Welcome to our ACT!, CREATE!, and REFLECT! Resources to deepen your experience of one of our nature-connected events. Below are offerings on strengthening your connection to nature through activities that care for the earth, creative ideas for staying deeply attuned to nature, and ways to reflect on your experience.
And if you’re so inspired, we’d love to hear about what you’ve done. Mail the note card back with your comments, post about what you’ve done on social media and tag us, or write to us at info@theresilientactivist.org. Enjoy!
Scroll down for ACT!, CREATE!, or REFLECT! prompts and resources.
ACT!
Did this event prompt you to take action to preserve or protect areas like this?
Let us know what ACTIONS you’ve taken since the event to feel more connected and purposeful in caring for the earth!
Consider volunteering with:
- Heartland Conservation Alliance for tree planting
- KC Wildlands to remove invasive species, or to gather and clean native plant seeds
- Kaw River Keepers, to keep the Kaw River clean
- Blue River Stream Team, to keep the Blue River clean
Want to help preserve threatened areas?
Check in with these organizations for pending legislation and local issues:
- Thomas Hart Benton Sierra Club, Greater KC area, and Northwestern MO
- Kansas Chapter Sierra Club
- Burroughs Audubon Society, Kansas City Chapter of the National Audubon Society
- Audubon of Kansas
- Environmental committees and organizations in your city, county, or state
Want to learn more and then share it?
Check out these certification programs:
- Master Naturalists Certifications
- Master Gardener Certifications
- Grow Native Professional Certification program
- Deep Roots Nature Advisor program
CREATE!
Were you inspired to do something CREATIVE following this event?
Movement
- Sway
- Dance
- Yoga
- Tai chi
Sound
- Hum, sing, shout
- Drumming, sound bowls, piano, guitar, saxophone…
- Write a tune, write a song
Artwork/Craft
- Create something with natural materials
- Create a drawing, painting, or sculpture
- Photograph
- Cyanotype
- Needlework
- Collage
Written word
- Poem
- Essay
- Short story
- Tribute
- Article for a newsletter
REFLECT!
Are there ways you’d like to reflect more deeply on this experience? What has this event meant to you?
Journal about it
Here are some prompts:
- Describe the smallest natural detail you noticed today
- Write about a plant as if you’re meeting it for the first time
- What natural scent stood out today?
- What was the color of the sky?
Or visit a website like these
- 100 Nature Journal Prompts for Mindful Writing (Ultimate Guide) from a beautiful space
- Art Journaling to Become Grounded and Resilient and How to Spark Joy and Reduce Stress: Powerful Journal Prompts for Self-Care from The Resilient Activist
Meditate on it
- Check our Events Page for our Meditation for Regeneration times and dates
- Check out our Executive Director, Sami Aaron’s free Meditations on Insight Timer and other Nature-centered, Yoga Nidra (yoga sleep), and Breathwork meditations there or on YouTube.
- Spend time connecting deeply with something interesting from nature – a feather, a rock, a pine cone, a seedpod. Let it be your focus for a time, and allow your mind and heart to explore everything about it. Then notice how it makes you feel.
