Celebrating the cycles of nature helps us synchronize ourselves with our nature neighborhoods. Join eco-connection mentors Honey Sweet Harmony to honor the coming of Spring! Participants will be guided through activities that help us feel Spring's energy of illumination and inspiration - including songs particularly suited to multigenerational, community-style singing. You can then draw inspiration from your participation in this gathering to design activities for your own household, community, and programs.

These gatherings are interactive and experiential so live attendance is highly encouraged!  

We'll start at 7pm, with our Zoom gathering space available until 9pm, leaving flexible timing for active participation. 

Practicing diversity, equity, and inclusion, these online gatherings are designed for maximal accessibility. If you need to eat, drink, move/stretch physically, take a break from looking at the digital screen and just listen, have a youngster of your household present with you, or other forms of flexibility that will make live attendance possible, please know those are supported. Reach out to programs@anbe.org if you have any questions.

A certificate of completion will be provided upon request to those who attend the complete event live.

A recording of the gathering plus a bundle of gifts to inspire your own Spring activity designs will be emailed to all who register.

While there is no charge to attend, donations for this event help ANBE continue to offer high quality, accessible programs for everyone. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This online gathering is designed for everyone who guides nature-based education and outdoor learning, which may include: teachers, administrators and board members of schools and childcare providers; parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, Big Sisters/Brothers/Siblings; naturalists; environmental educators; outdoor educators; wilderness survival enthusiasts; ancestral skills & nature connection mentors; community story, song, and movement/dance leaders; permaculturists, and more!

MEET YOUR FACILITATORS

Honey Sweet Harmony is an interspecies creativity-catalyzing mentorship constellation. McCadden is the human spokesperson, collaborating with dog and cat helpers. Together kin* are committed to remembering regenerative cultural patterns, and have decades of experience with all ages from toddlers to seniors as deep nature connection mentors and ancestral skills facilitators specializing in stories, music, and movement, eco-spiritual healing arts, ceremony facilitation, and grief / peace tending. For 25 years kin have taught enrichment programs in a diverse range of public and private schools, camps, community centers, spiritual-based and nature-based organizations. McCadden has served as a facilitator for ANBE webinars, Village Talk (a weekly phone conference for adults committed to nature connection), Community Song Circles and Story Circles, Ancestor Suppers, solar and lunar phase ceremonies, and many more forms of multigenerational community events inspired by nature’s rhythms. They also offer private mentoring and eco-healing sessions for individuals, families, and organizations. You'll find seasonal Song Groves and activity ideas that kin have cultivated for ANBE in our Blog pages.

(*these nature-kinship signalling pronouns, ki/singular like s/he, kin/plural like they, come from Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, and Gathering Moss)