9-week Online Training Course with the world’s most popular & influential Nature Educator Joseph Bharat Cornell
“No one is more effective than Joseph Cornell in connecting people of all ages with the profound peace, joy, and exhilaration available to us through direct experience in nature.”
—Cheryl Charles, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO Emerita, Children and Nature Network
Do you want to learn a step-by-step approach to guiding others in joy-filled nature experiences while deepening your personal connection with nature? If the answer is yes, this 9-week course is for you.
Created by world-renowned author and naturalist, Joseph Bharat Cornell, this 9-week experiential course is thoughtfully designed to enhance your experience of the natural world while equipping you with practical activities, skills, and inspiration needed to guide others into their own memorable nature experience.
This course is ideal for outdoor educators, parks and recreation leaders, teachers, therapists, health coaches, parents, home-school educators, corporate training programs, youth programs, rehabilitation programs, yoga and meditation teachers, and community outreach for children and adults alike.
The games and methods featured in the course are from Cornell’s award-winning Sharing Nature book series. His books have been translated into twenty-nine languages and have been used effectively by millions of parents, educators, and outdoor leaders. Cornell is one of the most highly regarded nature educators in the world today. He is the honorary president of the Sharing Nature Association of Japan, which has trained 40,000 leaders. Since 1979, close to a million people from around the world have benefited from Sharing Nature programs!
Experience Nature Anywhere!
You can take the course wherever you are—in the comfort of your home or the great outdoors. Can’t go outside? No problem! You can practice many of the activities looking out a window or stepping outside your door.
You will receive the first two units immediately, with subsequent units being unlocked every 7 days.
At the end of the course, you’ll receive a Sharing Nature Certificate of Completion.
What You’ll Receive
Instructional Videos by Joseph Bharat Cornell: In more than two dozen instructional videos Joseph shares insights, philosophy, and techniques to help you enhance your rapport with nature. Inspired by his desire to help others develop an inner understanding of nature, Cornell’s guidance draws on his experience leading nature activities in more than forty countries.
Comprehensive Curriculum: Drawing on Joseph Cornell’s many published books including including Sharing Nature, The Sky and Earth Touched Me, Listening to Nature, Flow Learning, and Deep Nature Play, the course offers complete instructions for more than thirty Sharing Nature activities.
Guided Audio Nature Activities: Bring the natural world to life. Put in your earphones and press play. The activities provide a wide range of in-nature experiences geared to individuals as well as to groups.
Core Principles and Stories: Each unit features a captivating story to illustrate the core principles that underly Sharing Nature.
Create Your Own Nature Session: You will learn how to create your own personalized Flow Learning nature awareness session and how to tailor your session for students of different ages and different numbers of participations, from small family gatherings to larger education groups. There is a special joy in sharing nature with friends and loved ones!
Deeper Principles and Practices: Sharing Nature’s roots are in ancient wisdom traditions. The universal principles embedded in these traditions interweave our methods and are there to be experienced by participants—a joyful, absorption and resonance with the natural world.
Quizzes and Points to Remember: Ground and strengthen your understanding of the Sharing Nature philosophy and techniques.
“Joseph Cornell is one of the true founding fathers of Forest Therapy practice. It was Joseph who—decades ago—recognized and learned to utilize the positive health potential forests and natural environments have on human beings.”
Drs. Qing Li, Won Sop Shin, Andreas Michalsen, and Dieter Kotte Editors, International Handbook of Forest Therapy
Course Curriculum
Unit 1—Our Unique Approach to Nature Education
Unit 2—Flow Learning: Guiding Others to Meaningful and Profound Learning Experiences
Unit 3—Awaken Enthusiasm: How to Make Learning Experiential, Instructive, and Fun!
Unit 4—Focus Attention: How to Help People Become More Attentive, Less Distracted
Unit 5—Offer Direct Experience: How to Foster Deeper Learning and Enduring Love for the Natural World
Unit 6—Share Inspiration: How to Create Clarity and a Sense of Completion with Your Nature Sessions
Unit 7—Putting it All Together: Creating Your Nature Session
Unit 8—Creating Positive Change in Yourself and Others
Unit 9—Deeper Principles and Practices
Upon completing this course, you will have the inspiration and techniques to deepen your personal nature experiences and have the skills to guide others into their own meaningful rapport with the natural world. Join us in this transformative journey, and let the wisdom of Joseph Bharat Cornell guide you and your loved ones to a profound inner understanding of the beauty that surrounds us.
Enroll now for $199 and start sharing the joy of Nature!
Your Instructors
Joseph Bharat Cornell
Founder & President
Sharing Nature Worldwide
From his earliest years, Joseph Cornell felt a sensitive attunement with the mysteries and beauties of nature. Born in northern California near the beautiful Feather River on September 2, 1950, he spent much time exploring the marshes, orchards, and mountains near his home. During the early 1970s, he designed his own Bachelor of Science degree program in nature awareness at California State University at Chico.
The nature awareness methods featured in Cornell’s Sharing Nature Book Series are used by millions of parents, educators, naturalists, and youth and religious leaders all over the world. Mr. Cornell’s second book, Listening to Nature, has inspired thousands of adults to deepen their relationship with nature.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service selected his first book, Sharing Nature with Children®, as one of the 15 most influential books—published from 1890 to today—that has connected children to nature. Other authors honored in the exhibit include Rachel Carson and Ernest Thompson Seton.
Cornell’s highly effective outdoor learning strategy, Flow Learning™, was featured by the U.S. National Park Service as one of five recommended learning theories, along with the work of Maria Montessori, Howard Gardner, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget.
Joseph Cornell is the founder and president of Sharing Nature Worldwide, one of the planet’s most popular and influential environmental education programs. He is the honorary president of Japan Nature Game Association that has 10,000 trained Sharing Nature leaders and 224 regional associations. Japan’s national elementary science curriculum promotes Sharing Nature experiences as a way to help students “get close to nature” and “love nature.”
Joseph lives in northern California at Ananda Village, a successful intentional community based on simple living and high thinking.
Greg Traymar
Presenter
Years ago, during an Outward Bound trip in Utah’s Desolation Canyon, Greg Traymar was resting comfortably on the sandy banks of the Green River, enjoying the magnificent canyon scenery, when he was overtaken by a profound peace and calmness. From this life-changing experience, he realized that his life’s work would be helping others find the same inner renewal and love for nature.
Greg enrolled at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, where he studied environmental education and outdoor leadership. He holds a B.A. degree in Environmental Studies, with a minor in Outdoor Leadership. During his college years, he had many opportunities to work with groups outdoors, through the National Outdoor Leadership School, Outward Bound, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Greg experienced all of the challenges and frustrations that young nature educators typically encounter when trying to help children develop an appreciation for nature’s wonders. The students had trouble focusing their attention. “Nature study” just wasn’t very interesting. There were more fun things to do, than listen to the teacher drone on about plants and animals. But when Greg began using the Sharing Nature and Flow Learning™ methods, the transformation was immediate and powerful. Not only were the children keenly interested and enthusiastically engaged – they actually begged for more nature time! Flow Learning™ exceeded Greg’s hopes and expectations, because it gave children their own, inner experiences of nature and awakened a love for the natural world in their hearts.
Awards
In 2007, Greg received the Environmental Education award from his college department, as well as the prestigious Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, a national honor presented to a graduating college senior who has distinguished themselves in service to others and service to the community.