Episode 93: Marion Ooijevaar – Sensory awareness and a deeper connection

‘To care for your surroundings and to realise that you’re part of it, that started when I was young’
- Marion Ooijevaar

Marion is a teacher and environmental educator with a passion for fostering nature connection in others. She does this through a variety of sensory awareness and nature immersion activities and experiences.

Listen to hear more about:

• The ways that Marion’s parents fostered her love of nature in childhood.

• Eco-psychology and nature connection.

• Using all of our senses while paying attention to nature.

• The difference between connecting with nature through photography and art.

• Nature in the Netherlands as well as nature in Marion’s garden.

• The magic of making and using wild ink.

• The importance of ‘play’ in our nature journals.

• Pausing to notice the seasons throughout the year and the Season Sketchers challenge.

• Adding Haiku to a nature journal page.

• The joy of seasonal firsts.
  
  

Find out more about Marion on her website (https://www.connectingwithnature.nl) as well as on Instagram and Facebook.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Season Sketchers Challenge you can visit https://www.angelahennessy.co.uk/seasonsketchers.


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