Nature Symposium ~ The Elements of Nature
Inspiring Children’s Creativity and Wonder
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Gain insights into nature play and how to bring this to children in your everyday encounters.
Learn how to invite and inspire children to connect authentically to nature.
Discover new perspectives, ideas, practices, materials, and resources that you can implement right away in your daily encounters in-person and virtually with children in your learning spaces.
Susan Wright
The Nature Aesthetic: Nurturing Children's Relationships To The Beauty Of Nature
Consider The Nurtured Inspirations Approach to nourishing children’s relationships and connections with the beauty of nature.
Discover encounters, proposals, and opportunities to invite children to a place of wonder, curiosity, discovery, and reflection about their relationships alongside nature and how their ways of being impact the natural world.
Reflect upon your own practice within your own unique context and begin to consider new elements, perspectives, and layers to bring to your own encounters in nature alongside children.
Michelle van Heugten
Collaborations With Nature: Researching Children’s Wonders
Engage children in creative work based on their natural curiosity of the outdoor environment.
Build children’s connections to the natural world through inquiry.
Extend children’s wonders through their research of the world around them.
Sophie Anne Edwards
Building ‘Relational Muscle’ Through Collaborative, Ecological Research With Children
Explore what Sophie calls ‘relational muscle’ in our human and more-than-human relationships, and consider how we can engender community building in our work with children.
Consider collaborative, process-based ecological learning and research through examples from Sophie’s experiences with children.
Reflect upon the important questions -- the change-making -- we want to move forward in our work with children.
Roberta Pucci
Hundred Languages To Dialogue With Nature
Achieve some creative tools to experience first-hand the exploration of nature through the “hundred languages” of Malaguzzi’s thinking.
Discover the role of relationship in every learning process and the importance to know the “grammar of matter”, in order to enter into a respectful relationship with materials.
Become more aware of connections between different fields of learning, as well as between beauty and learning.
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A Welcome Message from Susan Wright
Your thoughts on inspiring children’s creativity and wonder...
Your Wonderings: A Preface to Our Encounters As Pedagogical Thinkers
Susan Wright
The Nature Aesthetic: Nurturing Children's Relationships and Connections Through Nature
Your Reflections
Discussion Forum
Join the Nurtured Inspirations Facebook group...
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Susan Wright Introducing Michelle van Heugten
Collaborations with Nature: Researching Children’s Wonders
Your Reflections
Discussion Forum
Connect with Michelle
Additional Resources
Susan Wright Introducing Sophie Anne Edwards
From COVID to Community Building ‘Relational Muscle’ Through Collaborative, Ecological Research with Children
Your Reflections
Discussion Forum
Subscribe to Sophie Anne's Blog
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Susan Wright Introducing Roberta Pucci
Hundred Languages to Dialogue with Nature
Your Reflections
Discussion Forum
Visit the Roberta Pucci Lab
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Closing Remarks from Susan Wright
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