Only One

By the end of this year, I will have been a part of teaching over one thousand Hawai'i students about our native birds and how to draw them. However, I…

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Growth Mindset

The biggest impediment to people starting (or continuing) to nature journal is a perceived lack of ability. This is especially evident to new learners when their teacher or the examples…

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Do It Yourself

The most frequent question I get asked as a nature journaling teacher is, "How do I convince a kid to nature journal if they don't want to?" The first, and…

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Types of Attention

Nature Journaling begins with the observation of nature -- paying attention to the world around us. Then we document those observations in different ways in our journals with words, pictures,…

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