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Flow Learning® is a companion to Joseph Cornell's earlier book, Sharing Nature®: Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages, which describes in depth the practice of Flow Learning and features fifty activities.
Many practitioners-while observing their groups' lively, enthusiastic, and inspired responses-express amazement at how well the Flow Learning process works. Direct experience, intuition, intrinsic motivation, creative play, and calm, expansive awareness-these essential yet subtle ingredients infuse Flow Learning with power. Each chapter in this book brings to life one or more of these ingredients to enable the reader to fully understand how to use them for best effect. When these deeper ingredients come into play, Flow Learning becomes truly magical.
Flow Learning not only accelerates personal change but also has the power to awaken higher consciousness. For those who have used Sharing Nature activities and Flow Learning in the past, this book will reveal the depth and full potential of this teaching method. Readers of every background, and every walk of life, will find in this book an invaluable resource for stimulating positive change in themselves and in others.
About the author
Joseph Bharat Cornell is an internationally renowned author and founder of Sharing Nature Worldwide, one of the planet's most widely respected nature awareness programs. His first book, Sharing Nature with Children, "sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education" and has been published in twenty languages and sold half a million copies. He is the honorary president of Sharing Nature Association of Japan, which has 10,000 members and 35,000 trained leaders.Cornell's the author of the Sharing Nature Book Series, used by millions of parents, educators, naturalists, and youth and religious leaders all over the world. Cornell's books, Listening to Nature and The Sky and Earth Touched Me, have inspired thousands of adults to deepen their relationship with nature. Two recent books of his: The Sky and Earth Touched Me and Sharing Nature were awarded Indie Book Grand Prize Winners for Non-Fiction.The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service selected Cornell's Sharing Nature with Children as one of the fifteen most influential books published since 1890 for connecting children and families to nature. His highly effective outdoor learning strategy, Flow Learning, was featured by the U.S. National Park Service as one of five recommended learning theories, along with the works of Maria Montessori, Howard Gardner, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget.Cornell has received many international awards for his Sharing Nature books and work. He received the prestigious Countess Sonja-Bernadotte Prize in Germany for his vast influence on environmental education in Central Europe. In 2011 Cornell was selected as one of the world's "100 most influential opinion leaders committed to the Environment" by the French organization, Les Anges Gardiens de la Plante. Known for his warmth and joyful enthusiasm, Cornell "has a genius for finding the essence of a subject, explaining it in clear and compel
