CAMP FOR TEACHERSA weekend that is only for you.
Two days, one night under canvas, and the secret of becoming a HeartWise teacher.
Only 30 seats • Early bird LKR 35,000 • Join with friends: LKR 30,000 each
Teachers are full of knowledge. What makes it productive?
I have worked with teachers and schools in different countries, and learned alongside educators from around the world, including at the Nobel Prize Teacher Summit. Everywhere I saw the same thing: teachers are full of knowledge and context.
What is often missing is the time and the practice to turn that knowledge into something that reaches a child's heart: calm, connection, emotional intelligence and a clear sense of purpose. That is the piece that makes knowledge productive.
So we created Rooted & Ready at Forest School Colombo, to share what we have learned with every teacher who wants it. Our purpose is simple: all teachers, for all children.
Yasmin Mubarak
Founder & CEO, Polaricx Education Ecosystem · Forest School Colombo
Learn the secret of the HeartWise teacher and school
Social-emotional learning and emotional intelligence are what today's children need to thrive, and what tomorrow's workforce asks for: self-regulation, empathy, teamwork, communication and resilience. You will learn it all by practising.
A HeartWise teacher
- ◆Sees the child behind the behaviour
- ◆Steadies herself first, in under thirty seconds
- ◆Builds the relationship before asking for results
- ◆Meets a big feeling with a clear, kind path
A HeartWise school
- ◆Every adult shares one language for feelings
- ◆Calm corners and outdoor learning spaces
- ◆Repair after conflict, not just punishment
- ◆Every child known by name and by heart
The purpose of childhood
- ◆Childhood is not a rehearsal for adult life
- ◆Its purpose is to be happy, to be known, and to grow into who the child really is
- ◆Teachers make a promise to protect that purpose
No slides. No rows of chairs.
Everything is taught on foot, in circles, by the water and around a fire, because a calm body learns differently from a seated one.
Opening circle under the Wisdom Tree
Arrive, take your shoes off and be welcomed. Thirty teachers, one circle, one honest word each.
Become a HeartWise teacher
The Iceberg, the L.A.N.T.E.R.N. path and your own superpowers: social-emotional learning and emotional intelligence, practised, not just discussed.
Nature as your biggest resource
Explore the lake path and learn how trees, soil, water and sky can teach any subject in a way children remember.
Build a shelter with your team
A hands-on challenge that shows how you really work together, and how children learn by making.
Sunset boat ride and fire-cooked dinner
Half an hour of silence on Bolgoda Lake, then cook dinner together on an open fire.
Sunrise yoga and quiet time
Begin Sunday with breath by the lake, and fifteen silent minutes alone in nature.
Teach outdoors, any subject
Maths, science, language and art taken outside, through nature and play.
Build a calm corner
Make your own calm corner and outdoor learning space from natural materials.
Nature is the biggest resource in your school.
You will learn how to take nature as your resource and use it to teach any subject in an inspiring way that children remember for life. These are the practices nature-inspired teachers use, and we share them all.
You do not need a forest. A tree, a patch of soil and a sky are enough.
Childhood is not a rehearsal for adult life.
Its purpose is to be happy, to be known, and to grow into exactly who the child really is. On the last evening every teacher makes this promise together:
- ✦I will put every child's happiness and wellbeing at the heart of my teaching.
- ✦I will see the child before I see the behaviour.
- ✦I will help each child become who they truly want to be, not who I expect them to be.
- ✦I will look after myself, so that I can look after them.
- ✦I will bring nature into my teaching, and the children outdoors.
- ✦I will leave no child behind.
Two days, one night, nothing wasted
Saturday 14 November
Adults go first
Sunday 15 November
Carrying it back
One price. Everything included.
Your stay in a canvas tent, all meals and tea (breakfast, lunch and dinner), every session and material, the guidebook, a sunset boat ride and your certificate.
per teacher
per teacher · save LKR 5,000
each, when 3 or more of you enrol together
If you teach, or hope to, this weekend was made for you.
- ✓School teachers
- ✓Preschool teachers
- ✓Student teachers and trainees
- ✓Teacher-training institutes (send a cohort)
- ✓Schools and preschools: even one teacher is enough to begin
- ✓Anyone really drawn to teaching
Questions teachers ask
Join The Heartwood Circle
Heartwood is the strong, living core of a tree, the part that holds everything up. The Heartwood Circle is the HeartWise Teacher Network, a community of teachers who share one vision: children who are happy, seen and free to become who they want to be.
Rooted together. Growing every month.
Every Rooted & Ready participant joins automatically. Schools can send a teacher and bring the whole staffroom into the network over time.
Thirty seats. Keep one for yourself.
It takes two minutes. We will confirm your place by email and WhatsApp.
Teach for the 21st Century. Leave No Child Behind.
Forest School Colombo · Bolgoda Lake, Piliyandala
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