Description
Sunday, November 10, 2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Carolyn Schuyler, Dorothe Bach
We are facing an interconnected environmental and mental health crisis. This session gives educational developers both a personally restorative experience and a model for nature-connected approaches to teaching and center programming. By experimenting with accessible practices, participants will gain an embodied understanding of the researched benefits of using campus green spaces to cultivate belonging, creativity, collaboration, and emotional well-being elements instrumental to student and faculty learning. Through interactive exercises, participants will be prepared to integrate nature connection into educational development programming and to advocate for educational transformation built on shared experiences with the more-than-human world.