Children and nature
Some notes based on some sharing by Vijetha.



This workshop was conducted for some children of the assistants / help of a residential community, to acknowledge their value in making everyone’s lives easier. It started with some games where children could try to identify a tree by just the feel of the tree. Then the children discussed about their experiences, and more about…
Had the opportunity to conduct a Kutoohala (curiosity – with experiential science) workshop at Kalkunte Village… Though these experiments were the same, and a repetition for me… they were new and very special for these children. And that enthusiasm and curiosity brings new life to those very same experiments! There were 60+ children from two…
They are invisible only as we take them for granted, but visible if we really look out for them. Since Darwin, we have generally thought of trees as striving, disconnected loners, competing for water, nutrients and sunlight, with the winners shading out the losers and sucking them dry. The timber industry in particular sees forests…
A star fruit tree at a friend’s house was in full blossom… it has this phase for just a week’s time or so. It had rained heavily and though it had stopped, it was fun to feel it raining again from the tree while picking the fruits, for sharing with friends. There were tiny pink…
Doing a session on Contemplation of Nature with FoundNature, we were to spend some time with any object of nature in the way the facilitator Ajay Rastogi described. As a practitioner of some silence every day, it resonated with my practice 🙂 Authenticity is the common foundation it was really nice to learn from the…
Majakali is in the northern part of India, where my daughter and me went on a retreat. Though not actually in the Himalayas, it was exciting to know that it was near it, and one may see the peaks in the distance… …depending on the weather! The group turned out to be a group of…