My friend Randy Eady sent me a heads up about a fascinating exercise being encouraged by the Kamana Naturalist Training Program, and the Wilderness Awareness School.
It is called the 30-Day Sit Spot Challenge, and is from April 10 to May 10.
The 30-Day Sit Spot Challenge is a way for you to connect with the depth of the natural world through one spot in the nature. You do not have to be a Kamana student or a Kamana member to sign up for the challenge....
So what is this notion all about?
You go to one spot in nature over a long period of time, and make observations of what happens in in your surroundings.
The place must be close to your house and bee a safe location, and while the idea is for the spot to be as wild as possible, some folks go into their backyard.
When you sign up you will get a daily email with questions and challenges.
Consider these "optional activities designed to increase your awarenss and hone your senses" as possible writing prompts as you write about your experience in your journal, or on your blog.
Not only can you share your experience on your blog, but the site has a public foum where you can interact with other participants.
To help you understand more about this project there are a list of 3 videos, and an article, going back to November, that you will find of interest in preparing to participate.
As my friend Randy writes:
A richnness comes from the experience. It links us back to our primal rhythms. A time when we were closer to the earth, to each other and less encumbered with the "needs" of a modern-mediated experience of the world around us.Questions arise; reflection's required; Frequently, the: "does the world really have to be as complicated as it now is?" query in one form or another pops up.As Dan Corcoran, Director of the Wilderness Awareness School says, "connection through observation to one spot in the natural world has been a routine for humans for a long time."
I've signed up, and have several locations in mind for my spot.
Continue to Day 1.
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