Program Aims to Fight Epidemic of Inactivity

3 February 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Nature-Based Children’s Program Aims to Fight Epidemic of Inactivity

New Zealand, February 2016

In a single generation, childhood has fundamentally changed. Days spent rolling down hills and climbing trees have all but vanished; the lure of the screen is taking over. TimberNook, an innovative, nature-based developmental program is designed to combat this growing problem. This autumn, TimberNook will host a limited-space training session for individuals who wish to become TimberNook Providers.

TimberNook Providers have the unique opportunity to make a difference in children’s lives, while simultaneously building a successful business. Using a platform of nature-based programming for all children, TimberNook Providers deliver a curriculum designed to foster creativity, imagination, and independent play in the great outdoors. Unlike most nature programming, TimberNook shifts the focus from how a child can help the environment to how the environment helps a child. Viewed as providing therapeutic benefits for kids, outdoor play helps equip children for success in home and school environments.

“We need passionate individuals to become Providers and share our curriculum throughout New Zealand,” says Wendy Pirie MHSc, TimberNook New Zealand Director. “Nature is the ultimate sensory experience, and without it, we are affecting the health and normal development of our children.”

To-date, TimberNook-certified Providers have opened two camps in New Zealand, Hawkes Bay and Wellington. Each camp is located in a protected territory to ensure no encroachment on potential customers by another Provider in the TimberNook system.
“Due to a variety of parental fears, kids are spending less time using their imagination and playing outside. This needs to change,” says TimberNook founder Angela Hanscom. “TimberNook Providers have the ability to empower children, not by entertaining them, but by stepping back and letting them take risks.”

Individuals, schools, pre-schools and health and wellness clinicians interested in becoming a TimberNook Provider can attend an upcoming week long training session April 18 - 22, in Hawkes Bay. Space is limited. For additional information, visit:http://www.timbernook.com/become-a-provider

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