coach children’s climbing and what NOT to do

✔️Our game-changing tree-climbing advice for young children

Full show notes for this episode can be found at:

https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/tree-climbing-the-forgotten-playground 

When You're Ready, Here's How We Can Help You: Want to learn the "on the ground" skills you NEED to run children's activities with fire, water and hand tools? 

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1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
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3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

❌Newsflash: Risky Play isn’t as simple as giving children the old hammer from the rusty toolbox in the garage.

 In fact, doing that will probably cause more accidents and set everyone up for a negative experience. 

We used to think that ‘any’ hand tool was better than none.... until we saw some were too heavy, too bulky, and hindering the learning process for children.

It was a bit like trying to eat soup with a fork. Rather frustrating for all involved.

So today we will share with you the TOP THREE hand tools we believe every child and educator should be using to extend learning with loose parts and adventurous play. 

In this episode, we discuss:

✔️ Why less is more when it comes to resources and loose parts

✔️The benefits of child-size hand tools

✔️How learning injuries are a part of the process

✔️Top Three Hand Tools for young children (3-12 years)

✔️Additional Hand Tools for advanced learning (7-12 years)

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Full show notes for this episode can be found at:
https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/right-tools-for-the-job 

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When You're Ready, Here's How We Can Help You: Want to learn the "on the ground" skills you NEED to run children's activities with fire, water and hand tools? Wild School Skills is for playworkers, educators and aspiring forest school leaders.

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3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

"Look, it has pockets!" said the child as they emptied the rocks, shells, and leaves from the pockets of their new skirt.

And we have to admit, as grown women, we too have twirled in excitement when FINALLY finding a dress or skirt that can fit our wallets, phones, and car keys but it makes us ask the question... 

Are we letting "looks" get in the way of "life" and what kind of message is that sending to our children especially when that comes to nature play?

In this episode, we discuss:

✔️Our experiences with children wearing inappropriate clothing in a nature play session and what are the best clothes and shoes to wear

✔️The adulteration of children's clothing 

✔️Our thoughts on the gender discussion when it comes to clothing for boys and girls

✔️Why children need to feel free to move in their clothing and how this impacts their sensory experiences

✔️How dressing children in “hi-vis” vests sends the message that children are separate from nature

Full show notes for this episode can be found at:

https://www.raisingwildlings.com.au/blog/is-fashion-stifling-childhood 

When You're Ready, Here's How We Can Help You:

1. Want to learn the "on the ground" skills you NEED to run children's activities with fire, water and hand tools?  Wild School Skills is for play workers, educators and aspiring forest school leaders. Apply now to get an invitation to our FREE training in May  
2. Are you ready to create your own Wildly Successful Nature Play Business? Head to www.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness to access the roadmap to start your own Wild Business. 
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3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

Sometimes in life you meet people who’s experience and inspiration mirrors your own and that is what I feel about my guest today. Celia Hogan is the founder of Little Kiwis in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and we shared such a rich and inspiring chat today which I think you are going to love. 

👉  Celia Shares

• Her journey that brought her to where she is today
• About Little Kiwis Nature Play
• Her inspiration to start her Wild Business
• The nature play landscape in New Zealand?
• How she embeds Maori culture in her programs
• Why it is important to for children to have adventure in their lives
• Why risk is essential in child development
• The largest hurdles she has had to overcome in her nature play journey
• The benefits of starting a nature play business in your community

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Celia Hogan, Founder of Little Kiwis Nature Play is a Nature Education Specialist, Consultant, Speaker and Parenting Coach. She is passionate about connecting children to nature and is a strong advocate for nature play, risky play and improving mental health and well-being through nature. For the past 24 years, she has worked for a variety of outdoor education organisations internationally, setting up, developing and running outdoor programmes, wilderness expeditions, leadership development programmes and establishing risk management and safety systems. She splits her time with professional development training for teachers, coaching parents, running her Bush Kindy and taking her own tamariki on lots of adventures. She is chair of Nature Education Aotearoa, co-chair of Education Outdoors New Zealand and is an advisor for ECE Reform.

