by Max Hope | Apr 28, 2025 | Blog
Tales of the City, a 10-book series about life in San Francisco from the 1970s onwards are my all-time favourite books. The characters created by Armistead Maupin have accompanied me through all of my adult life. Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver. Mary Ann Singleton. Brian...
by Max Hope | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog
Preface From my vantage point, in a chair rather precariously balanced at the top of a ladder, my eyes survey the landscape. There is water, so much water, more than I have ever seen here before. The pools at the bottom of the hill are expanding, and I see birds, and...
by Max Hope | Apr 15, 2025 | Blog
Max speaks to Marina Robb as part of the Wild Minds Podcast. Episode 11: Rewilding Education...
by Max Hope | Apr 15, 2025 | Blog
She said that sometimes there are no rules. And for some reason that was reassuring. We went down to the shore. On an ordinary, extraordinary day. And filled our pockets with lichen and seeds. Molly flew by in a tiny plane Checking we weren’t taking her lover’s...
by Max Hope | Apr 15, 2025 | Blog
Sophie Christophy and Max Hope love being outdoors and connecting with wild places but are curious about whether their experiences of ‘the wild’ and ‘nature’ are the same. Sophie is a feminist and children’s rights activist, an unschooling parent and Co-Founder of The...
by Max Hope | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog
Max Hope and Sophie Christophy share an aspiration to radically change the education system, but the journeys that brought them together have been completely different. Max started out as a youth worker and spent a decade as a university academic, researcher and...
