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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
Unplug your Children: Lead Them to the Benefits of Outdoor Play Published in Maine Women's Journal: June 2006
Unstructured play in the out of doors is a gift most adults growing up in Maine, or other rural states, have been privileged to experience. However, this is often not true for the children and youth currently growing up in Maine or elsewhere. In his most recent book, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv, a nationally noted child advocate, quotes from an interview with a 4th grader: “I would rather play indoors, because that’s where the outlets are.” |
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Communicating With The Deceased/A Shamanic Perspective |
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
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We are spirits travelling around in a body. That is a shamanic perspective on what happens when our spirit chooses to leave our body and continue its journey of existence in a different reality. Dying is not difficult; it's knowing where you are going that challenges most of us |
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What is Nature Deficit Disorder? |
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 |
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I did not coin the phrase: Nature Deficit Disorder, and it is not a diagnosed medical condition, but rather it is a description of the human costs of alienation from nature. In his book Last Child in the Woods, author Richard Louv describes in detail how we have come to this place in our human history. Among other things, this wise and highly acclaimed expert in child advocacy is also the founder of Connect for Kids, the largest child-advocacy site on the Internet. I will draw from some of the data he collected for the publication of his book in this presentation as well as from numerous other sources. |
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Nature Deficit Disorder #2 |
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 |
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In the 2006 issue of Maine Kids Count, a publication of the Maine Children’s Alliance, comes the following quote:
“The area of greatest concern, as illustrated by the data, is children’s mental health. Hospitalizations for children with mental health diagnoses rose by 41% between 2000 and 2004…common decency demands that these children receive the help they so desperately need to keep their suffering to a minimum” I hope to illustrate in this talk that part of the help we offer our children is in the form of reconnecting them with nature. |
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Communicating With The Deceased #4 |
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 |
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For many days I worked with Donald’s spirit and helped bridge the gap between him and his family by communicating what he wanted, how he wanted to live out his remaining days and how he wanted to die. There were a lot of specific details about his wishes regarding his property, and other occasionally humorous exchanges like get me out of this @#$#@@ hospital gown and get me my pajamas! |
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