Episode 34: Emilie Lygren – Interweaving science and poetry

<p>Emilie is an educator, facilitator and poet, whose work reflects a deep commitment to creating a more connected world. She finds joy in exploring the interplay between scientific thinking and poetry and values how each of these ways of thinking can inform the other.</p><p>Listen to hear more about:</p><ul><li>Emilie’s work with the BEETLES project and how she has developed as an environmental educator.</li><li>How the BEETLES team connects with community partners to help make their programming more equitable, diverse, and inclusive.</li><li>How Emilie began nature journaling and how she always finds her way back to poetry.</li><li>Social-emotional learning, what it is and how it can be fostered in learners.</li><li>Emilie’s collaboration with John Muir Laws, first writing their outdoor learning curriculum and then their book “How to Teach Nature Journaling”.</li><li>The power of using words, pictures and numbers, in tandem, on a nature journal page.</li><li>The transformative power of connection to the self, community and land.</li><li>The easy co-existence of science and poetry in Emilie’s work.</li></ul><p><br />Find more about Emilie through her website <a href="https://emilielygren.com">emilielygren.com</a>. You can order her poetry book <a href="https://emilielygren.com/books-broadsides/">‘What We Were Born For’</a> using this <a href="https://emilielygren.com/books-broadsides/">link</a>.</p><p>Emilie is co-author of the book <a href="https://emilielygren.com/books-broadsides/">‘How to Teach Nature Journaling’</a>. You can order the book from her website <a href="https://emilielygren.com/books-broadsides/">here</a>.</p><p>You can learn more about the BEETLES project through their website <a href="http://beetlesproject.org/">beetlesproject.org</a>.</p><p>Click on the names below to discover more about some of Emilie’s favourite poets:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/naomi-shihab-nye">Naomi Shihab Nye</a></li><li><a href="https://www.jerichobrown.com/">Jericho Brown</a></li><li><a