Heidi Reed
Founder, One Forest
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Steering Committee Member
The Basics
Company Name: One Forest
Location: Nellysford, Virginia, USA
Founded: 2016
Full-Time Employees: N/A Covid-19 has currently stopped our regular programming. We hope to resume in the late autumn. We have one full time employee and four part-time employees.
Products: Programming including Forest School for young children, Forest Playgroups for families, Rewild Motherhood Retreats, Forest School trainings, Homeschool Club and more.
Social: Instagram // Facebook
Claim to Fame: Forest Playgroup has been the place where new moms and dads have found a connection to other parents and received the healing benefits of nature. Heidi Reed is one of the first few certified Level 3 Forest School leaders, in the USA, who trained in the UK. Bringing the UK Forest School pedagogy to One Forest programs and beyond.
The Culture
The best thing about working at One Forest is:
Guiding and observing a deeper connection to the natural world and each other in program participants.
When we’re not working, we’re:
Hiking to wild swimming spots and creating delicious homegrown or locally sourced meals.
What we’re reading:
Mindset By Carol Dweck, Play By Stuart Brown, We Should All Be Feminists By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Power of Habit By Charles Duhigg, The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales By Dawn Casey & Anne Wilson
What we’re listening to:
Birdsong, a laughing creek, and wind rustling the leaves in the trees.
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
One Forest: Where Connection Happens.
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
It is a basic human right to have access to the outdoors.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
We continue to run existing programs on the farm as well as working with the local public schools to bring access to the outdoors and Forest School learning experiences for all.