Episode 12: John Muir Laws - Sustained, compassionate attention
‘When you pay sustained, compassionate attention it completely changes your relationship with the other.’
- John Muir Laws
John Muir Laws (aka Jack) is an artist, naturalist and nature journaling mentor. He has been journaling for decades, has written many books on nature journaling and is working tirelessly to bring nature into the minds and hearts of people across the world. Jack talks about how paying sustained, compassionate attention to nature, and to the people in our lives, profoundly changes the way we relate to each other and interact in the world.
Listen to hear more about:
The power of sustained compassionate attention to connect you to others and to the world around you.
The importance of mentors.
How your nature journal can be used as a tool for looking inward.
How wonder and beauty represent the head and the heart of nature journaling for Jack.
How nature journaling with a posture of gratitude can bring positive changes into your life.
How the connection and community, found through nature journaling, can act as the antidote to separation and isolation of the modern world.
How falling in love with the nature through journaling will change the way you interact with the world.
Jack’s website: www.johnmuirlaws.com.
Podcast Episode with Tania Marian from Talaterra describing Jack's history and how he came to nature journaling: John Muir Laws - Community Building Through Nature Journaling.
Video from the educators forum: Gratitude, Nature, Depression, Healing, and Growth.
Link to the book ‘How to Teach Nature Journaling’ by John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren: How to Teach Nature Journaling.
Nature Journal Club Facebook group: The Nature Journal Club.
Thanks for listening!