Episode 34: Emilie Lygren – Interweaving science and poetry

Emilie is an educator, facilitator and poet, whose work reflects a deep commitment to creating a more connected world. She finds joy in exploring the interplay between scientific thinking and poetry and values how each of these ways of thinking can inform the other.

Listen to hear more about:

• Emilie’s work with the BEETLES project and how she has developed as an environmental educator.
• How the BEETLES team connects with community partners to help make their programming more equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
• How Emilie began nature journaling and how she always finds her way back to poetry.
• Social-emotional learning, what it is and how it can be fostered in learners.
• Emilie’s collaboration with John Muir Laws, first writing their outdoor learning curriculum and then their book “How to Teach Nature Journaling”.
• The power of using words, pictures and numbers, in tandem, on a nature journal page.
• The transformative power of connection to the self, community and land.
• The easy co-existence of science and poetry in Emilie’s work.

Find more about Emilie through her website emilielygren.com. You can order her poetry book ‘What We Were Born For’ using this link.

Emilie is co-author of the book ‘How to Teach Nature Journaling’. You can order the book from her website here.

You can learn more about the BEETLES project through their website beetlesproject.org.

Click on the names below to discover more about some of Emilie’s favourite poets:

• Naomi Shihab Nye
• Jericho Brown
• Kim Stafford

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, is a work that talks about the interweaving of science, indigenous wisdom and the heart. Find out more about the book and its author at robinwallkimmerer.com.

Emilie will be giving a poetry workshop at International Nature Journaling Week on June 1st, and teaching a class at the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference. You can learn more about the conference and register by going to johnmuirlaws.com/wildwonder.

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