🎙 INTERVIEW: Writing with Wonder: The Power of Nature Journaling with John Muir Laws
​** This is a LIVE interview with John Muir Laws about the craft of writing and reality of building a writing career. Attendees will be sent a recording after the interview. **
​What if the secret to unlocking your creative potential lies in the natural world?Â
​John (Jack) Muir Laws is the 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. He also hosts Wonderland—a free, private, creative, and joyful global nature journaling community.
​Join us for a special interview with naturalist and nature journaling expert John Muir Laws as we explore how writers can deepen their connection to the world through the practice of nature journaling to foster curiosity, wonder, and creativity. We’ll discuss how to embrace the power of noticing, reawaken curiosity, and discover new ways to fuel our writing with the beauty of the natural world.
​We’ll also explore:
​How nature journaling cultivates attention and observation
​Techniques for capturing details in the natural world that can enrich your writing
​The link between nature journaling and mindfulness—how it enhances creative thinking
​Ways nature journaling can help you slow down and reconnect with your writing practice
​John’s personal journey with nature journaling and its impact on his work as a naturalist
​"Keeping a nature journal is a learnable skill that can change our lives forever, opening doors to mindful attention, curiosity, wonder, beauty, connection, peace, and joy." –John Muir Laws
​About John Muir LawsÂ
​John (Jack) Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. Jack is a scientist, educator, and author, who helps people forge a deeper and more personal connection with nature through keeping illustrated nature journals and understanding science. His work intersects science, art, and mindfulness. Trained as a wildlife biologist and an associate of the California Academy of Sciences, he observes the world with rigorous attention. He looks for mysteries, plays with ideas, and seeks connections in all he sees. Attention, observation, curiosity, and creative thinking are not gifts, but skills that grow with training and deliberate practice. As an educator and author, Jack teaches techniques and supports routines that develop these skills to make them a part of everyday life.
​He is the author and illustrator of several books including The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling (also available in Spanish), The Laws Sketchbook, The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds, Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide, Sierra Wildflowers: A Hiker’s Guide, and The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada. He is co-author with Emilie Lygren of How to Teach Nature Journaling. Learn more about John Muir Laws here.
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