About Eunoia Forest School

The research shows that children need risk. This workshop gives educators the tools to move from instinct-driven restriction to confident, documented, child-centred risk practice. We discuss 3 risk-assessment types, theory, and put it into practice. 

Full-Day or Half-Day options available

Your outdoor space is a curriculum. Learn how to design environments using loose parts and natural materials that provoke deep, meaningful, child-led learning. Opportunities for redesign of your program's outdoor space. 

Half-Day Workshop

Ontario's How Does Learning Happen framework, taken outside. Explore what belonging, well-being, engagement, and expression look like when the classroom is a forest, a field, or a backyard. 

Half-Day Workshop (often paired with Observation, Documentation, and Assessment) 

ECE Version: See more, record better, and actually use what you notice. A practical workshop on bias-aware observation and ELECT-aligned documentation. 

Teacher Version: Growing Success tells you what to assess. This workshop focuses on the part that comes before. How to observe children at play and learning with intention, how to document what you see without bias, and how to use that documentation to inform planning, reporting, and professional judgment. Practical, curriculum-aligned, and built for the reality of a busy Ontario classroom.

Half-Day Workshop often paired with HDLH above.

Schools often choose both workshops and will offer half-day to ECE's, then Half-Day to Teachers

Outdoor spaces should work for every child. Learn how to design nature-based environments that support sensory processing, regulation, and inclusion across a range of developmental needs.

With given strategies that actually work in classrooms. Designed by Ellisha, a public school teacher, Special Education Resource Teacher, Forest School Practitioner, and parent of a child with Special Needs.

Half-Day or Full-Day option.

Ropes, Forts, Hammers, saws, fire, and real materials. This workshop builds educator confidence with tools so children can access genuine challenge and hands-on projects in your program. Educators learn the research behind tool-use, how to safely scaffold the learning, and use these tools themselves. 

We love to deliver this workshop outside as it offers a hands-on approach, but it is not mandatory. 

Half-Day vs. Full-Day determines which tools are shared and how in-depth we go.

The conversations most educators dread. Scripts, strategies, and confidence for bringing families along when your program shifts toward risky, outdoor, and child-led play.

We provide letters and pamphlets that you can copy and share with families to get them on-board with the research. 

Half-Day workshop

Children don't need expensive toys, they need time, space, and permission. This workshop unpacks the science behind open-ended materials and messy play, and gives you practical strategies for setting up rich outdoor learning environments. Whether it's a backyard, balcony, or public park.

Spoiler: it doesn't always look productive. This workshop breaks down what play actually is (not what adults think it is), why it matters more than most structured activities, and how to recognize and support the real thing when you see it. Even if the kids do look feral.

Your instinct to protect your child is valid. Your child's instinct to climb that tree is also valid. This workshop explores the research on risk, reward, and resilience, and helps you figure out where your limits are, why they're there, and whether they need to stay.

This workshop connects the outdoor environment to emotional regulation, conflict, cooperation, and self-awareness, with concrete examples of what that looks like in real time with real children. We also discuss sensory regulation and how to implement strategies.

You don't need a forest. You need a plan. This workshop gives families the tools to bring Forest School principles into their own backyard, neighbourhood park, or green space, without overhauling your life.

(While Keeping Outdoor Learning Alive) 

Starting school doesn't have to mean starting over. This workshop helps families understand what skills actually matter for school readiness, how outdoor play builds them, and how to protect time outside even when the schedule fills up with homework and structured programs.

This one's for you. Not your kid. Adults need unstructured time in nature too, and most of us have forgotten how to do it. Spend a day reconnecting with outdoor learning as a participant, not a facilitator, and leave with a better understanding of why it works and what it actually feels like from the inside.