Reimagining the Outdoors: Term 1 2025 - 4 February 2025

COST: $165+booking fee & gst for the series

TIME: 10:30am – 11:30am AEST

DATES: Tuesdays: 4th February 2025, 4th March 2025, 1st April 2025

Outdoor environments can often feel overwhelming and be reduced to a place for physical activity, but what if our spaces offered more—wonder, curiosity, joy, resilience, discovery, and awe? What if these spaces weren’t just secondary to indoor learning, but were themselves rich with opportunities for growth and exploration?

This series invites teams to deepen their connection with the outdoors, exploring its potential to enhance pedagogy and inspire learning through the natural opportunities within our grasp every day. Grounded in place we encourage participants to explore the relationships between people, the land, and the natural world, as well as how these elements influence and shape local communities, ecosystems, and identities.

Caitlin brings her extensive experience as an outdoor educator and a genuine passion for the natural world, using it as a foundation for innovative curriculum design. Plenty of inspiration, case studies and a rekindling of your love for the outdoors in this short course with Caitlin!

This conversation series includes 3 sessions:

1. Connecting deeply with the value of the outdoors

   What does it mean to be actively involved outdoors and what benefits does the outdoors offer?
   

2. Designing the outdoor environment in ways that value its natural opportunities

   Think BIG and Think SMALL – a practical framework for design, with a focus on connecting with the nature world, open ended materials and invitations for investigation
   

3. Nature and Sustainability

   Supporting courageous play, a sensitivity to sustainability and the development of an ecological identity

   
   
   
   

'Every child lives someplace. And that someplace begins to matter when we invite children to know where they are and to participate in the unfolding life of that place — they come to know the changes in the light and the feel of the air, and participate in a community of people who speak of such things.'

Ann Pelo

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Please make sure to include your postal address when registering, so that we can send you the series booklet.