Promoting pro-social and pro-ecological behaviours at Forest School - Webinar for Forest School

This is the recording of the November 2023 Wednesday Webinar for Forest School. FSA Ambassador, Jon Cree shares the latest neuroscience and somatic practices focusing on a needs-based approach to working with behaviour.
Quality Forest School for all - www.forestschoolassociation.org
We wish to express our gratitude to Jon for blowing our minds and grounding our nervous systems!
FIND OUT MORE AND SUPPORT OUR VISION:
The FSA is the professional body for Forest School and believes in ‘Quality Forest School for All’. These FREE monthly webinars are one example of how we support Forest School practitioners continually develop their practice. We also:
- Support local Forest School networking groups
- Host an annual conference
- Provide guidance notes on quality Forest School practice
- Share weekly E-Newsletters
- Recognise and support Forest School providers
- Work with Forest School trainers and awarding bodies to ensure quality Forest School training experiences
- Offer discounts on a range of Forest School products and services - insurance, clothing, kit
- Published a book ‘Growing a Forest School from the Roots Up’ - to support anyone starting their Forest School journey (FSA members get 30% off)
- Support the Nature Premium campaign, a UK wide campaign to connect all children with nature - www.naturepremium.org
As a registered UK charity we rely on our membership to support our vision. Individual membership is available for as little as £35 a year. Join our community and together we will grow quality Forest School for all - www.forestschoolassociation.org Use the discount code web10 to save 10% when you join.
Jon has shared some Links & References:
- Peter Levine and Maggie Kline is a must ‘Trauma through a Child’s Eyes; awakening the ordinary miracle of healing - infancy through to adolescence’. Full of case studies, excellent resources and exercises AND gives a clear explanation of trauma and anxiety from toddler to teen.
- Maggie Klines recent book (2022) is also worth a read - lots of exercises and theoretical underpinnings to trauma and the 8 essentials for healthy attachment ‘Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof our Schools - a heart-centred movement for wiring well-being’
- For people working with body and polyvagal theory see levine above and Irene Lyon at irenelyon.com/ If working with trauma, children and families see Gabor Mate's books - namely these two. First written with Gordon Neufield 'Hold on to your Kids - why parents need to matter more than their peers' and his latest with all the research pulled together on trauma and stress 'The Myth of Normal - trauma, illness and healing in a toxic culture' see drgabormate.com
- Stuart Shankers website on self regulation website offers a number of simple resources and films on how to recognise stressors across the five domains - biological, emotional, cognitive, social and pro-social and then how to self regulate and support self regulation - see self-reg.ca/
- The Zones of Regulation website has some good resources for schools and worth looking at the book. see zonesofregulat...
- Margot Sunderland - ‘Using Storytelling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children’ and ‘The Science of Parenting’. Margot makes the brain body stuff easy to understand and her storytelling book has lots of tips of working with anxiety and trauma. See the Child Mental Health Centre for more of Margot’s offerings www.childmenta...
- For the most up to date brain stuff see Lisa feldman Barrett's latest 'Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain' see lisafeldmanbar...
- For working with self regulation and co-regulation Naomi Fishers books are excellent, her latest on neurodivergence and self directed learning is excellent 'A Different Way to Learn - neurodivergence and self-directed learning' also see 'Changing our Minds - how children can take control of their own learning' see www.naomifishe...
- For working with sensory needs see Angie Voss 'Understanding your child's sensory signals' see www.asensoryli...
- For more on low demand language and coregulation, two very practical books are Declarative Language and Coregulation by Linda Murphy see her website
www.declarativelanguage.com
- And finally for working at Forest School with a needs lens on this is a must from Alice Sheldon 'Why Weren't we Taught THIS at School - the surprisingly simple secret to transforming life's challenges'. Alice Sheldons website www.needs-unde...