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1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
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3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

You’ve all heard the saying, ‘If you play with fire, you’re going to get burnt,' well we have another saying at Wildlings, and that’s, ‘If you don't play with fire you WILL get burnt.’ Today’s episode is all about why we must teach children fire safety.

👉  Nicki and Vicci Share: 

• Some striking facts about fire danger in Australia and around the world
• Why it is important to teach children about fire safety
• The importance and power of fire and how to teach responsibility in children around fires
• The harms of misusing fire in front of our children
• Flow on effects of generations that don’t understand fire safety
• About acknowledging First Nations uses of fire from an ecological perspective
• That knowledge is power and how to equip yourself and your children to be fire savvy.

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Vicci Oliver and Nicki Farrell are adventurous nature play makers, risk-takers, children’s rights advocates and the co-founders of Wildlings Forest School. We are the hosts of the ‘Raising Wildlings’ podcast and we put the dirt back in childhood.

During any Wildlings Forest School program, you are likely to find Wildlings up trees, sliding down mud slides, whittling with pocket knives, lighting fires and building rafts. We let kids, be kids - because children can’t learn to protect nature if they’ve never had a childhood in it.

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Imagine making play your life’s work. In today’s podcast, I talk with professional playworker and child advocate, Marc Armitage, who has done just that. We are chatting all about the role of adults and he asks us what is our agenda when it comes to providing play opportunities for children. 

👉  Marc Shares: 

• How his journey got started
• How playwork differs from other approaches to working with children
• That playwork is a unique way of connecting with children
• How playworkers balance the need for children to have autonomy with the need to ensure their safety
• The role of playworkers in play in developing and maintaining play environments
• How playworkers can create play spaces that are open-ended and allow for a wide range of play opportunities
• His definition of risky play
• About the risky play diet.
• Strategies to help children develop a sense of risk assessment and decision making when it comes to risky play
• The new types of risky play
• Why is it critical that we allow children the opportunity to play on their own terms
• His favourite type of adventurous play

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👉 Guest Details

Marc Armitage is an consultant, researcher and writer in children’s play, playing and Playwork. He began his professional career as a playworker in the early 1980s with a local organisation in the UK, Hull Community Playschemes Association, and since then has worked as a field playworker, an adventure playground worker, a double decker playbus worker, a local authority play development officer, a university lecturer, research associate and a company director. 

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Nature schools are on the rise here in Australia and around the world and I am not just talking about Forest Schools like Wildlings. These schools have to follow Australian Curriculum, but are prioritising getting kids outside! Today I want to introduce Joanna Griffith from Kwoorabup Nature School in Western Australia.

👉  Joanna Shares:

• Her philosophy and the inspiration behind Kwoorabup Nature School
• The significance of the land on which they learn and play
• About the meaning of the school name, indigenous connection and what they are actively doing to embed indigenous perspectives at Kwoorabup
• The importance of connecting with other changemakers in education
• About her staff including what kind of teachers or mentors work with the children at Kwoorabup and the kind of training they have
• The biggest challenges they face
• Her favourite moments working with and observing the children and how she balances the administration side of her job and her involvement with the students

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Book Recc:
Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature

Head here if you are interested in starting your own Nature School!

👉 Guest Details

Joanna Griffith is the principal of a new nature school in WA called Kwoorabup. She has a passion for nature based learning, inquiry teaching and has a compassionate and collaborative leadership style. 

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Honestly, our kids get a rough go. What we often expect of them at a young age can far outweigh what their brain can actually manage — and we don’t even realise we’re doing it! Today we’re finishing our chat with Allison Davies.
Today we’re chatting about the importance of predictability for children, Hyperactivity and her family’s journey from homeschooling to schooling.
You can catch the first part of our conversation in last week’s episode. 

