Episode 86: Corina Brdar – Living Being Mindfulness

Corina is an ecologist and nature journaler from Ontario, Canada. For Corina, the nature journal can be a tool for exploring her garden, connecting with nature through mindfulness, and even a place to process ecological grief. Corina lets nature journaling be about the process, not the product.

Listen to hear more about:

• How Corina found the nature journaling community through the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference.

• Thoughts on nature journaling and how a desire to make perfect art can complicate the process.

• Nature journaling during the Canadian winter.

• How nature journaling helps Corina be a better ecologist.

• The Breeding Bird Atlas and how nature journaling is helping Corina learn all the birds in her area.

• Mindfulness and nature journaling

• Nature journaling in the garden.

• What it means to be nature’s witness.

• Getting to know your ‘bird of the year’.

• How and why Corina’s journals have become loser and more messy over time.

Find more about Corina on her website Living Being Mindfulness and on Instagram @livingbeingmindfulness.

Read Corina’s blog post for International Nature Journaling Week: Nature Journaling When Nature is Wounded.

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