Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers

Register on our website to attend live or for a recording.

Time to Register! MAY 10 & 11, 2025 HAW CREEK COMMONS ASHEVILLE, NC

This workshop will focus on what the young child needs and how adults will guide them to it. Workshop outline and details on our website.

**Scholarships Available - we support teachers to inquire about financial support for all of our programs. Go to: www.schoolofintegratedliving.org OR visit Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers website

Register now for a free Q&A! Curious about Reclaiming Nature Connection? Have questions about this unique program? Or just want to learn more about this experience?
Join co-facilitator Lia Grippo as she shares about this year’s workshop, which focuses on what the young child needs and how we, as adults, can guide them to it. She’ll also take time to answer questions so you can gain clarity about joining us this year.
Asheville Program Coordinator NikiAnne Feinberg will also be available to answer questions about the new Asheville program location.
Interested but can’t make it? Register to receive a link to the recording. www.schoolofintegratedliving.org

Rise up oh flame! 🔥 It has been said that you can rub 2 sticks together and birth a coal, tis' true! What a glorious happening to be a part of igniting the fire inside us all! Magic! Thank you Sharon Buczaczer for joining the Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers Level 3- friction fire was awesome🔥🔥🌞

Welcoming the Thunderstorm on a glorious summer day....aaaahhhh
Teacher trainings are magic🌈

Special offer for RETURNING PARTICIPANTS! -

Special offer for RETURNING PARTICIPANTS! We offer returning participants a special discount of up to 50% off of the cost of registration as a THANK YOU for not only doing the work you do, but also for investing in this movement and community by showing up with us year after year!

Happy May Day-the midway points between the solstices and equinoxes of the year. Here's to the celebration of Spring! 🌞🌻🪻🌷🌼

"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They make the heart bigger." Okri -

"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They make the heart bigger." Okri The problem is that we have forgotten how humans really learn, and therefore we struggle with guiding children. Our bodies and brains are built to learn through experience, imitation, and story. It’s one of our ancestral inheritances.

The Kindergarten Queen, Storytelling, Summer is right around the corner! -

The Kindergarten Queen, Storytelling, Summer is right around the corner! “We give from the joy and wonder that come from our hearts where we have those special feelings of connectedness, whether you call it the Divine, or the Universe. Children want to belong and they love diversity. You can’t have oneness without diversity and diversity without oneness.” -Betty P...

Reclaiming Nature Connection with Earthroots Forest School 2024! Awesome group of humans in the rain playing and exploring- thank you everyone, we had a blast!! Next Conference April 19-20 - Utah! More fun to come! 🌿

Here's to International Women's Day! To the mothers, grandmothers, grannies, aunties, sisters, daughters, neighbors, leaders, workers, teachers, scientists, artists, trees, plants, waters...to the feminine. For all we carry, tend, provide, sacrifice, contribute, track, create, face, dream, acknowledge, communicate, gather, and love. "When Mother Trees—the majestic hubs at the center of forest communication, protection, and sentience—die, they pass their wisdom to their kin, generation after generation, sharing the knowledge of what helps and what harms, who is friend or foe, and how to adapt and survive in an ever-changing landscape. It’s what all parents do.
Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Ready to increase your developmental knowledge, deepen your natural connection and bring back gifts to your community/school? LEVEL 1 Forest School Teacher Training is in the Owen's Valley this year! Green pastures, high desert, mountain waters, open skies, rocks, birds, camping, small town charm... www.forestkindergartenacademy.org