Nature Connection is a nourishing path to well-being for children and adults. Studies show that spending time in nature can improve mood, lower anxiety, strengthen resiliency and promote self-care.
This workshop provides you with Wild Wonder: A Family Guide to Creative Nature Connection. The guide contains monthly activities that are simple, meaningful, creative and nature-based. This workshop is for parents to attend. Participants will leave with materials that they can share with their children on their own time.
The intentions of the Wild Wonder guide are to
Grow together as a family.
Promote the well-being of individuals as well as the family as a whole.
Strengthen your family’s nature connection and sense of belonging to our living earth.
Explore the seasons in your own home place.
Inspire earth stewardship.
Spark creativity.
The guide’s flexibility allows you to
Start the activities any time.
Customize the activities to suit your unique home life and family interests.
Explore activities with your children, grandchildren, friends, students or even on your own.
During this workshop, you will have opportunities to slow down and to tune into your own body’s wisdom as a source of inspiration and guidance.
Workshops are for ages 18+ only and disability access is not provided.
Taira Restar is co-founder of In Place, nonprofit for place-centered nature education. For over 35 years, Taira has worked with children, families and adults in a wide variety of settings including grade schools, high schools, universities and museums as well as forests, beaches and city parks. After completing her first Tamalpa Institute training in 1984, Taira embraced Halprin Life/Art Process® and integrated it into every aspect of her life. In 2000, she began working closely with Anna Halprin, which continued steadily until 2018. Taira is a mother and grandmother, who lives in the forest on the shores of Tomales Bay, unceded Tomalko lands, where she is in love with the place herself.
Tamalpa does not record nor permit the recording of any classes or workshops due to the sensitive and sometimes vulnerable nature of the work, and to protect student privacy.
