About Wild Pathways
Wild Pathways is a collaboration between Hazel Branagan and Amber Godwin (read about us below). This programme was created as a response to the clear need our society has for community, meaning and celebration of our young people. We seek to provide youth with tools to navigate this liminal time and to recognise their place in the wider web of society and the natural world. Our aim is to guide, support, challenge, and celebrate our teens, to help them to discover their sense of self so that they may head towards adulthood with a clear sense of who they are becoming.
Meet Your Guides
Amber Godwin
Amber (she/her) is a qualified Forest School Leader with a passion for being outdoors and for working with communities in nature. Having completed her Forest School Training in 2018, Amber has been very active in setting up and running Forest School for home educated children through 3 trees Forest School. Being able to provide an alternative educational option for families is central to her work, and it has been very rewarding to see the community grow and thrive in nature.
After completing a degree in Visual Communication in Edinburgh College of Art, Amber worked in the arts for many years before discovering Forest School. Considering herself a lifelong learner, Amber has since completed CPD courses, attended Forest School gatherings and has embarked upon deep nature connection journeys for her own development.
Amber is now part of the training team for the Forest School Leadership QQI level 6 qualification through Brigit's Garden, empowering a whole new set of adults to bring Forest School to their local wild spaces.
Hazel Branagan
Hazel (she/her) is passionate about living an embodied, relational life in conscious reciprocity with this animate earth.
She has been a body worker for more than 20 years, weaving Yoga, Ayurveda, Somatics and Embodiment practices into her teachings. She is passionate about creating spaces where people can explore embodying their relationship with the natural world and how to live in reciprocity.
Seeking more active ways to feel deeper relationship with the more than human world, Hazel began learning with Lucy O'Hagan of Wild Awake in 2021 and has been learning from and supporting them in courses ever since. She stepped over the threshold of a vision fast in 2022 and went on to train as a Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide in 2024. The profundity of these experiences ripple through the contours of her life continuously.
Hazel is a community herbalist, having trained with Nikki Darrel of The Plant Medicine School and trained as a grief tender with Francis Weller.
Always a student to this life, Hazel is truly grateful to all her teachers.