The Wild Minds Podcast

In Episode 30, Marina is exploring how we exile certain feelings to our unconscious, and how much we need them back, when we are ready, to be able to feel our grief and to avoid looking for relief in distractions, buying things, blaming others, so that we don’t abandon our own wild dreams and values. 

Humans are certainly very complex, and I am very interested in how our suppression of feelings is connected to the suppression of our wild ‘natural’ nature, which includes expression of emotions. 

In this Episode Marina discusses:

Emotions are very rational...

My guest today is neuroscience educator, Sarah Peyton, who is an author, an international constellations facilitator, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, and someone who has spent many years integrating constellations, brain science and the use of resonant language to heal trauma.

In this episode we dive into:

Flight and fight and a less known distress response ‘alarmed aloneness’ – or separation distress.We linked loneliness as a killer and the stressor of aloneness – the modern culture of ‘grow up’, ‘don’t cry’, ‘you can do it on our own’ messages.Re-affirming that our biology says we are not supposed to be alo...

In Episode 28, Marina is feeling more reflective as she revisits some of the themes from her conversation with Peter Owen Jones last week.

In this Episode Marina contemplates:

A sense of sanctuary and intimacy with the non-human world, and ‘place’.The celebration of springtime and how the greening of our land informs our practice.The inner compass that pulls us home and helps us navigate the journey.Themes of love and punishment and how we exile parts that we find difficult to ‘own’ as part of ourselves.  How do we bring them home? My curiosity about the teach...

My guest today is Peter Owen Jones, who is an ecological thinker and activist, as well as a celebrated BBC TV presenter.

In this episode we dive into:

Are your dancing days ever done?What gets sacrificed for order?Melancholia as a teacherPlug into love as our main human job.The call of the religions of love and similarities rather than differences – are our hearts different?Jesus as a radical teacher of love!Life is not meant to be easy, and we need to love in the face of painA rewording of the ‘Lord’s Prayer’The toug...

In Episode 26, Marina looks at:

The importance of knowing that our behaviour does not really reflect what is going on internally and that most of the time we are not aware of our how our unmet needs are fuelling the behaviour that we need support for, not punishment.

Behaviour is an outward expressions of feelings, thoughts, needs and intentions (see Alfie Kohn’s work).How do we want our children to turn out?What’s the cost of a punitive and controlling approach?What does punishment really teach us?Healthy relationships are fundamental to well-being.

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To kick off Season 4, Marina is speaking with Jon Cree, who is the co-author of their book, “The Essential Guide to Forest School and Nature Pedagogy”. 

They dive into:

What underpins a healthy model of education?How love really is an essential ingredient.A new model of partnership rather than dominationDiscovering wholehearted learningThe role of love and understanding our needsNeurobiology & our nervous systemsHow we do this in our practice

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-25-why-love-matters-with-jon-cree/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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In Episode 24, Marina looks at:

Our mind's potentialWhat is your Ecological Niche?Embracing the Nature-Centric Model.Choosing where to direct your attention.Fostering a quieter mind.Action as an antidote to anxiety.Humans as net contributors.What is the next moment of experience?

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-24-why-is-experiential-learning-needed-in-education/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 3, Episode 23:

In this week's podcast, I'm chatting to Roger Duncan, an eco-systemic psychotherapist within the NHS.

For over 30 years, he worked within the nature therapy world, was one of the pioneer tutors of the Ruskin Mill Education Trust, is a wilderness passage guide and developed a UK based Eco-psychotherapy course called 'Reclaiming our Indigenous Relationship with Nature'.

We dive into:

What is an eco-systemic psychotherapist?How our world is made up of systems and how we think about systems.The impact of modernity and colonization.Tentacular thinking and re-imagining what it...

In Episode 22, Marina looks at:

Our mind's potentialWhat is your Ecological Niche?Embracing the Nature-Centric Model.Choosing where to direct your attention.Fostering a quieter mind.Action as an antidote to anxiety.Humans as net contributors.What is the next moment of experience?

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-22-ecological-niches-unravelling-our-role/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Season 3, Episode 21:

In this week's podcast, I'm chatting to Angharad Wynne, who is a writer and storyteller, a place-maker and heritage specialist with over 25 years of experience in the field.

We dive into:

Indigenous Spirituality from this land.The superpower of vulnerabilityWhat arises from the connection between people and place?Experiencing the world as inspirited.What it means to make sacred.What is sacred reciprocity?The need for mythos and logos.Honouring our known sense of connection.What does the Winter Solstice mean to us and our ancestors?A message of forgiveness, peace and...