Mark Berman
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We wanted all of their attention to be captured by this interesting stimulation in nature and for people not to be distracted.
People often ask me, well, what about earbuds if I'm listening to a podcast or music?
You want to be able to hear all the sounds of nature as well, and you want all of your attentional capacity to be able to be captured by the interesting stimulation in nature.
I think there's a lot of truth to what Lisa is saying.
And actually I have a student, former student, Kate Schertz, who's looking at couples who might be having an argument.
And if they try to talk through their conflict in nature,
Like on a nature walk, that yields better benefits than trying to talk through their conflict or their issues in a more urban environment or in an office setting.
So it's possible that you might have a more productive meeting walking in nature than you would in an office setting.
Why not try to do that on a walk in nature?
Yeah, so he was, this is a story that repeats itself.
He has a lot of energy and, you know, we're not anti-technology.
You know, we let him do some things on an iPad, but we try to monitor that he doesn't spend too much time on it.
And he was just, you know, he wasn't listening very well.
irritable and impatient and i just said you know enough is enough we're gonna go on the burnhamthorpe trail which is you know very close to our house and we're just gonna walk over there and he was very resistant to doing it but i got his boots on uh i got his jacket on and we went and we probably spent about two hours
outside you know we found some snakes which was really interesting we looked at some rocks by the creek we walked around on some trails and his mood and his attention you could just see how much it was improving with every minute that we were out there at my son's school
They used to have a longer recess that was 45 minutes where they could go outside for 45 minutes and kind of do whatever they want.