In Partnership with MacGregor Ranch
What’s a Forest School?
A forest school is a school that draws inspiration from the greatest teacher: Nature. It takes place outside on the dirt and in the weather, and its curriculum is focused on natural rhythms and play.
The Mission of
Free Folk Forest School:
The Free Folk Forest School aims to cultivate groundedness, connection, and passion for nature within our community.
We aim to perpetuate the wild, ancient traditions of the land we inhabit while cultivating a wild-focused village to support parents and their littles.
Free Folk Forest School is a nature-based, caregiver-and-child integration program designed for children ages 0–4 and their parents or guardians. Unlike traditional schooling, Forest School integrates internal work for the parents as well as external play for the kiddos.
Who’s it for?
Free Folk Forest School is ecstatic to be partnering with MacGregor Ranch, a 2500 acre land trust bordering the Rocky Mountain National Park here in Estes Park, Colorado
Where and When?
Each Session Includes
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Open and Closing Ritual
Each session will begin and end with a circle and song to gently ease into the space
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Minimally Structured Play
Each session will have it’s own theme; within that theme there will be exploratory activities for little ones to engage in - or ! they can choose to freely engage with the forest
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Inner Work for the Caregiver
As we play with our actual children, we also reparent and integrate our own inner children. There will be a focus each session on exploring the layers of truths parenting reveals
Themes By Date
July/August: Connection & Curiosity
Archetype: The Martyr
Invitation: Follow the senses and simple patterns of rhythm
(July 28) – Welcome to the Forest
(Aug 4) – Ground & Listen
(Aug 11) – Find Your Forest Feet
(Aug 18) – Water Wonders
August/September: Creative Chaos
Archetype: The Rebel
Invitation: Mud, movement, expression, “yes!” energy
(Aug 25) – Mudfest & Mayhem
(Sept 1) – Echoes & Rhythms
(Sept 8) – Color Outside the Lines
(Sept 15) – Dancing With the Wind
October: Letting Go & Deep Listening
Archetype: The Inner Child
Invitation: Stillness, reflection, wind, shadow play
(Oct 6) – Shadows and Light
(Oct 13) – Closing Circle (We Are Held)
September: Balance & Boundaries
Archetype: The Gatekeeper
Invitation: Explore edges, limits, independence within safe connection
(Sept 22) – Follow the Trail
(Sept 29) – The Nest and the Wild
About Your Facilitator: Sary Wynren
Sary is an outdoorswoman and personal growth facilitator; she has spent her adult life wandering through the woods all over the world in search of her own healing. Sary has been facilitating transformative containers since 2017 after completing her education in early childhood education, neurobiology, unconsciousness integration, and nervous system healing.
Her focus as a parent has been on breaking generational cycles of trauma by parenting and educating through the lens of attachment theory and the neurobiology of nurture.
Questions?
Questions?
Do you have questions or concerns about Free Folk Forest School? Get directly in touch with Sary now.