Join leaders from Nature Connection organizations throughout North America this February for our 6th annual conference where we will exchange best
Connect your team.
Join the Nature Connection Network and share resources, knowledge and best practices, with peers within other organizations in a more coordinated and collaborative manner.
Leverage the experience of other organizations.
Join a network of nature connection organizations and give your team access to the hard earned experience of other nature connection leaders.
Access resources and stop reinventing the wheel.
Join a vibrant network that is coordinating goals, data and strategies to connect organizations, allowing for collaborations that amplifies all efforts.
February 24 – 26, 2021
The 2021 Nature Connection Leadership Conference
Wednesday – Friday
2021 CONFERENCE THEME:
What Is Our New and Evolving Role?
Join us this year online! Click here to learn more about the 2021 Nature Connection Leadership Conference. As we schedule the programming, we are trying to be inclusive across multiple time zones.
I see the Network as a platform for growth in humanity, and as an opportunity for reconciliation with the original people of this land, for the teachings that have been given.
David Vanderhoop
Co-Founder of Sassafras Earth Education
Being part of the network is unifying and nourishing, and can only help us strengthen our relationships and work——at a time the world needs us most.
Angella Gibbons
Founder & Director of EarthWalk Vermont
I am seeing the power of the network improve our schools and amplify our work. I count on the collective wisdom of all of the member schools in this network to help me solve simple and complex problems at Wild Earth. It feels like we are really working together as one!
David Brownstein
Executive Director of Wild Earth
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