Children’s Forest Journey ~ A 6-month Online Course

This online journey is designed to offer nature-based education leaders practical, creative tools and a framework to initiate and plant Children’s Forest projects with your groups in your local areas.

You will be guided through the Four Step Journey and given personal tools, mentorship and resources that will support your journey and your nature programs. Learn how planting trees can deepen the connection for the children, as we restore our forests ecosystems and our experience of ourselves a beneficial, caretaking key stone species.

• How to plant trees in a meaningful and connective way through a head, heart and hands approach to restore both our culture and our environment.
• How to uplift and restore heritage knowledge of the trees, plants and animals through skills such as foraging and tracking in the landscape.
• How planting native fruit and nut species is important for food sovereignty, ecological restoration, and biodiversity. 
• Tools for developing nature connection practices for yourself and groups.
• The power of song, story and the creative arts to develop future generational thinking.
• How to work with schools through curriculum objectives within the context of a Children’s Forest project.
• Bring the richness of ecology into Forest School practice and education through the ongoing tending of forests.
• Meet guest speakers offering expertise and experience
• The Forest from Seed project – how to gather and plant native tree seeds: developing reciprocal relationship with nature.

Visit our website here for more information and get in touch with any questions at courses@childrensforest.earth.