nature. learning. connection.
Anne Stires Educational Consulting facilitators believe in connection. We believe in increasing care, access, and understanding of the world we live in. We stand up for social and environmental justice and work to ensure the right of all human children and educators to nature connection and outdoor learning. Through education, we advocate and protect habitats and their inhabitants–the “more than humans:” the insects, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, plants of all forms including trees and seaweed, and the mushrooms, soil, air, and waters.
With school year workshops, conference presentations, and summer courses, we support teachers and administrators to move learning outside the school building and into green spaces, gardens, community streets, area business, parks, and the ‘pop-up’ natural spaces of the schoolyard. We believe in teaching and learning that is joyful, active, and engaging to cultivate a more just and healthy world. Please connect with us to ask questions and find out more about our offerings. We look forward to hearing from and connecting with you!
“This is our work, to discover what we can give. Isn't this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?” ~Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
A systems view of life
is critical today for all professions, because the major problems of our time are systemic problems — all interconnected and interdependent — and they need corresponding systemic solutions. The systems’ view of life provides the conceptual framework for such systemic solutions.” ~Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision