Elena Turetti, Oltre il bosco, 2020

The woods as a privileged place for self-exploration. The woods as a plant community where to recognize the value of diversity, where to recognize life in all its forms, its industriousness, its beauty; the f woods as a place of wonder. The woods as a master of natural time, of its flow, of its slowness or speed, of its rhythm, where to recognize the change as it occurs, where to reconstruct one’s time of attention, observation and contemplation of the world which will then translate into care of the world. The woods as a place of experimentation on oneself, the woods as a place of tests, of trials without the knowledge of what will come after and what will be; the woods as a place to get lost. The woods as a place to build a solid, irreplaceable and renewable relationship with the natural world step by step.

This small editorial project aims to be a working tool for teachers and educators. It was born first as training for adults and then experimentation in schools, an educational approach that chooses the forest as an elective ground for self-exploration.