Connect with joy and wonder through nature journaling. Guided by Andrea Salazar, Bilingual Environmental Education Specialist.
Step into the landscape with curiosity, attention, and a willingness to slow down. This nature journaling gathering invites participants to deepen their relationship with the natural world through observation and presence. Together, we’ll wander through the preserve at an unhurried pace, noticing small details — the shape of a leaf, shifting light through branches, birdsong carried on the wind, the textures and colors of the season unfolding around us.
Along the way, we’ll pause to reflect in our journals, using simple creative practices to explore connection with place. This is not about artistic skill or creating something polished. Nature journaling is an act of attention — a way of listening, noticing, and forming a relationship with the living world. Whether your pages are filled with messy watercolor washes, fingerprints of color, half-finished sketches, or a few quiet words, the process itself is the invitation.
This walk encourages playful experimentation and freedom from perfection. You do not need to be “good at art” to participate. In fact, the beauty of nature journaling often lives in the imperfect, the expressive, and the honest marks we make while fully present with our surroundings.
Together, we’ll create space for observation, wonder, and connection — not only with nature, but with ourselves and one another. Whether you are an experienced artist, an avid naturalist, or simply someone longing to spend meaningful time outdoors, this experience offers an opportunity to slow down, pay attention, and rediscover the joy of seeing the world with fresh eyes.
About Andrea Salazar, Bilingual Environmental Education Specialist:
She is a passionate and motivated Indigenous ecologist, excited to make waves and bring solutions to the environmental and climate change action worlds. Trained as a natural resource and forestry scientist, the backbone of her motivation is envisioning and actualizing a future with resilient landscapes and communities.
Andrea earned her bachelor’s degree in ecosystem management and forestry and a minor in ethnic studies from UC Berkeley. While studying, she participated in multiple professional and extracurricular programs, gaining years of experience in community engagement with and for BIPOC communities, emphasizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Her experience spans an array of knowledge, such as ecology, natural resource management, community-oriented agroecology, wildlife ecology, fire ecology, Indigenous science(s) and knowledge(s), community engagement and activism, climate change, and holistic healing.
