The NorthBay Podcast

The NorthBay Podcast
Podcast Description
Welcome to the NorthBay Podcast, where we explore the powerful connection between education, outdoor learning, and personal growth. This season, we’ll highlight outdoor schools and their transformative impact on students. Through expert insights and inspiring stories, we’ll uncover how outdoor experiences foster life skills, resilience, and deeper connections to ourselves and the world. Whether you're a teacher, parent, or student, join us for fresh perspectives and strategies to enhance learning through adventure, connection, and reflection.
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This podcast focuses on themes related to outdoor education, personal growth, and environmental sustainability, featuring episodes like 'Buildings that Teach' which discusses financial accessibility in outdoor schools and 'Outdoor Schools: Essential Education or Just an Adventure?' where the necessity of outdoor education in the modern curriculum is questioned.

Welcome to the NorthBay Podcast, where we explore the powerful connection between education, outdoor learning, and personal growth. This season, we’ll highlight outdoor schools and their transformative impact on students. Through expert insights and inspiring stories, we’ll uncover how outdoor experiences foster life skills, resilience, and deeper connections to ourselves and the world. Whether you’re a teacher, parent, or student, join us for fresh perspectives and strategies to enhance learning through adventure, connection, and reflection.
In this episode, NorthBay founder John Erickson shares the powerful origin story behind NorthBay, from the idea for effective education tactics to birthing a transformative educational experience that has impacted thousands of lives.
John reflects on the values that shaped him and how those same principles became the foundation of NorthBay’s vision: to transform lives and inspire action through outdoor and character education. He opens up about the challenges and breakthroughs in bringing this vision to life, the evolution of the program in future years to come, and his unwavering commitment to making a lasting difference in the lives of students.
Tune in for a conversation full of purpose, passion, and a hopeful look toward NorthBay’s future.

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