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Joseph Cornell, the author of Sharing Nature, is coming to Taiwan in early June to host a workshop.Welcome your participation!

The advocator of Nature Awareness and the founder of Sharing Nature Foundation, Joseph Cornell, is a contemporary most revered American nature educationist in the world. Cornell’s nature awareness activities and philosophic(al) ideas inspired tens of thousands of teachers, parents, nature educationists, scouts group, and students. He has written a series of books on practical nature experiences. The book Sharing Nature, in particular, applied to all ages for nature awareness activities, has been translated into 23 languages and published over 600,000 copies. Knowledge, sensibility and spirituality are integrated into Cornell’s teachings and ideas, which exude a unique appealing that brings people back to their true nature, and it also helps people experience the beauty of nature and the joy of learning with their pure hearts. Not only can one learn about nature, one learns how to feel the nature, dance with the soul of nature, aspire and appreciate the natural life. Cornell’s teaching -- flow learning, built on nature, is used to revive our love and awareness toward nature. Flow learning breaks with the conventional top-down teaching method; instead, it is learner-centered. The facilitator needs to learn the ways to support and reinforce the deep learning so as to help people know about nature by experiencing nature directly. They also learn to internalize the nature activities and apply it to open the mind, calm the thoughts, and experience the harmony among people and the harmony between man and nature. Nature has the power to reshape, to affect our senses and intelligence; nature can expand our senses, rekindle the awe-inspiring and magical sensibility. With his tolerance, mildness, and thorough observation of both human and nature, Cornell designed all kinds of activities that help experience and explore the nature. People are particularly impressed with what he designed. All participants, regardless of age or nationality, have given passionate responses. Because the activities offer each person dynamic and elevating experiences of nature, and allow them to go through the miraculous change towards the nature experience. The philosophy and activities of nature awareness are wildly applied to nature education, environment education, outdoor recreation activities, homeland education, and scouts education. We are currently facing the degrading planet environment, the loss of biodiversity, the alienation in society, the disconnection with nature, materialism, and drastic changes in values. Fortunately, whether from motion to calmness or from outside in, the Flowing Learning of Nature Awareness helps us to rethink and re-locate the relationship of man and nature, rebuild the connection with nature, and direct us to discover the wisdom and survival skills to settle down in this ever changing world. Joseph Cornell will visit Taiwan in early June 2017. The series of activities include June 2: a public speech and book signing at Chientan Youth Activity Center in the evening June 3~4 and June 6~7: Two advanced workshops, where Cornell will lead the learning in a deeper awareness and experience of nature wisdom. On the occasion, all the attendants will work in synergy to push the theme forward, combine the core spirit of Chinese culture, and to set the new trend of Nature Awareness in Taiwan. Whoever takes interest in promoting the idea of Nature Awareness is welcome to sign up on the website: http://www.ymsnp.gov.tw. The activities are sponsored by the ……….