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SUMMARY:Self-Care in Nature (Recording)
DESCRIPTION:Self-Care in Nature  \nPracticing self-care in nature is an extra boost for your health. It’s easy and anyone can do it\, including children. In this workshop\, caregivers\, parents and practitioners will learn how to\, where to and why they should be practicing self-care in nature and teaching it to the children in their lives to improve everyone’s overall emotional and mental well-being. \nYou’ll hear from: \n\nNicole Jackson. Nicole is an environmental educator and the founder of N Her Nature LLC\, a life coaching business focused on nature therapy for Black women. She is also a birder\, co-creator of Black Birders Week\, and a Legacy Camp alumna. \nKari Kleven\, MSW\, LICSW. Kari is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who runs Minneapolis Nature-Based Therapy\, a small practice that offers psychotherapy to people of all ages outside in natural settings\, working with nature as a therapeutic partner. Before starting this practice in 2021 she was a therapist and supervisor at Washburn Center for Children for many years.\nSonny LaForm\, LSWAIC\, MSW. Sonny is a Yakima Field Office director with Casey Family Programs (CFP). Sonny is certified (Phase II) in the Neurosequential Model (NM) and has collaborated in the development and implementation of Trauma and Healing Informed Care (THIC) trainings. Sonny has been a staunch advocate of the powerful benefits of connecting to nature and has partnered in the purposefully collaborative efforts between Children & Nature Network and Casey Family Programs.\nRenā Trujillo. Renā identifies as a queer\, multiracial\, detribalized and reconnecting Indigenous human. She graduated from Colorado State University with her Bachelor’s of Arts in Ethnic Studies and a minor in Women’s Studies. Recently\, she has been building knowledge and skills directly related to environmental justice by attending and mentoring Non-violent Direct Action (NVDA) camps and Indigenous Science\, Technology\, Arts\, and Resilience (ISTAR) Camps led by Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous-led organizations.\n\nExpect to leave inspired and with tools that you can start using right away! \nSelf-Care in Nature is part of our Families Together in Nature program\, a series of events and resources to help parents and caregivers get out in nature! Our aim is to remove barriers\, offer inspiration and create community.  \nStay tuned for our next event in June. We will be talking about Family Time Outdoors – barriers and solutions\, benefits and activities including The Vitamin N Challenge. Can’t wait? Join the Families Together in Nature group on The Trailhead\, our free online community. It’s the place to share resources\, ideas\, questions\, insights – and to cheer each other on!
URL:https://www.childrenandnature.org/event/self-care-in-nature/
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SUMMARY:Building - and Rebuilding - a Movement (Recording)
DESCRIPTION:What does building a movement mean and\, once the momentum is there\, how do we evolve and respond to meet changing needs? This conversation brings together Marlow Baines\, Youth Director for Earth Guardians\, and Richard Carlbom\, co-founder and partner of United Strategies\, to share their successes and challenges\, and discuss what it takes to sustain meaningful change. \nUnder Marlow’s direction\, Earth Guardians — an NGO working to empower youth leaders at the intersection of environmental and climate justice — was able to dismantle and rebuild its infrastructure to solidify youth-centered leadership. Through Marlow’s efforts to elevate the voices of her peers and after a long\, coordinated effort of the Earth Guardians Youth Council to engage in anti-racism work\, the organization took a giant leap forward in 2021\, evolving from a U.S. based nonprofit organization to a truly global NGO. As Youth Director\, Marlow helped implement the vision of the Earth Guardians Youth Council and redefine the role of youth leadership within the organization. She currently leads the Choose Action Now campaign\, empowering youth leaders ages 15-30 to take action in their local communities. \nRichard served as the Campaign Manager of Minnesotans United for All Families\, the official ‘Vote No’ campaign that helped Minnesota become the first state in the nation to defeat a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The $13 million effort proved to be the largest grassroots campaign in Minnesota history. After successfully securing the Freedom to Marry in Minnesota\, Richard served as the Director of State Campaigns for the national Freedom to Marry campaign. Overseeing a 34 state public engagement and education strategy\, Richard traveled to 28 states to provide support to local leaders trying to secure marriage equality. Richard brought his first-hand knowledge of research and strategy to the table\, paired with his work to help pioneer long-form conversation-based campaigns that changed the hearts and minds of individuals when it came to their support for marriage equality. \nThis inspiring discussion will be followed by audience Q&A. \nOur Fall Inside-Out Leadership series hosts conversations between people with similar experiences working to address similar problems\, but in different spaces or with different approaches. Our aim is to make these conversations interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and perhaps a bit unexpected\, connecting leaders who might not otherwise be connected to share their points of view and demonstrate commonalities. Visit our events page to learn about other upcoming events!
URL:https://www.childrenandnature.org/event/building-and-rebuilding-a-movement/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Events,Inside Out Leadership Series,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Nature's Power in Healing Trauma (Recording)
DESCRIPTION:How can nature and outdoor access support healing? With today’s youth facing a growing mental health crisis\, this conversation will focus on how nature-based activities and therapies can support children and young people’s well-being and help them recover from trauma. We will hear from Dr. Hanaa Hamdi and Kimiko Russell-Halterman who are both working in different spaces connected to this topic. \nDr. Hamdi has more than two decades of experience in public health administration\, research and community development practice. She is committed to advancing health equity across underserved populations through comprehensive and holistic approaches —including integrating nature everywhere people live\, learn\, pray and play. Dr. Hamdi serves on the Children & Nature Network board of directors. \nKimiko Russell-Halterman is the Environmental Educator for Brown Girl Surf\, who works to build a more diverse\, environmentally reverent\, and joyful women’s\, girl’s\, and gender expansive surf culture by increasing access to surfing\, cultivating community\, amplifying the voices of surfers of color\, and taking care of the earth. She is also currently pursuing graduate studies focusing on equity and justice in environmental & outdoor education. Kimiko attended UCSB\, where she studied Environmental Science and Education\, fell in love with teaching\, learned to surf and spent as much time as possible playing in the sea. \nThis inspiring discussion will be followed by audience Q&A. \nOur Fall Inside-Out Leadership series hosts conversations between people with similar experiences working to address similar problems\, but in different spaces or with different approaches. Our aim is to make these conversations interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and perhaps a bit unexpected\, connecting leaders who might not otherwise be connected to share their points of view and demonstrate commonalities. Visit our events page to learn about other upcoming events!
URL:https://www.childrenandnature.org/event/natures-power-in-healing-trauma/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Events,Inside Out Leadership Series,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning 24-Hour Livestream Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the launch of The Salzburg Statement for Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning with 24 livestream events hosted by colleagues from around the world. The Salzburg Statement– drafted by Global Fellows to influence thinking\, policy\, and approaches –will support a global action agenda to ensure that all children and communities have access to green school grounds and outdoor learning. From Paris to Brazil\, tune in to each social media link below to see some of the work organizations are doing to empower children and youth with knowledge\, skills\, values and attitudes to be resilient and adaptable in an uncertain future while developing a love for the natural world. \nEach livestream will be approximately 15 minutes at the top of each hour. \nClick on each link to visit the social media page they will be going live from: \n\n\n\n\n\nSeptember 18\, 2022\n\n \n\n\n10 pm GMT/ 6 pm ET\nThe Outdoor Learning Store: Facebook Live\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSeptember 19\, 2022\n\n \n\n\n12 am GMT / 8 pm ET (September 18)\nIndia Youth Biodiversity Network: Instagram Live\n\n12 pm GMT / 8 am ET\nLearning in Nature / Bangladesh / Cardiff University: Facebook Live\n\n\n2 am GMT / 10 pm ET (September 18)\nJai Sharma\, Wildlife & Nature Educator: Facebook Live\n1 pm GMT / 9 am ET\nEducational schoolgrounds / Naturskolan Asköviken / Västerås stad: Facebook Live\n\n\n4 am GMT / 12 am ET\nOrganisation De Developpement Durable: Facebook Live\n2 pm GMT / 10 am ET\nPrefeitura Municipal de Jundiaí / Brazil: Instagram Live\n\n\n7 am GMT / 3 am ET\nGerman Commission for UNESCO / ASPnet: Facebook Live\n4 pm GMT / 12 pm ET\nOutdoor People / Outdoor Play and Learning: Facebook Live\n\n\n8 am GMT / 4 am ET\nLearning for Sustainability Scotland: Facebook Live\n6 pm GMT / 2 pm ET\nBarrani – Playscape Pedagogy Consultant: Facebook Live\n\n\n9 am GMT / 5 am ET\nOasis Schoolyards / Paris: Virtual Event (WebEx)\n8 pm GMT / 4 pm ET\nFundacion Patio Vivo: Facebook Live\n\n\n10 am GMT / 6 am ET\nUNESCO Paris: Facebook Live\n9 pm GMT / 5 pm ET\nMovimento dos Quintais Brincantes: Instagram Live\n\n\n11 am GMT/ 7 am ET\nLessons in Grass / TEREZA: Facebook Live\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nThe live events will take place the same day that education leaders will gather in New York City for the UN Transforming Education Summit and the release of the Greening Education Partnership – all supportive and synergistic efforts. \nFor more information\, please visit schoolgroundgreening.org
URL:https://www.childrenandnature.org/event/global-lessons-on-greening-school-grounds-outdoor-learning-24-hour-livestream-event/
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SUMMARY:Connecting Children to Nature and Sustainability and Resilience Initiatives
