Stephanie explores nature based mentorship. We focus on the reasons someone might want to participate in a wilderness school and explore take aways that can help folks learn wherever they are in life.  

Stephanie MacKay founder of Fianna Wilderness School - https://fianna.ca/ 
 
**OUTLINE:**  
Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned.
(00:00) Highlight  
(00:40) Intro  
(02:00) Welcoming Exercise  
(09:03) – What is Nature Connection and Wilderness School?  
[Wilderness Awareness School](https://www.wildernessawareness.org/): https://www.wildernessawareness.org/  
[Forest Schools](https://forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/): https://forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/  
(16:01) – A typical day at Wilderness School  
(24:56) – Mentorship  
(31:05) – Public school systems connection to factories  
[Sir Ken Robinson Ted Talk on Education](https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U?t=13): https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U?t=13  
[Factory model school wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_model_school): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_model_school  
(34:15) – Field guides, resources for learning about nature  
(36:28) – Coyote Mentoring _super power for learning and teaching_  
(46:10) – [Wilderness Awareness School,](https://www.wildernessawareness.org/) Duvall Washington: https://www.wildernessawareness.org/  
(47:02) – 3 Tools for mentoring: Trickster, Questioning and Didactic  
(48:00) – Art of Questioning  
Jon Young: https://www.jonyoung.online/  
(50:11) [Lasting lessons and the Google Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect#:~:text=The%20Google%20effect%2C%20also%20called,by%20using%20Internet%20search%20engines.&text=This%20effect%20may%20also%20be,to%20be%20important%20to%20remember.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect  
(55:22) – [Shine Edgar Quote](https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co/episode/2e64a1b6/sound-healing-music-medicine-and-more-w-shine-edgar): https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co/episode/2e64a1b6/sound-healing-music-medicine-and-more-w-shine-edgar  
(56:44) – The value of risk  
(1:05:30) – Rights of passage and Initiation  
(1:15:20) – Sit Spot, aka the shortcut to nature connection  
(1:29:55) – Liminal spaces  
 
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