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I love my world is a playful hands-on nature connection guidebook for parents, forest school leaders, teachers, play workers and outdoor educators of all kinds - and just the book you need on days out with family and friends. It's a forest school guidebook with great ideas for camping, playing in the park and doing stuff with family and friends. Learn creation myths and activities to do with them, how to light fires, make survival dens from sticks and leaves, awaken your senses, read tracks, identify plants, use a knife and bushcraft tools safely, navigate without aids, sneak like a ninja, make natural land art, develop your curiosity and instincts, cook foraged food and chocolate bananas on an open fire... and more, including how to lead successful outdoor learning sessions based on natural cycles and patterns! It is full of: stories and tales to awaken curiosity, games to awaken the senses, bushcraft, survival skills, environmental art, nature connection and outdoor play activities mentoring tips and listening skills beautiful images and music making ideas reflections on life's learning journey inspiring nature connection quotes huge sections of further inspiration and references It's been written for anyone who shares a love of our world who spends time outdoors, wants to deepen their connection to nature, and their own creativity, and enjoys sharing it with other people. It's a prefect book to take with you when you go camping, on an outdoor adventure or a holiday in nature - because it's packed with holistic learning ideas that fire up curiosity, creativity and a care taking spirit. I wrote it to help people, especially parents and their children, step into a closer, heartfelt and regenerative relationship with their environment, and to develop a caring attitude, hope for the next generations of human and non human beings. It was my first gift to help make the world a better place, which has been followed by more! Both online and offline story-led and musical nature connection resources available at www.natureconnection.co.uk https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk9EV3DFCQc

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Michael Morpurgo said Here's a book which puts children in touch with the natural world. It will open their eyes and their ears, their hearts and their minds, to the countryside. Full of fun and imaginative, practical ideas this book is a must for everyone concerned with children, the environment and the part we must all play in protecting it. A wonderful book, using practical insightful, effervescent ways to encourage children's engagement with Nature - Jay Griffith author of Wild and Kith. This is far beyond a mere collection of outdoor learning activities. Chris takes a holistic view of our current environmental crisis and presents a heartfelt as well as intellectual response to it by taking out young people outside to learn to play and play to learn. It tackles the heart, head and hands of outdoor education and promoted me to re-evaluate not just what I do as an outdoor educator, but why and how. I have been regularly dipping back into 'I Love my World' since it was first published in 2009 and I recommend it to all my Forest School Trainees. Thanks for writing it Chris! It is already a must have classic: ) -Richard Irvine This book changed my world and way of thinking. As a Forest school Practioner it was recommended read and I loved it. It made me laugh it made me cry but above all it made me say yes yes yes! - Tina I love I love my world! This is a fantastic book on so many levels; educational, practical, spiritual. It is easy to engage with at which ever level is most comfortable for you. Chris Holland writes an 'idiot's guide' to activities without patronising.' - Fi I can't recommend this book enough! It covers all year groups and I for one can't put the book down. It is truly inspirational. - Jacks This book is such a solid and helpful resource, had it for years and still come back to it all the time. So full of wisdom, care, playfulness and fun. - May This book was first recommended to me during my PGCE course, by a very wise and experienced SEN teacher at a placement school. Many ideas for parents and out of school educators, as well as curriculum links for those who cannot escape these! I'm currently spending part of lockdown completing the author's storytelling course, also superb. -Rachel At first hold 'I Love My World' seems like a slim volume, and certainly slips comfortably into the hands. Deceptively, however, it comprises a fulsome 240 pages in print format and manages to cover an extensive array of topics drawn from bushcraft, outdoor education and environmental play. In fact, it's really two books neatly rolled into one: a wide-ranging compendium of activity ideas for creatively teaching, mentoring and playing with children in the great outdoors, alongside words of gently distilled wisdom about how we can each live in closer harmony with the natural world. It succeeds in engaging at both levels - Dr Martin Maudsley. Amazing book. A book that sang to me and has given me so many ideas for my nature therapy group. Well worth buying! The personal communication that you can have with the author via email, and with all the extra resources he has, is fantastic. Jo

Michael Morpurgo said Here's a book which puts children in touch with the natural world. It will open their eyes and their ears, their hearts and their minds, to the countryside. Full of fun and imaginative, practical ideas this book is a must for everyone concerned with children, the environment and the part we must all play in protecting it. A wonderful book, using practical insightful, effervescent ways to encourage children's engagement with Nature - Jay Griffith author of Wild and Kith. This is a beautiful book that manages to be both written like a gorgeous fairy tale whilst also being very practical. Yvonne Marr This is far beyond a mere collection of outdoor learning activities. Chris takes a holistic view of our current environmental crisis and presents a heartfelt as well as intellectual response to it by taking out young people outside to learn to play and play to learn. It tackles the heart, head and hands of outdoor education and promoted me to re-evaluate not just what I do as an outdoor educator, but why and how. I have been regularly dipping back into 'I Love my World' since it was first published in 2009 and I recommend it to all my Forest School Trainees. Thanks for writing it Chris! It is already a must have classic: ) -Richard Irvine This book changed my world and way of thinking. As a Forest school Practioner it was recommended read and I loved it. It made me laugh it made me cry but above all it made me say yes yes yes! - Tina I love I love my world! This is a fantastic book on so many levels; educational, practical, spiritual. It is easy to engage with at which ever level is most comfortable for you. Chris Holland writes an 'idiot's guide' to activities without patronising.' - Fi I can't recommend this book enough! It covers all year groups and I for one can't put the book down. It is truly inspirational. - Jacks This book is such a solid and helpful resource, had it for years and still come back to it all the time. So full of wisdom, care, playfulness and fun. - May This book was first recommended to me during my PGCE course, by a very wise and experienced SEN teacher at a placement school. Many ideas for parents and out of school educators, as well as curriculum links for those who cannot escape these! I'm currently spending part of lockdown completing the author's storytelling course, also superb. -Rachel At first hold 'I Love My World' seems like a slim volume, and certainly slips comfortably into the hands. Deceptively, however, it comprises a fulsome 240 pages in print format and manages to cover an extensive array of topics drawn from bushcraft, outdoor education and environmental play. In fact, it's really two books neatly rolled into one: a wide-ranging compendium of activity ideas for creatively teaching, mentoring and playing with children in the great outdoors, alongside words of gently distilled wisdom about how we can each live in closer harmony with the natural world. It succeeds in engaging at both levels - Dr Martin Maudsley. Amazing book. A book that sang to me and has given me so many ideas for my nature therapy group. Well worth buying! The personal communication that you can have with the author via email, and with all the extra resources he has, is fantastic. Jo

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