Practical tools that help equine professionals see clearly and teach with confidence.
Why Nature Journaling?
Nature Journaling is a tool for interaction with the environment through creative process and sensory experience. In nature journals visual information (drawings) and data (words and numbers) are used together to develop observational, questioning and documentation skills.
Thoughtful observation leads to curiosity, and curiosity, in turn, grows into creativity. By asking questions and seeking answers in a visual form we deepen our level of awareness. And by deepening our inquiry through the use of data we develop our visual thinking skill set.
Nature Journaling provides a wide variety of tools that will help improve and broaden our visual art skill set in a fun and engaging way. Journaling can become a fun family activity, done as a group or as personal practice. No matter where you are, or how you do it, Nature Journaling will reconnect you with the ancient human practice of using visual language to record your observations and share them with others around you.
Useful links
2010 - present
Skills and Knowledge Fostered by Nature Journaling
2010 - present
from Keeping a Nature Journal
by Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth
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Scientific and aesthetic observation
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Creative and technical writing
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Layout and presentation of ideas and observations
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Perception and analysis
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Questioning, inventiveness, synthesis
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Reflection, silence
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Meditation, focus, personal healing
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Greater appreciation of nature and place
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Shared family experience
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Finding your own voice, learning to open yourself to new experiences
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Self-confidence and the ability to express yourself