Attention2Place
@attention2place.bsky.social
Education, place-responsive and relational pedagogical encounters with more-than-human worlds. Transdisciplinary, materialist, posthumanist perspectives 🌳 Our current fascination lies with South Down landscapes and chalk streams.
#DistanceDrift Velvet textures of summer for 1st June
Sonia Overall@soniaoverall.bsky.social · last yr.Morning! Today's #DistanceDrift invites you to take a sensory walk. Wherever you wander, indoors or out, be led by touch. Seek varieties of texture. Prefer to go hands free? Feel for textures in the terrain. Share finds as you go or at the end.
Tremendous to have a confluence (nice choice of group noun) of geographers in da house!
Thank you Rob for tonight’s conversation of deliberately meandering responses at RGS. A good opportunity for a modest confluence of geographers to meet up, listen, & talk shop - great evening. I have my copy & looking forward to an immersion, a few dips & the occasional paddle.
Attended a talk about ‘Sarn Helen’ as part of #Llandovery Wild Literature festival, by author Tom Bullough & Jackie Morris illustrator (of the book) author & artist. Began to read it & enjoying the ‘journey’ a lot! Poetic, heady words, animals nested in sacred geometry& painted in tonal hymns.
Thinking through four elements with @attention2place.bsky.social Clarke & Witt #GAConf25 @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
What wonder-full education looks like! I’ve been gifted these booklets celebrating @attention2place.bsky.social work #WhispersofChalkStream as a community project & it’s glorious! Relational learning with & as part of #nature. ❤️
Anyone seen the #FullMoon tonight? We have damp cloudy skies sadly here in Kent. Find out why Prof. Justin Dillon calls it a #SquirrelMoon & why #EnvironmentalLunacy matters. naee.org.uk/environmenta...
Environmental Lunacy Project: Squirrel Moon - UK NAEE
Traditionally, the second moon cycle of the year in the northern hemisphere has been known as the Snow Moon.
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#DistanceDrift #Imbolc #Springlight
Sonia Overall@soniaoverall.bsky.social · 2y agoMorning! Today's #DistanceDrift falls on the feast of Candlemas. Wherever you wander, indoors or out, seek encounters with the first flickering signs of spring & sources of light in the darkness. Be as literal, lateral or metaphorical as you wish; share finds as you go or at the end. Ready?🕯️
#DistanceDrift Plenty of 12th night cheer here! #wassail
Sonia Overall@soniaoverall.bsky.social · 2y agoMorning! Welcome to the first #DistanceDrift of 2025, in its new virtual home, on the auspicious date of Twelfth Night. The party's over, folks: wherever you wander, indoors or out, seek the last gasps of festive cheer in your environment. Share your finds with the hashtag as you go or at the end.
Hi everyone. EYPPC is new to BlueSky! We would love you to know about out #primary #geography CPD education webinars Sign up the next one below: www.ticketsource.co.uk/eyppc/t-rpok... and our CPD library: www.youtube.com/@geoglive882... Advice. Ideas. Inspiration!
Mapping & auditing local green spaces can be great fieldwork. At least 2 articles on cemeteries in #priGeogJounal too. #PrimaryGeography UK churchyards are havens for rare wildlife, finds conservation charity www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK churchyards are havens for rare wildlife, finds conservation charity
Caring for God’s Acre mapped out 20,000 cemeteries and recorded 10,000 species
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Thanks for your interest and support . Best wishes for a year of happiness and health to all in 2025 x 😊💚🐶🦊🐭🐮🐸🐌🐞🐜🪲🐠🐟🐢🕸️🌲🪵🌿☘️🦆💧💙
The shortest day by Susan Cooper,illustrated by Carson Ellis. ‘Through all the frosty ages you can hear them . Echoing behind us - listen ! … as promise wakens in the sleeping land’ #WinterSolstice
Lovely afternoon @MottisfontNT for our Christmas gathering 😊🎅🏼
Merry Christmas from @Attention2place to those our new friends on Bluesky and those who follow us and support our work 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄. Look forward to seeing you in the New Year 🤶🏻🤶🏻
"These are essays written for a world in motion. Plants that, in dispersal, might teach us what it means to live in the wake of change." Loving this beautiful and engaging new book, DISPERSALS, by @jessicajlee.bsky.social
As in human societies, the transmission of knowledge is vital to animal cultures. The endangered Egyptian vulture depends on pre-migratory gatherings to share safe routes. With so few elders in the Balkans, juveniles often fly straight over the sea & perish there. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Saving ‘old and wise’ animals vital for species’ survival, say scientists
Hunting bigger, more experienced animals eradicates memories and knowledge crucial to group survival, research suggests
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Situation Networks: The emotions and activities that are central to nature-connectedness experiences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Latest nature connection research: Key role of emotions Need for meaningful & deliberate engagement with nature Importance of inspiration & love Role of nostalgia & ‘beyond the moment’ narratives & traditions Disgust, boredom, & irritation get in the way findingnature.org.uk/2024/11/27/n...
Coexistence means making space—for wildlife, for forests, for rivers to flow freely. It’s not always easy, but it’s essential. What does coexistence mean to you? 🐾💚 #Coexistence #LivingTogether #PlanetWisdom
I visited the ‘Cathedral of the Pines’ at the National Pinetum in Sussex this weekend. The sculptural pillars of the trees, the diffuse silvery light through the pine needles & the tall narrow space drawing your eyes up to heaven, meant it really did have the timeless & sacred feel of a cathedral
It's almost St Andrew's Day. This blog post covers a broad range of outdoor suggestions. I'm sure you may have your own ideas too creativestarlearning.co.uk/rme-outdoors... #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary #EduSky #KS1 #KS2 #forestschool #RME #Scottish #Scotland #StAndrew
St Andrew’s Day – 10 Outdoor Celebrations
Celebrate Scotland’s National Day – Outside!
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Learning of Place and building emotional connection on foot and with imagination #walkingcurriculum www.educationthatinspires.ca/walking-curr...
Walking Curriculum
We learn a place and how to visualize spatial relationships, as children, on foot and with imagination. Place and the scale of place must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities. (Sny…
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This is a lovely interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Gathering Moss, Braiding Sweetgrass, and a fine new book on the gift economy, The Serviceberry. emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
Practical Reverence – with Robin Wall Kimmerer
In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and grat...
emergencemagazine.org
Just had the most unexpected nature experience: opened my boat hatch to see an otter frolicking in the Roding, in the willow directly opposite. Slightly hard to believe that there could be an otter in Barking, but I managed to get a video of what would appear to be the most urban otter in London!
