Announcing anytime access to my introduction to nature journaling class!

You can join my class any time on Vimeo, and work at your own pace.

• Rent the series for $35

• Buy and stream or download to keep always for $95

To view the trailer and three free bonus lessons go to learnjournaling.exploringoverland.com

[You can also access on at Learn the Art of Nature Journaling ]

Ask questions directly on the video page, or join our private Nature Journaling for a Wild Life Facebook group, where you can post your assignments.

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Keeping a nature journal or field notebook can both deepen your connections to the natural world and help you learn more about it. Neither science education nor art training is needed—you will develop the skills of a naturalist and a field sketch-artist along the way. 

In this class we will learn how to practice “intentional curiosity” as the core of nature journaling: to ask questions, to dig deeper, to focus our minds both intently and intentionally, as artist and naturalist John Muir Laws says. 

Instructor Roseann Hanson, who has been keeping field notebooks and nature journals for more than 30 years, will be your guide on the journey to becoming a naturalist, nature journalist, and artist. 

This class—the first in a series for beginners—will include:

• Simple tools to get started (you really only need a pen and a notebook!):

  • types of journals

  • paper and ink suggestions

  • archival systems

• The basics of nature journal entries:

  • types of data to record

  • ways to record nature data

  • prompts for sparking curiosity

  • honing observational skills

  • how to make entries that you can refer to later

  • how to get over the fear of the blank page

• You will learn how intense observation of nature is a kind of meditation that results in new insights, deeper understanding, and even reverence and gratitude—true mindfulness.