This practical guide provides supportive notes and prompts to help create the best experience for children using My Nature Notebook. It is an invaluable companion to My Nature Notebook and is suitable for teachers, learning support staff, outdoor leaders, youth workers, school counsellors, parents and guardians.
This practical guide provides supportive notes and prompts to help create the best experience for children using My Nature Notebook. It can be used to support one child or a group of children and contains comprehensive guidance to help the lead adult feel confident in their delivery.
Every page of My Nature Notebook has a corresponding page in this guide for the lead adult to refer to when delivering material, each of which features:
- A page rationale
- A visual of the corresponding page in the child’s nature notebook
- Materials needed and safety considerations
- How to set the scene
- Guidance on the delivery and closure
- Facilitator’s top tips
- Possible extension activities ideas.
This book is an invaluable companion to My Nature Notebook and is suitable for teachers, learning support staff, outdoor leaders, youth workers, school counsellors, and parents and guardians.
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In this unique resource, Claire offers a clear and compassionate framework that encourages children and young people, alongside their parents and carers, to explore emotions, tune into their senses, and communicate openly. Through this process, feelings are gently channelled into forming a deep and lasting connection with the natural world. This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone seeking effective and accessible ways to help young people understand their place in the world. Simple yet insightful, it provides a powerful approach to nurturing a meaningful relationship with nature, a timely and hopeful remedy for a generation that increasingly feels anxious and disconnected from it. - Martin Foakes, Chair of Outdoor Forum for South East Asia Schools and Independent Outdoor Education Consultant
Benefits of Children Spending Time in Nature
My Nature Notebook Series
How to Use This Book
Safety First
My Nature Notebook
Welcome
Noticing Nature Poem
Keeping Safe
The Wonderful World of Invitations
Forest Bathing
Waking Up Your Senses
Who or What Is Moving?
Secret Orchestra
Heart Listening
Wonderful Watchers
Choosing Your Sit Spot
At Your Sit Spot
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Nature Mandala
Leafing Around
Flower Breath
My Mind FeelsMy Body Feels
Shadow Play
Mini Marvels
Meet Your Support Teams
Waking Up Your Support Teams
I Spy With My Nature Eye
Cloud Gazing
Barking Up the Right Tree
Nature Palette
Trees Are the Giant Helpers of the Earth
Breathing With the Forest
Tree Talk
Join the Tree Talk
My Nature Chatterbox
(Blank Page)
Texture Trail
Magical Nature Perfume
Raindrop Magic
Stone Stacking
Mindful Eating in Nature
Mindful Walking
A Letter to Me
Thank You, Nature
Awards Ceremony
Claire Holmes is a school counsellor whose approach is trauma-informed and strength-based. Through her work, she empowers others to access their inner wisdom and innate capacity for healing. As a mindfulness teacher, she weaves meditation into her work alongside expressive therapies and solution-focused interventions. Claire delights in spending time in the great outdoors, running, hiking, and cycling. She is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide and is passionate about children spending meaningful time in nature and deepening their understanding of the wellbeing benefits it provides.
Claire is the author of the Moving On series, the Staying Well series, and the My Residential School Trip series, and is delighted to add the My Nature Notebook books to her collection.
