Rewild your health by spending more time outside walking, exploring and learning about your local environment.

The goal of this challenge is to grow your ecological awareness by learning to identify plants, mushrooms and birds in your local ecosystem on daily mindful awe walks.

You can participate in the challenge in our online community through our website or by our downloading our community app for iPhone and Android app where you can easily upload photos, ask questions and share your experiences. 

Here's how the 30 Day Eco-Mindfulness Challenge works and everything you will receive when you participate in this challenge:

🌲 Week #1: Mindful Walking

Discover the fascinating natural beauty in your own neighbourhood by creating the habit of daily mindful awe walks.

✅ Practice mindful awe walking with a guided audio meditation you download to your smartphone.
✅ Learn the A.W.E. Method for reducing stress and invoking a sense of awe and wonder.

🀄️ The First Week's Challenge:

Go for a walk in the morning sunlight each day and practice mindful awareness of the living world around you and experience with the A.W.E. method.

🌿 Week #2: Plant Identification

Learn to identify common mushrooms growing in your local ecosystem and catalogue them with photos using a citizen science app to start improving your pattern recognition skills.

✅ Download our Edible And Medicinal Plant Identification Guide.
✅ Learn how to catalogue and identify your plant discoveries on your smartphone.

🀄️ The Second Week's Challenge:

Identify at least 5-10 flowing plants as well as edible and medicinal plants that are growing in your local ecosystem.

🍄 Week #3: Mushroom Identification

Learn to identify common mushrooms growing in your local ecosystem and catalogue them using photos and an app on your smartphone to start improving your pattern recognition skills.

✅ Download our Edible And Medicinal Mushroom Identification Guide.
✅ Learn how to catalogue and identify your fungi discoveries on your smartphone.

🀄️ The Third Week's Challenge:

Identify at least 5-10 common mushrooms as well as edible and medicinal mushrooms that are growing in your local ecosystem.

🦉 Week #4 Mindful Birdwatching

Learn to identify the birds living all around you in your local ecosystem and use a free app to identify them by their songs or physical characteristics.

✅ Download our Bird Language And Mindful Birdwatching Guide
✅ Learn how to catalogue and identify your bird discoveries based on their songs using your smartphone.

🀄️ The Fourth Week's Challenge:

Identify at least 5-10 bird species by their songs that are living in your local ecosystem.

At the end of this 30 Day Eco-Mindfulness Challenge, you will have built the mindful habit of spending more time walking, exploring and learning outside each day.

About Animist Ecology:

Our mission is to help people grow their ecological awareness and improve their mental health by spending more time outside walking, exploring and learning about their local environment.

Questions? Email [email protected]