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How to navigate mixing traditional knowledge with modern approaches

Our forest school collective has been working with a local indigenous educator for two years, but lately there's tension because some parents want to incorporate other 'nature-based' practices they've read about and others feel like we're diluting something precious.

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What we've seen

A learning community is struggling with the impulse to synthesize traditions in ways that may undermine the integrity of what they originally sought.

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