👉  Alli Shares

• About Brain = Behavior
• Why predictability in a child’s life is so important
• What happens in the brain when it can predict
• How to create more predictability in even the most chaotic environments
• About Hyperactivity: why it happens and how to support your child’s hyperactivity without ever having to focus on its’ related behaviours
• Her journey from homeschooling to schooling

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Your Wild Business is a business kickstarter program like no other. 
Specifically designed for Teachers, Forest School Leaders, Outdoor Reccies and Early Years Educators who are are ready to leap into the big, wide world of business.

If you want to take the guesswork out of starting from scratch and more importantly if you want to AVOID the three most common mistakes others have made when they started their nature play business - Head to hwww.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness and check out our exclusive training to get you started on the right path towards your wild business journey.

👉 Guest Details

Allison holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Teaching, a Master of Music Therapy and Neurologic Music Therapy training. A former Registered Music Therapist of 16 years, Alli left the Allied Health industry in 2021 in order to align her work more deeply with culturally responsive practices and to switch her focus from individual change to socio cultural change. She is an independent liberatory scholar currently exploring the gatekeeping and classism of the social construct ‘musical vs non musical’.

Alli is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning difficulties. She works within a neurodiversity framework that favours deep acceptance and regulation over assimilation and intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her seminars, workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.

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1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
2. Ready to create your own Nature Play business? Head to www.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness to access the roadmap to starting your business journey.
3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

In this episode, we chat to former Neurologic Music Therapist Allison who stepped out of the allied health system after 16 years, and now focuses on enacting societal change by dismantling harmful musical myths. To get a sense of what Alli is all about, I thought I’d read one of her quotes which I love.

‘As a woman I was suppressed by the systems that told me to ‘be seen and not heard’, to ‘stop being hysterical’ and to ‘not give up my day job’ in response to my musical expression.
Others were led to believe that not being able to play an instrument, sing in tune or access lessons meant they were ‘not musical’. Some were told to mime in the school choir. Many were punished for using their voice to speak up.
These systems are coming to an end.
AND WE ARE THE ONES DISMANTLING THEM.”

Oof. Did you feel that? Yes? Then let’s chat to Alli about music and the brain, how to use music to help children regulate and how we are all musical. This is episode one of two of our chat together.

👉  Alli Shares

• About the connection between music and the brain
• That music is a tool for healing
• How  we as parents and educators use music in different ways to help children regulate
• Her work to dismantle the myth that people aren’t “musical”
• Why we listen to music on repeat

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Book Reccs:
Kissing the Hag: The Dark Goddess and the Unacceptable Nature of Women by Emma Restall Orr

👉 Guest Details

Allison holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Teaching (University of New England, 2003), a Master of Music Therapy (University of Queensland, 2005) and Neurologic Music Therapy training (Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, 2016). A former Registered Music Therapist of 16 years, Alli left the Allied Health industry in 2021 in order to align her work more deeply with culturally responsive practices and to switch her focus from individual change to socio cultural change. She is an independent liberatory scholar currently exploring the gatekeeping and classism of the social construct ‘musical vs non musical’.

Alli is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning difficulties. She works within a neurodiversity framework that favours deep acceptance and regulation over assimilation and intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her seminars, workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.

Wildlings Forest School Contact Details

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Other ways we can help you:

1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
2. Ready to create your own Nature Play business? Head to www.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness to access the roadmap to starting your business journey.
3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)

• What worry might feel like in a child’s body
• Simple strategies for parents wanting to help their children manage anxiety
• Why it's important to start these conversations with children from a young age
• About her Guided Questions to help continue the conversation about children’s worries
• What else she has in the pipeline

Other ways we can help you:

1. Want to learn the game-changing soft skills you'll need while leading group activities with fire, water and tools? Catch Our FREE Mini Training On The First Steps You Must Take To Lead A Forest School Program
2. Ready to create your own Nature Play business? Head to www.raisingwildlings.com.au/wildbusiness to access the roadmap to starting your business journey.
3. Keen to find your purpose in 10 minutes? Download our FREE treasure map to find your passion without compromising your educational values.
4. Want to know how to craft an epic outdoor program that has parents and directors lining up to enrol? You need Nature Play Now our $57 Workshop and Bundle series (people are saying this is a steal!)