With activities that help us feel Springtime energy -- including songs particularly suited to multigenerational, community-style singing -- participants will draw inspiration from this gathering to design activities for your own household, community, and educational programs.

These seasonal gatherings are highly experiential. In order to create a more conducive environment for deep sharing and interactive participation, this event will not be recorded. Please plan to join us live. 

Practicing diversity, equity, and inclusion, these online gatherings are designed for maximal accessibility. If you need to eat, drink, move/stretch physically, take a break from looking at the digital screen and just listen, have a youngster of your household present with you, or other forms of flexibility that will make live attendance possible, please know those are supported. Reach out to programs@anbe.org if you have any questions.

To prepare for participation you are invited to bring the following: a candle & matches; a journal/notebook/sketchbook & pencils (regular and colored);

a ‘nature ally or allies’ that feel/s right to you personally for this winter celebration - eg. stone, leaf, stick, bone, nut, moss, bark, berries, etc.

• To find your nature ally/allies, you might try a practice of asking ‘do you want to come to the fall gathering? Listen for a yes/no. Then offer a little gratitude to the source of your nature ally - words, a song, a pinch of cornmeal…whatever feels right.  This process can be modeled for those you teach/mentor, too.

A bundle of gifts to inspire your own Springy activities will be emailed to all who register. 

A certificate of completion will be provided upon request to those who attend the complete event live.

While there is no charge to attend, donations for this event help ANBE continue to offer high quality, accessible programs for everyone. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This online gathering is designed for everyone who guides nature-based education and outdoor learning, which may include: teachers, administrators and board members of schools and childcare providers; parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, Big Sisters/Brothers/Siblings; community story, song, and movement/dance leaders; naturalists; environmental educators; outdoor educators; wilderness survival enthusiasts; ancestral skills & nature connection mentors; permaculturists, and more!

MEET YOUR GUIDES

Honey Sweet Harmony is an interspecies creativity-catalyzing mentorship constellation. McCadden holds a MA/ABD in cultural anthropology of theatre from the University of Chicago, and BA with honors in Comparative Literature from Hamilton College, as well as mentoring from indigenous elders of Turtle Island. Ki collaborates with many helpers such as animals, plants, trees, and stones! Together kin* are committed to remembering regenerative cultural patterns, and have decades of experience with all ages from toddlers to seniors. Deep nature connection mentors and ancestral skills facilitators, kin specialize in stories, music, and movement, eco-connective healing arts, ceremony facilitation, and grief / peace tending. For over 25 years kin have taught experiential enrichment programs in a diverse range of public and private schools, camps, community centers, spiritual-based and nature-based organizations. Kin have facilitated for the Association for Nature Based Educators (ANBE) webinars and in-person workshops, Village Talk (a weekly phone conference for mentors committed to deep nature connection), Community Song Circles and Story Circles, Ancestor Suppers, solar and lunar phase celebrational gatherings, and many more forms of multigenerational community events inspired by nature’s rhythms. Kin have served as helpers at indigenous peace treaty renewals and peace tree plantings. Kin also offer private mentoring and eco-healing sessions for individuals, families, and organizations. You'll find seasonal Song Groves and activity ideas that kin have cultivated for the ANBE in our blog archives.

(*these nature-kinship pronouns, ki/singular like s/he, kin/plural like they/them, come from Robin Wall Kimmerer)

Cool winds encourage the first leaves ready to drift down to earth, creature teachers start to gather in their tasty harvests to last through the cold season...

Celebrating the cycles of nature helps us synchronize ourselves with our nature neighborhoods. Join eco-connection mentors Honey Sweet Harmony to honor the coming of Autumn! Participants will be guided through activities that help us feel Autumn's energy - including songs particularly suited to multigenerational, community-style singing. You can then draw inspiration from your participation in this gathering to design activities for your own household, community, and educational programs.

These seasonal gatherings are highly experiential. With a focus on interactions among attendees, we will not be recording.  

Practicing diversity, equity, and inclusion, these online gatherings are designed for maximal accessibility. If you need to eat, drink, move/stretch physically, take a break from looking at the digital screen and just listen, have a youngster of your household present with you, or other forms of flexibility that will make live attendance possible, please know those are supported. Reach out to programs@anbe.org if you have any questions.

A bundle of gifts to inspire your own Autumnal activity designs will be emailed to all who register. 

A certificate of completion will be provided upon request to those who attend the complete event live.

While there is no charge to attend, donations for this event help ANBE continue to offer high quality, accessible programs for everyone.