The Universe is an incredible place, and if we take a moment to get present with our existence we can truly tap into how fortunate we are to be here to learn, play, help, and evolve. With this freedom, comes responsibility. We are the main stewards of this Earth and are relied on by many to conserve and preserve our natural resources and cultural traditions. Furthermore, we also rely on nature for our health and well-being. Naturally, I have observed that this relationship works as a symbiotic relationship and the reciprocal healing elements tend to function best from a biomimicry lens where healthy ecosystems are the model for healthy human behavior. With this, Natures Navigation was woven through art and science serving those who intrinsically know that everything is interconnected and want to remember and embody being at Home here. All of our research, conservation, and education programs offer a balance of scientific knowledge, cultural responsiveness, and personal sovereignty for a comprehensive experience.
We teach to and through the heart, the mind, the body, and the spirit.
With Love and Gratitude, Julie
Place Based Learning
Culturally Responsive Curriculum and Pedagogy
Community Based Co-Design
Equitable Evaluation Frameworks
Science is a way of building knowledge about the universe through tested iterative processes that construct new ideas and illuminate the world around us.
Conservation ecology is the applied branch of ecology and evolutionary biology that allows us to understand the best practices of management for maintaining the biodiversity and integrity of natural resources.
Nature based education is an educational psychology approach to learning about the natural world through immersion in the natural world that has historically been the way human societies have educated their children.
Understanding past and present ecological practices and honoring unique funds of knowledge around our environment is of utmost value for culturally contextual educational design and natural resource management.
Participatory design honors diversity and shows us how people who share a common cultural system organize and shape the physical and social world around them, and are in turn shaped by those ideas, behaviors, and physical environments.
Our body is our temple and our direct connection to how we experience the world. Nature has already written our optimal health plan. Let us honor our body through reverence of the elemental life forces that sustain us.
Prioritizing elevating individual voices to allow sovereignty and challenge deficit views of marginalized communities.
Creating assessment tools and evaluation protocols that measure impact and value through representing participants lived experience.
Implementing program design that is appropriate for the learning content, context, and community.
We do not post pictures of children or animals we work alongside for respect for individual and collective dignity, privacy, and stereotypes. We discourage the white savior industrial complex brought upon by contrasting the "suffering other" and the "western savior" through the overseas selfie. #instagrammingafrica
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