It Takes A Village To Run A Forest School with Amanda England
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.
In this podcast Amanda shares:
- How she started her career as a teacher
- What led her to meeting Nicki & Vicci
- The hardest part of starting the Brisbane branch of Wildlings
- The greatest learnings she has had in the world of small business
- How building networks and relationships has been the game changer when it comes to instigating change for children
- Her work as a phD candidate in the forest school space
Find out more about Amanda and her Nature Play Philosophy & Pedagogy PhD work hereπ @in_nature_play
Amanda is available as a guest speaker and to run workshops and consultations Australia-wide. She is available to run Bush Kindy programs at services throughout Brisbane.
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