
Nature connection or nature contact
Is your practice nature connection or nature contact? And does it matter?
Forest School practitioner & trainer Louise Ambrose considers.
From The Outdoor Practitioner magazine, issue 3: Forest School Focus.
Articles, blogs & news items, from the UK & internationally, on the importance of, and barriers to, connecting with nature, for children & adults.
To start, 2 articles from Muddy Faces that first appeared in our Outdoor Practitioner magazine.
Arranged in chronological order, most recent at the top
Nature connection or nature contact
Is your practice nature connection or nature contact? And does it matter?
Forest School practitioner & trainer Louise Ambrose considers.
From The Outdoor Practitioner magazine, issue 3: Forest School Focus.
Forest School practitioner & trainer Louise Ambrose reflects on thankfulness & nature connection and offers 5 tips for sharing gratitude practices with children. From the Outdoor Practitioner magazine issue 4: Health & Wellbeing Focus.
The Healing Power of Gratitude
Research: nature connection / deficit
A comprehensive reference section of reports & research into Nature Deficit Disorder and the importance of nature connection for children and young people. Includes opinion pieces and reflections from outdoor practitioners & nature connection experts.
Arranged, as much as possible, in chronological order, most recent at the top.
Read More about Research: nature connection / deficitResearch: impact of nature
Evidence for the impact on & benefits to children of spending time in and engaging with nature.
Research documents are, as much as possible, arranged in chronological order, most recent at the top
Read More about Research: impact of natureNature Connection videos & podcasts
Read More about Nature Connection videos & podcasts