where the wild things grow
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GET TO KNOW CHELSEA VAIL
Founder
Chelsea Vail
Epoch founder and event host, Chelsea Vail, holds a BS in Child Development, MA Professional Counseling, is a Certified Child Life Specialist and EC-4 educator. After finishing her graduate degree in Professional Counseling, Chelsea focused on Play Therapy for her child clients and began offering workshops for parents and teachers focusing on positive discipline.
She founded a Waldorf-inspired forest school in Bozeman, Montana called Epoch (active 2021-2024) and hopes to continue leading children and families in their learning journey by teaching the Waldorf methods in-person and online, providing content for homeschooling and "outschooling" families to draw from and providing opportunities for play-based learning in her community.
Disclaimer: Epoch is not "traditional" Waldorf education...it is Waldorf-y!