Arts in Nature with Children and Young People: A Guide Towards Health Equality, Wellbeing, and Sustainability [Paperback]

1. Introduction? 2.?Immersion and Transcendence through Music Making in the More-than-human World? 3. The Breeze Forest School Project: Child-centred Support for Development and Wellbeing? 4. Performing with/in Place: Exploring Sense of Place through Story Making and Sharing? 5. Exploring Restorative Connections with Nature through Communicative Musicality? 6. Pocket Adventures: Nurturing Young Childrens Wellbeing and Development through Art-in-nature Early Childhood Education? 7. The Village project: A Community of Relational Creativity? 8. An Outdoor Therapy Service Offering Art Therapy for Young People and Adults? 9. Learning to Live Well Together: Art and Ecological Research with Young Children? 10. Forest of Imagination: Reimagining Familiar Spaces through Creativity and Nature Awareness? 11. Open Spaces, Open Senses: On Sensuous Presence in Eco-somatic Practice of Felt Thinking and Therapeutic Walking with Young People? 12. Open Studio in the Greenhouse: Nature-connected Expressive and Therapeutic Art Experiences with Vulnerable Adolescents? 13. Whats beneath our Feet? Cultivating Cultural Awareness through Arts-in-nature with Australian Children and Young People? 14. Conclusion

This novel text brings together research and practice on the intersection between arts and nature, and their impact on children and young peoples wellbeing, health equality, and sustainability.

Arts in Nature with Children and Young People is essential reading for all who wish to understand the fundamental connection between human flourishing and the natural environment. Like Zoe and Nicola, I too have been inspired and moved by the work of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination. Through the voices of children, we know that being creative in nature is transformative for their learning and growth. This is a critical field of study in relation to the climate emergency and the ever growing crisis in young peoples mental healó-