DESCRIPTION:  \nTowns and cities have an opportunity to reprioritize resources to foster children’s connection to nature connections while meeting sustainability and resilience goals. \nMore than ever\, our towns and cities are at the front line of the climate crisis facing growing risks from extreme heat\, sea level rise\, and flooding from storms and excessive rainfall. In response\, local governments are taking important steps to become more resilient through sustainability measures that lower their emissions as well as through investments in green infrastructure and nature-based solutions to reduce risk\, with increased support from state and federal loans and grants. As towns and cities begin to reprioritize their budgets towards sustainability and resilience\, the projects that result from these investments present invaluable opportunities to foster children-nature connections. Children with regular access to nature gain multiple forms of support for healthy development through active outdoor play and learning to redress the “nature deficit disorder” that has resulted from too much childhood time spent inside. \nCities Connecting Children to Nature initiative (CCCN) and Regional Plan Association (RPA) recently conducted a review of local and state resilience and sustainability plans and interviewed municipal officials and stakeholders throughout the New York metropolitan region to determine effective ways to bridge goals of resilience\, sustainability\, and children-nature connections. \nPlanning\, sustainability\, resilience\, and other municipal professionals in the tri-state area are invited to hear from city leaders who have been integrating children’s nature connection into their sustainability and resilience planning and a discussion of how you can make similar connections in your community. \nNOTE: This event is targeted toward municipal professionals in the tri-state area (New York\, New Jersey and Connecticut).
URL:https://www.childrenandnature.org/event/connecting-children-to-nature-and-sustainability-and-resilience-initiatives/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning: Peru (Recording)
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the global movement for greening school grounds and hear best practices from our Peru case study! \n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nThere is growing momentum worldwide to make school grounds greener as a sensible and thoughtful approach to increase climate resilience and improve health and education outcomes\, especially for those most impacted by systems of inequity and environmental injustices. What are examples of success from around the world and what are the barriers to creating green school grounds at scale? \nWith this in mind\, the Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning project seeks to engage with global leaders and practitioners to build networks of like-minded organizations and individuals to identify scalable strategies and deepen our understanding of how to support the worldwide movement of schoolyard greening. This project will collect information about school greening projects around the world with a strong focus on programs that practice inclusive planning and prioritize equitable access to nature while advancing environmental sustainability. With a growing number of international leaders in the children and nature field\, we believe that documenting the field\, sharing experiences\, research and best practices can help galvanize the green schoolyard movement and support our partners to make a broader case successfully. \nOn September 14th\, we’ll share from our first global case study\, Peru. Hear from Joaquin Leguia and our Global Team as they share experiences and lessons learned during their on site visit. Joaquín Leguía is founder of ANIA\, a Peru-based NGO working to promote active empathy for life and sustainable development through innovative initiatives that connect children to nature and empower them as agents of change. A key initiative of ANIA is to develop and support Tierra de Niños (TiNi)\, or Children’s Lands. TiNis are child-led\, nature-filled spaces where children learn to nurture life and biodiversity\, find restoration\, and enhance well-being for themselves and the natural world. Often found on school grounds\, TiNis can also be implemented at home and in communities\, in urban and rural areas\, and in various ecosystems. \nThis event is part of Children & Nature’s Inside-Out Leadership Series which serves to educate\, connect\, and inspire people at every stage of their career. Visit https://www.childrenandnature.org/events/ to learn about future events.
URL:https://www.childrenandnature.org/event/global-lessons-on-greening-school-grounds-outdoor-learning-peru/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Events,Inside Out Leadership Series
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SUMMARY:Youth Leadership Development Networking Events
DESCRIPTION:Calling young leaders\, ages 18-28! Join peers for a series of networking sessions\, starting June 29 and hosted every other month by the Children & Nature Network through the end of the year. These sessions will be an opportunity for you to network and connect with your peers\, discuss service and community building\, and learn about our Youth Outdoor Equity Leadership Fund micro-grants for young leaders. This is a free event\, but please register below to receive the Zoom link.
URL:https://www.childrenandnature.org/event/youth-leadership-development-networking-events/
LOCATION:Online Event
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