Introducing girls and women to science begins with encouraging them to be themselves!
My vision as a curiosity-led facilitator, runner, and naturalist guide is to encourage women to sense their emotive, tender and fierce experiences are not trivial or superfluous. To the contrary, conscious girls and women will feel rooted as perfectly imperfect bodies who move with the spinning planets. I encourage people to bring their sadness, shame, pain, confusion, joy, giddiness, fears, anxieties, and doubts to science.
Raised as a free range girl my heart has a firm conviction that physical movement brings joy, connects communicates, and alleviates anxieties held in the body. Our sense of aliveness as humans matters. It may be unorthodox to read, but our vital signs, our pulses, breathing, hiccups, knee pains, confusion, feelings are co-operating. I really love elevating my heart rate running, walking, skipping, and laughing – joy comes through me when I feel my neck pulsing and hear birds flying to the tree branches. We are alive!
Nature’s Guide to Self-Compassion is dedicated to promoting science and self-compassion for girls. Why? Nature inspires our human insights, ideas, learning and relationships. Ants to the planets spark a sense of wonder and curiosity in people, and this is a co-creative platform where people can contribute to science and exploration.
Field Journaling Moul Falls Trail PC: Corinne Gardner
Show up and be curious about yourself and about the seemingly disparate walks of life!
Sharing hands-on experiences with students across ages inspires people to know we are all young in the scheme of the Universe. Earth alone is 3.8Billion Years Old!! Anyone who has turned 103 years old is not too old to contribute, to feel alive, and to matter!
If you are curious, feel a sense of uncertainty, and you are human, you are welcome to explore and contribute on Earth! My aim is to connect people directly outdoors with mentors from diverse disciplines who will encourage each other to stargaze and naval gaze – together, let’s be open to learning about each others’ life stories and the cosmos.
Corinne Gardner 