School in the Forest! Vargiani 2026!

Why bring children into a pristine natural environment in the mountains?

Slow pedagogy!

Time for the body... To walk, to pause, to marvel, to play... Time to breathe.

Time for the mind... To empty itself, to rest, to “remember” its original settings...

Time for the soul... To release tension... to connect...

A slow process, without predetermined outcomes, giving children the opportunity to enter into a dialogue with themselves and their surroundings.

To connect...

It is like completing an electrical circuit: once connected, the light bulb turns on and illuminates everything around it.

And then we see what surrounds us.

In the same way, children connect and come to understand themselves not as isolated beings who, because they do not understand, struggle to cooperate and communicate their needs, ideas and emotions, but as individuals who can develop a relationship of dialogue with themselves and the world, with everything that is “other” and different...

Slow pedagogy
Time for the soul
Children connect and understand themselves
Outdoor learning at Big Bang School