Episode Details

Season 2, Episode 13:

My guest today on The Wild Minds Podcast is Professor Jan White, a leading thinker and writer on outdoor play and an advocate for high quality outdoor provision for services for children from birth to seven.

Jan is also an award-winning author and in addition to numerous other achievements, is the strategic director of Early Childhood Outdoors.

In this episode we talk about:

• The importance and purpose of childhood and outdoor play
• How the environment invites us and creates bonding
• We examine the term ecological identity and why we must protect the final frontier of outdoor play.

LINKS:

www.janwhitenaturalplay.wordpress.com

The Certificate In Outdoor Practice

www.earlychildhoodoutdoors.org

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/professor-jan-white/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Green Health Virtual Gathering 2026

Embedding Nature in Practice - From Vision to Delivery This gathering brings together psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, GPs, allied health professionals and NHS leaders exploring how nature-informed approaches can be implemented safely and credibly within real-world healthcare settings. https://circleofliferediscovery.com/gathering