Nature, People and Place: Exploring multiple dimensions of human and nature relationships

Our relationships with nature and Country are diverse and deeply connected to how we experience place, wellbeing, belonging and the world around us. By exploring how people connect with nature, what they value in those experiences, and how these connections vary across people and places, we can gain powerful insights into what helps communities and environments thrive.

Mosaic Insights invites you to join us for a webinar bringing together voices from social science, community and creative practice, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge, to explore the many ways people understand, experience and relate to nature and Country and what these different perspectives can teach us about human–nature relationships and their implications for wellbeing, social cohesion, conservation behaviour, climate, and health.

Among these contributions, we will be presenting inaugral findings from the Nature, People and Place Index (NPPI), a new national longitudinal survey exploring how Australians connect with nature and the value they place on those experiences.

Speakers:

• Dr Esther Onyango, Mosaic Insights: Facilitator
• Dr Matthew Selinske, Mosaic Insights, presenting: Mosaic Insights’ Nature, People and Place Index.
• Dr Emily Flies, University of Tasmania, presenting: “A nature connected future in Australia”
• Dr Nerkez Opacin, University of Melbourne, presenting: “Nature-based social prescribing, connection, and belonging”
• Dr Chloe Watfern, University of NSW, presenting: “Honouring ecological emotions”
• Joshua Waters, Deakin University, presenting: “Understanding Indigenous connections to Nature, Land, Sea and Sky”