Ep 247 - Intra-Relational Behaviour Support.

Ep 247 - Intra-Relational Behaviour Support.

From The Forest School Podcast by Lewis Ames and Wem Southerden

June 11, 2026 · 46 min · Season 2 · Episode 247

About this episode

The episode explores an intraaction-based approach to behaviour support in forest school settings.

What if the secret to better behaviour support in forest school isn't focusing on the child at all? Lewis and Wem are back for a wide-ranging, woodland-based chat that opens with lime plaster, kilts, and a mosaic pizza oven before diving into some genuinely rich territory: what does it actually mean to take an intraaction-based approach to behaviour? How do you move away from old-school "fix the child" thinking without sliding into permissiveness? And what can a day of interpretive dance, collective poetry, and drama research in Bristol teach us about forest school pedagogy? Plus: squirrels, rabbits round the fire pit, the Southwest FSA Gathering, tenon cutters, and Wem's mysterious single-name workshop listing at the national conference. Chapter Titles and Timestamps: 0:00 - Lime plaster, kilts, and a mosaic pizza oven 2:00 - Wearing messy, child-made things as a badge of honour 4:29 - Following up on Dr Wendy Russell: intraaction and behaviour support 6:54 - Old-school behaviour management vs. shifting what you can actually control 8:50 - The soup of a person: inner worlds, neuroplasticity, and fixed mindset language 14:20 - Persistent offering and not closing doors too early…

People in this episode

Hosts: Lewis Ames, Wem Southerden

Topics covered

  • intraaction-based behaviour support
  • forest school pedagogy
  • behaviour management
  • neuroplasticity
  • creative research
  • social justice

Keywords

  • behaviour support
  • forest school
  • intraaction
  • permissiveness
  • neuroplasticity
  • creative research
  • social justice

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Tangled Roots of Creative Research and Social Justice

Places: Bristol

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