Build healthy dopamine responses and intentional attention skills.
In this exclusive two-part class for Scholé Sisters, John Muir Laws —artist, author, and nature enthusiast—invites you to embrace the practice of nature notebooks for every age.
Sistership Sophie members get access to this training included!
professional development for homeschool moms
Nature notebooks are more than drawings.
A nature journal is a lens that focuses our attention and crystalizes our observations, thoughts, and experiences. It is not just for children or elementary science, but a useful practice for each stage and age.
Observe objective reality
Organize collected details and thoughts
Form thoughtful questions
Make unexpected connections
Professional development for homeschool moms.
early bird price! $18.99
NATURE NOTEBOOKS FOR EVERY AGE
taught by John Muir Laws
LIVE May 5 & 12 @ 12:30pm Pacific
Recover a traditional hobby of the leisured class
Connect thoughtful observation, deep attention, and fine motor skills – mind & body
Infuse your homeschool with reality-based observation
Session 1: Nature notebooks with children May 5 @ 12:30pm Pacific
. Learn how the methods of a field naturalist will help you notice more, remember what you discovered, and be actively curious. A nature journal is a lens that focuses our attention and crystalizes our observations, thoughts, and experiences. The system is creative, rigorous, and playful, easy to begin and learn, and will grow and mature over a lifetime.
Session 2: Nature notebooks for teens & adults May 12 @ 12:30pm Pacific
Nature Journaling will enrich your experiences and develop observation, curiosity, gratitude, reverence, memory, and the skills of a naturalist. It helps you discover, think, remember, and integrate new information with your existing knowledge. Train your mind, and the world will offer you its secrets of wonder and beauty.
Learn from nature in a posture of leisure
through deliberate attention and curiosity, we forge a deeper connection with CREATION
John Muir Laws is a naturalist, artist, and educator who has dedicated his work to connecting people to nature through art and science. From an early age, his parents instilled in him a deep love and respect for nature. As a scientist and artist, Laws has developed interdisciplinary programs that train students to observe with rigor and joy and refine techniques to become intentionally curious. He is the co-founder and president of the Wild Wonder Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging nature connection and conservation through attention, curiosity, art, science, and community.
Laws has written and illustrated several books including How to Teach Nature Journaling (2020), The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling (2016), The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012), Sierra Birds: a Hiker’s Guide (2004), The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada (2007), and The Laws Pocket Guide Set to the San Francisco Bay Area (2009). He regularly contributes to Bay Nature magazine with his “Naturalists Notebook” column.
John Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement.
Keeping an illustrated, observational journal is a centuries-old method that has been reenvisioned and refined through the lens of our understanding of neuroscience, learning, and deliberate practice.
JOHN MUIR LAWS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The events will be live inside the Sistership platform and the replays also available as a course afterward.
When you register for the Nature Notebook for Every Age Spring Training, you get
TWO online workshops with John Muir Laws
TWO recorded Q&A sessions that followed the workshops.
Resource list of sites and books mentioned in the sessions.
This workshop is for homeschool moms who want more out of their school day than just checking boxes and getting it done.
It is for moms who want to learn and grow themselves while they are helping their children learn and grow.
It is for women who want to engage their hearts, minds, and actions in the pursuit of wisdom and truth.
We hope that’s you.
We offer a 30-day, no-questions-asked refund policy.
Discover the intersection between science, art, and attentive contemplation.
illustration and scientific note-taking are means to greater observation, memory, and curiosity.
