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Noticing
A Conversation with Richard Louv and Sally Jewell
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Doors for this event will open at 6:00 PM.
Presented by Children & Nature Network and REI. For questions about this event, please contact info@childrenandnature.org.
What does it mean to truly notice the world around you? In an age of distraction, ecological anxiety, and accelerating disconnection from the natural world, author Richard Louv invites us to slow down, open our senses, and rediscover the living world just outside our doors.
Join co-hosts Children & Nature Network and REI for an evening with Richard Louv, the internationally bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods, in conversation with Sally Jewell, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and CEO of REI. Rich and Sally will explore the ideas at the heart of Louv’s newest and most personal book, Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World. Together, they’ll discuss what it means to cultivate what Louv calls “bioenchantment”: a deeper, more embodied relationship with the natural world that can restore our sense of wonder, ground our sense of self, and offer hope in a time that sorely needs it.
Drawing on neuroscience, Indigenous traditions, mindfulness, and personal essay, Noticing reveals how humans can tap into their sense to experience the natural world in ways most of us have never imagined. It is, as one reviewer Carl Safina, author of Alfie and Me, put it, “a how-to manual for getting back your soul.” This conversation promises to be equally rich — a rare meeting of two of the most trusted voices in the nature movement who have spent their careers building the bridges between people, nature, and the future we all share.
The evening will include a moderated conversation, audience Q&A, and book signing.
This event will appeal to readers and thinkers drawn to the intersection of nature, science, culture, and wellbeing — including educators, health professionals, conservationists, parents, and anyone who has ever stood still in a forest and felt something shift. Audiences can expect a warm, substantive, and wide-ranging conversation that moves between the deeply personal and the broadly urgent: what it means to be human, to pay attention, and to find our way back to the living world.
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About the Speakers
Richard Louv is a journalist and the author of ten books, including the international bestseller Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, which helped ignite a global movement to reconnect children and families with the natural world. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and in 2008 he was awarded the Audubon Medal — an honor previously bestowed on Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson, President Jimmy Carter, and Sir David Attenborough. Louv has written for the New York Times, Outside, Orion, and many other publications, and lectures throughout the world. He is co-founder and chair emeritus of the Children & Nature Network. His new book, Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World, is his most personal work yet — a sensory, spiritual, and scientific guide to experiencing the otherworlds that surround us every day.
Sally Jewell is one of the Pacific Northwest’s most distinguished public servants and civic leaders. She served as President and CEO of REI, where she joined as Chief Operating Officer in 2000 and was named CEO in 2005, growing the cooperative to a $2 billion business before being appointed U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 2013 to 2017, where she was recognized for a science-based, landscape-level, collaborative approach to natural resources management. Throughout her career, Jewell has been deeply committed to connecting people to nature, particularly youth, championing efforts that encouraged tens of millions of young people to play, learn, serve, and work on public lands. She has served on the boards of Costco, Symetra Financial, Green Diamond Resource Company, and The Nature Conservancy, where she served as Interim CEO, and has been appointed to the Edward V. Fritzky Endowed Chair in Leadership at the UW Foster School of Business. An avid outdoorswoman and lifelong Washingtonian, Jewell is also one of the contributors of an advance praise blurb for Noticing, writing that Louv’s work shows “how deep noticing can reawaken our senses and renew our bond with nature.”
About the Children & Nature Network
The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that all children — regardless of where they live — have regular opportunities to experience the benefits of nature. Founded by Richard Louv and colleagues in the wake of Last Child in the Woods, C&NN works at the systems level to build nature-rich communities, support green schoolyards, advance policy, and equip a growing movement of parents, educators, health professionals, and civic leaders. C&NN’s current ten-year Strategic Framework aims to create nature-rich childhoods for 20 million young people across the United States.
About REI
REI is a specialty outdoor retailer, headquartered near Seattle. The nation’s largest consumer co-op, REI is a growing community of 25 million members who expect and love the best quality gear and outstanding customer service. In addition to the co-op’s many stores across the country, outdoor enthusiasts can shop at REI.com, REI Outlet or the REI shopping app. Everyone is welcome to shop REI, but members who join the co-op enjoy a range of benefits. REI is a purpose-driven and values-led company dedicated to enabling life outside for all.
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