Welcome from Chris!

Welcome from Chris!



Hiya! Thank you for buying this online course. I am super happy to have put the original paperback onto this online format and I hope you find it useful and easy to manage.

As this is online and thus editable content, I would love to hear your feedback to make it as user-friendly as possible.

Scroll on down to the bottom of the resources to get the PDF download to add ILMW to your device for access at all times!

So, over to you, please dig in and I hope you enjoy the course in nature connection I offer. It's playful, practical and meant to help you feel at home on the planet and enabled to share some of its wonders, with fiends, students or relatives... and to help you be a more confident friend of the earth.

To help us all step into a closer relationship with nature.

I also deliver training, team building and fun days out, for schools, businesses and organisations in the themes of Nature-Centric Leadership, Natural Flow learning, Storytelling and Natural Musicians... see the Stepping into a closer relationship with nature section at the end.

Thanks again, 

Warmly, 

Chris

I LOVE MY WORLD - paper free & Epub

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I LOVE MY WORLD 2023 - new ePub file

  • ILMW_CH FINAL 19 05 2023 (1).epub

Welcome!

  • Welcome from Chris!
  • A kind (of) foreword by Dr Martin Maudsley.
  • Thanksgiving
  • Introduction
  • Massive upgrade for July 2020 the new colour Epub
  • The book in 60 seconds!

Chapter One - What are we and where do we come from?

  • Chapter 1
  • Activity - Blobsters

Chapter 2 - Survival Basics

  • S1 Shelter Building
  • Activity - Blobster Dens and shelter building tips
  • S2 Fire and fire making
  • Activity - Making sparks with 'fire-steels' to light tinder
  • Activity - Flaming Fire Pits
  • Activity - Five Minute Fire Challenge
  • S3 Water
  • Activity - Go on an Elephant Walk
  • Activity - Filtering Water
  • Activity - Making Herbal Tea
  • SB4 Food and foraging
  • Activity - Fairy Plates
  • Spokes of a wheel foragers map
  • Activity - Cook a stir fry of spring greens

Chapter 3 - Sharpening up and using tools

  • Sharpening up!
  • Activity - The circle of trust
  • Activity - Getting familiar with the tool, a fixed blade knife
  • Activity - Whittling! Learning safe techniques and Using the tool to make 'splitz-kids''
  • Activity - Making Tongs
  • A word about Pruning and Coppicing
  • Activity - Making a bowl with an axe and fire!
  • Activity - Making a Magic Wand

Chapter 3 3/4

  • Activity - Seven Directions Poems

Chapter 4 - Senses, beyond the big five

  • Beyond the big five
  • Tracking, Signs and asking questions
  • Activity - Follow that log!
  • Activity for sight - soaring eagles
  • Activity for sense of smell -
  • Activity for touch - Blindfold trail following
  • Activity for hearing 1- Dear Ears
  • Activity for hearing 2 - Guard a tree
  • Activity for taste - Herb walk and blindfold snack time
  • Activity for intuition - The Moccasin Game
  • Activity for balance - Balance beam
  • Activity for sense of direction - The blindfold drum stalk

Chapter 5 - Where am I?

  • Aidless Navigation and Ways of Lost-Proofing Ourselves
  • Activity - Which way do you walk?
  • Activity - making an aerial or birds eye map.
  • Activity - Songlines or RapMaps
  • Activity - Find my magic map spot

Chapter 6 - Sneaking

  • The Sneakret Service and invisibility
  • Activity - The Sneak in Circle
  • Activity - The Sneaky Assault Course
  • Activity - Pheasant and Fox (practicing being still)
  • Activity - Capture the flag

Chapter 7 - Caretaking

  • The teaching of the Copse -

Chapter 8 - Bring on the Bards!

  • Activity - Blobster Tales Pt1 Storylines
  • Activity - Blobster Tales Pt 2 - How did you get here?
  • Activity - Name drumming layer cake

Chapter 9 - Wild First Aid

  • Activity - First Aid Role Play
  • A Natural First Aid kit

Chapter 10 - Connection, Cordage and Knots

  • The Story of the Dreamcatcher
  • Activity - Webbing
  • Knots, hitches and good ole lashing!
  • The Figure of Eight
  • The Reef Knot.
  • The Fisherman's Knot
  • Clove Hitch
  • Square Lashing
  • The Timber Hitch and Killick Hitch
  • Quick Release Bowline

Chapter 11 - Community, Citizenship, Feasting and Celebration

  • Activity - The Human Woodlouse
  • Activity - Make a group Debris Hut and Totem Pole
  • Activity - Giveaway Blanket
  • A Shared Feast - from Pizza to a pot luck meal
  • Celebration - A leafy firework display
  • A reflection section!
  • Activity - Dice time!

Final bits n bobs

  • Suggested reading, resources and websites
  • About Chris Holland and Wholeland

Stepping into a closer relationship with nature.

  • Harmony, Connection, and fun music making activities
  • Nature-Centric Leadership for Businesses and organisations
  • Natural Flow learning, storytelling and leadership training for schools

PDF download of the whole book!

  • ILMWpdfsmall.pdf