Bowdoin College Children's Center Fall Workshop Series

Held over a series of four sessions beginning September 24, 2025:
Creating outdoor, nature-based learning opportunities for all.
Goal: Consider successes and barriers and look towards next steps when offering nature-based learning to children of all abilities and backgrounds.

Objectives: We will discuss many ways of offering outdoor, nature-based opportunities based on participants' experiences. This conversation will focus on educating families in addition to sharing resources and perspectives. We will brainstorm how to work within our different environments, how to source materials, and address staffing realities and ratios. There will be discussion on how to bring in families and the community and what kinds of information we can offer to embrace outdoor, nature-based education with curiosity and support. We will address how to meet families where they are at, especially in terms of acquiring necessary outdoor gear and offering a balance of family education and resources.

• Register here.

• Other session dates:

  • October 8, 2025: How nature-based play is a foundation for anti-bias education.

  • October 29, 2025: Addressing outdoor equity and justice with staff.

  • November 19, 2025: Sustaining outdoor, nature-based learning in theory and practice

  • Session information, here.

• Location for all sessions: Bowdoin College Children's Center; 6 South Street, Brunswick  

• Time for all sessions: Wednesday evenings from 5:45-7:30pm

• Certificates of Participation are available from MaineECO for elective training hours

• It is beneficial to attend all sessions but not required, attend what you can!

• Light snacks & beverages will be served

• Facilitated by Martha Eshoo, Executive Director and Lauren Ball, Lead Preschool Educator