The Worldwide Movement
Sharing Nature sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education
—National Association for Interpretation
—National Association for Interpretation
Here are the full bio's of our best Sharing Nature country representatives. Each one is deeply experienced.
Sharing Nature representatives are exceptional individuals who love nature and people, and can bring them beautifully together.
Sharing Nature representatives are exceptional individuals who love nature and people, and can bring them beautifully together.
Rita: Country Coordinator for Brazil.
When Rita read the book Sharing Nature with Children for the first time, a simple sentence caught her attention: “Don’t feel bad about not knowing names”. As a biologist, she knew many scientific names but felt that naming plants and animals in this way distanced her students from direct, sensitive and profound experience with the natural world. At that moment she understood that she had finally found what she was looking for: a simple, practical and inspiring approach to experiential environmental education.
Since then she engaged both in practices with her groups and in the translation of Sharing Nature with Children and Sharing the Joy of Nature. When she invited Joseph to come to Brazil for the book launch in 1996, he invited her to coordinate Sharing Nature activities in her country.
Initially, she was concerned with proposing Sharing Nature Experience programs as an educator, and in 2004 she formed the “Instituto Romã of Nature Experiences”, which today offers several programs that include Sharing Nature in addition to the Sharing Nature training, where participants learn how to practice Flow Learning with their groups.
These programs have already taken place in almost all Brazilian states, in addition to courses that have been held in Argentina and Venezuela. The Romã Institute produced a new translation of Joseph Cornell's books in 2005 and 2008, which are currently circulating throughout the country. She and her team invited Joseph to come to Brazil twice more, in 1999 and in 2006.
Rita wrote 5 books on various topics related to philosophies of Nature, based on her interest in stimulating in-depth reflections after a period of direct experiences with Nature based on Sharing Nature. Besides her activities in Sharing Nature Programs she is an Associate Professor at Escola Schumacher Brazil and coordinator of the graduate course “The Nature We Are.”
Degrees: Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences, Specialization in Environmental Planning, Master's Degree in Sociology of Development
Rita is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French. Rita is available to travel and give programs.
Contact: [email protected]
Since then she engaged both in practices with her groups and in the translation of Sharing Nature with Children and Sharing the Joy of Nature. When she invited Joseph to come to Brazil for the book launch in 1996, he invited her to coordinate Sharing Nature activities in her country.
Initially, she was concerned with proposing Sharing Nature Experience programs as an educator, and in 2004 she formed the “Instituto Romã of Nature Experiences”, which today offers several programs that include Sharing Nature in addition to the Sharing Nature training, where participants learn how to practice Flow Learning with their groups.
These programs have already taken place in almost all Brazilian states, in addition to courses that have been held in Argentina and Venezuela. The Romã Institute produced a new translation of Joseph Cornell's books in 2005 and 2008, which are currently circulating throughout the country. She and her team invited Joseph to come to Brazil twice more, in 1999 and in 2006.
Rita wrote 5 books on various topics related to philosophies of Nature, based on her interest in stimulating in-depth reflections after a period of direct experiences with Nature based on Sharing Nature. Besides her activities in Sharing Nature Programs she is an Associate Professor at Escola Schumacher Brazil and coordinator of the graduate course “The Nature We Are.”
Degrees: Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences, Specialization in Environmental Planning, Master's Degree in Sociology of Development
Rita is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French. Rita is available to travel and give programs.
Contact: [email protected]
Camila: Country Coordinator for Chile.
Camila is an Environmental Educator, certificated by North Wales Outdoor Learning, UK. Currently she runs the Chaski Escuela in which she seeks to bring people closer to nature. Working as an environmental educator on a variety of projects, she trains preschool educators in outdoor learning methodologies and sustainability.
Camila found Sharing Nature in 2021 when she began searching for outdoor environmental education initiatives. After discovering Joseph Cornell’s book, Sharing Nature, she began to incorporate these engaging nature activities in her outdoor education programs. She took her first Sharing Nature course with Brazil’s Country Coordinator, Rita Mendonca in 2022, and then went to Patagonia Argentina to take the in person course. There, two full days of Sharing Nature and Flow Learning transformed her experience into a more dynamic way of living environmental education. Camila was always a nature sensitive, but the Sharing Nature activities and philosophy opened her to an even deeper experience.
Camila’s Chaski project promotes the rights of children to live in a healthy and clean environment, the right to free play, movement and rest, and to encourage imagination.
Camila holds a Masters in Eco-regional Development in International Cooperation University from Costa Rica. She is a member of the research Center for Early Childhood and Public Policies through the Department of Education, Universidad de Chile.
Other Positions: Coordinator for Vice Versa Project of the Green Please for Kids Foundation; Specialist at the Spain-Peru Accessibility Institute; Certified by Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute of Guatemala.
Camila speaks Spanish, French, English and Portuguese, and is available to travel and give programs.
Contact: [email protected]
Camila found Sharing Nature in 2021 when she began searching for outdoor environmental education initiatives. After discovering Joseph Cornell’s book, Sharing Nature, she began to incorporate these engaging nature activities in her outdoor education programs. She took her first Sharing Nature course with Brazil’s Country Coordinator, Rita Mendonca in 2022, and then went to Patagonia Argentina to take the in person course. There, two full days of Sharing Nature and Flow Learning transformed her experience into a more dynamic way of living environmental education. Camila was always a nature sensitive, but the Sharing Nature activities and philosophy opened her to an even deeper experience.
Camila’s Chaski project promotes the rights of children to live in a healthy and clean environment, the right to free play, movement and rest, and to encourage imagination.
Camila holds a Masters in Eco-regional Development in International Cooperation University from Costa Rica. She is a member of the research Center for Early Childhood and Public Policies through the Department of Education, Universidad de Chile.
Other Positions: Coordinator for Vice Versa Project of the Green Please for Kids Foundation; Specialist at the Spain-Peru Accessibility Institute; Certified by Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute of Guatemala.
Camila speaks Spanish, French, English and Portuguese, and is available to travel and give programs.
Contact: [email protected]