MG Nature Journaling Group Meeting

Group’s purpose:

• Enjoy each other's company and the many benefits of nature journaling (original class was under the WCMGA social events umbrella)
• Learn/practice various new and existing skills while enjoying and learning more about the world around us
• Let this practice take us where it will and perhaps be able to apply our learnings to MG or other community/stewardship activities

Current process (will evolve over time as needed):

• Want to keep this easy and informal for everyone involved
• Pick a location and meet for about two hours. We can vary the location each time or stick with one place to see changes/fully explore it over time.
• Start with introductions (if new people) and a short (optional) sharing session on any highlights from your nature journaling activities/questions since last time and what the group is interested in focusing on for the current session. Terri will give a mini-lesson on how to draw "x" or other technique-oriented topics (ideally based on requests from the group). All of this should take no more than 15-30 minutes so we have lots of time to journal.
• Go journal for 45-60 minutes. This could be on your own or multiple people could choose to study the same subject and compare notes.
• Do a brief check-in part way through to see how everyone is doing and decide to continue for a little longer or regroup
• Save at least 15-20 minutes at the end to have a final regroup to give people a chance to share whatever they would like about the day's experience/learnings and discuss location/focus for the next session.