Nature Awareness Skills with Dan Puplett

Connection Matters Podcast

Things we talk about in this episode

• Gratitude for natures power to restore
• Happiness and wellbeing
• Dan’s early experience of noticing nature
• Biophilia - we all have a natural love of life and the living world; the affinity of human beings for other life forms
• The importance of adults mentoring children in nature
• The importance for nature connection for mental health
• The beauty and miracle of nature
• Kamana naturalist training programThe benefits of nature connection, recreation and education.
• Connection first and then the knowledge and desire for the details come naturally
• The benefits of mentoring through working with passions and edges
• 'The art of mentoring' and the eight shields.
• The long term benefits of long term mentoring from childhood.
• Nature connection as a gateway to healing and belonging

Links mentioned in this episode

Dan's website including 1:1 mentoring with Dan

www.danpuplett.co.uk

Kamana Naturalist Training Programme

https://wildernessawareness.org/adult-programs/kamana

FSC Guide to British Bird Tracks and Signs by Dan Puplett

www.field-studies-council.org/shop/publications/bird-tracks-and-signs/

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www.facebook.com/danpuplettnature

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The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson

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Biography

Dan Puplett is a naturalist, conservationist and nature educator (and lifelong biophile). He is a certified tracker and teaches a range of naturalist skills including wildlife tracking, bird language, botany and nature connection. Dan mentors people of all ages, from Forest School kids to professional ecologists. He is also a Kamana Naturalist Training Programme instructor and an Associate Tutor for the Field Studies Council. He worked for rewilding charity Trees for Life for over a decade and continues his involvement with this project. Dan sometimes drools when he sees good tracks.