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Nature, Creativity and Health: an evening with Richard Louv
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Author Richard Louv will speak on September 25th at 7:30 pm at Foothill
College to inspire action in bringing nature into our everyday lives as
families, neighborhoods, and communities.
Prior to the talk, partners in the Children in Nature Collaborative will host a festive gathering at 6:30 pm to celebrate action currently taking place and our strategic plan. Plan to arrive early to visit tables and talk to partners while enjoying music and food.
Richard Louv's book, Last Child in the Woods, has inspired a local grassroots movement in the Bay Area that is gaining momentum to create healthier and happier children through restoring nature and play to families, neighborhoods, and communities.
“The most important thing in the world to parents is their child's well-being, and now we have emerging research that links children's mental, physical, and spiritual health directly to their association with nature. We can look at it this way: Time in nature is not a luxury; it is essential to our children's health.”
-Richard Louv
Richard Louv is a futurist and journalist focused on family, nature, and community. His most recent book, Last Child in the Woods, has stimulated an international conversation and inspired a national movement with fifty regional initiatives across the country—including the Children in Nature Collaborative in the Bay Area—to reconnect children with nature. Richard Louv is chairman of the Children & Nature Network www.childrenandnature.org.
This event is open to all members of the community. Inquire about special individual and group rates. Our on-line tickets are processed through Waldorf School of the Peninsula, one of our sponsors.
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The event with Richard Louv is part of a four-week 'Let's Play Outside' campaign with play days and parent presentations starting September 15th to promote unstructured play and time in nature. The play days will take place in neighborhoods, parks and natural areas in the Bay Area.
Each play day offers different possibilities: building dens and forts, playing with water and mud, improvising games, joing cooperative family play, playing in creeks, exploring wilderness areas, or playfully creating with natural treasures on a beach.
To host a play play day, register at http://bit.ly/playdayentry For more information contact Avery Cleary via email at averycleary@gmail.com
Complete List of Bay Area Play Days: http://bit.ly/getoutside
Prior to the talk, partners in the Children in Nature Collaborative will host a festive gathering at 6:30 pm to celebrate action currently taking place and our strategic plan. Plan to arrive early to visit tables and talk to partners while enjoying music and food.
Richard Louv's book, Last Child in the Woods, has inspired a local grassroots movement in the Bay Area that is gaining momentum to create healthier and happier children through restoring nature and play to families, neighborhoods, and communities.
“The most important thing in the world to parents is their child's well-being, and now we have emerging research that links children's mental, physical, and spiritual health directly to their association with nature. We can look at it this way: Time in nature is not a luxury; it is essential to our children's health.”
-Richard Louv
Richard Louv is a futurist and journalist focused on family, nature, and community. His most recent book, Last Child in the Woods, has stimulated an international conversation and inspired a national movement with fifty regional initiatives across the country—including the Children in Nature Collaborative in the Bay Area—to reconnect children with nature. Richard Louv is chairman of the Children & Nature Network www.childrenandnature.org.
This event is open to all members of the community. Inquire about special individual and group rates. Our on-line tickets are processed through Waldorf School of the Peninsula, one of our sponsors.
* * * * * *
The event with Richard Louv is part of a four-week 'Let's Play Outside' campaign with play days and parent presentations starting September 15th to promote unstructured play and time in nature. The play days will take place in neighborhoods, parks and natural areas in the Bay Area.
Each play day offers different possibilities: building dens and forts, playing with water and mud, improvising games, joing cooperative family play, playing in creeks, exploring wilderness areas, or playfully creating with natural treasures on a beach.
To host a play play day, register at http://bit.ly/playdayentry For more information contact Avery Cleary via email at averycleary@gmail.com
Complete List of Bay Area Play Days: http://bit.ly/getoutside