Join us for a rich discussion to inspire your nature journaling and own poetry practice. Class session from 4 Jan. 2024. Join John Muir Laws and Bradley Hoge as we examine his process for creating rich poems that incorporate nature, science, and personal experiences. Bradley Earle Hoge’s 2nd book of poetry: N = R* fp Read More
Category: Nature Journals
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Getting Started with Nature Journaling with John Muir Laws & Billie Jo Reid
Join Billie Jo Reid and me as we explore the foundations of Nature Journaling and share our experiences from our recent Nature Journaling adventure in the Galapagos Islands. Read More
NJEF: Snorkel Journaling (Apr. 30, 2025)
John Muir Laws shares his recent underwater adventures in the Sea of Cortez with the Nature Journal Educators Forum. Kate Righter shares her experiences snorkeling in Hawai’i and important takeaways to keep your participants safe. (Class recording from 30 Apr. 2025) June 9th is Coral Triangle Day! Ask your friends who snorkel about the importance Read More
Underwater Nature Journaling! (Apr. 10, 2025)
Join Mandy Teernstra and John Muir Laws as we explore how to nature journal underwater, with simple and easily accessible equipment! This will change the way you snorkel forever. (Class recording 10 April 2025) Mandy Teernstra lives in the Netherlands. She has been diving for more than 30 years, including in caves and wrecks. She Read More
Nature Journaling: How to Reclaim Your Attention & Sense of Place with John Muir Laws
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” —Mary Oliver Join me and the Aldo Leopold Foundation for an exciting discussion on how to start your own nature journal, phenology, and the neuroscience behind journaling—plus, live demonstrations! For or author and naturalist John Muir Laws, attention is love. When constant headlines, advertisements, Read More
10-Minuite Naturescapes
Naturalist David Lukas has created a series of 10-minute videos, holding a camera on a natural phenomenon so that nature journalists can observe, sketch, and journal. These videos give you the time to make careful observations. Unlike a still photograph, you can see the movement of wind and hear the natural soundscape around you. Practice Read More
NJEF: Journal Resources Page Insert (Apr. 30, 2021)
A class from the past! On 30 April 2021, John Muir Laws asked the Nature Journal Educators Forum for feedback on the resources inserts that later went into his blank sketchbooks, which hundreds of nature journalers now use and enjoy. You can find John Muir Laws’s blank sketchbooks for sale here: https://johnmuirlaws.com/product/the-laws-sketchbook-for-nature-journaling/ Read More
Choose to be Curious Podcast: Ep. #307: Curiosity & Nature Journaling
“Slow down to the speed of wonder.” ~ John Muir Laws Join Lynn Borton and me in this episode of the “Choose to be Curious” Podcast. This is an episode about nature journaling, but Jack would be the first to say: it isn’t about the journal, it’s about the journey. John has developed interdisciplinary programs Read More
Nature Journaling for Families
Learn to keep a nature journal with your family in this workshop with the Children in Nature Network! Read More
NJEF: Make Your Own Field Guide (Nov. 1, 2023)
The Nature Journal Educator’s Forum welcomes guests Rachael Robbins and two of her students as we learn about a special project they did with their class: creating a local ecosystem field guide! Rachael Robbins is a fifth grade teacher at Bay View Elementary in Burlington, Washington. She uses nature journaling with her students to connect Read More