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Thank you for your interest in getting involved with Nature Rx at Michigan! We have many ways you might want to be involved: as an individual, as a group, as a unit or department, and then if you're really interested, consider joining one of our action teams!
Nature Rx Action Teams
Nature Rx Action Teams
Events & Engagement
Organize and oversee Nature Rx events, managing logistics like venues, volunteers, and communications to ensure everything runs smoothly and reflects the group’s core mission.
Develop promotional materials and outreach strategies, enhancing your professional skills while engaging the campus community in Nature Rx initiatives.
Michigan App
Create innovative improvements to the Nature Rx App and continuously aligns the missions of the app's with Nature Rx.
Promote outreach and engagement with the Nature Rx App identifying relevant communications that spike the Nature Rx dashboard.
Research
Collaborate with campus partners and external stakeholders to align Nature Rx’s research objectives with institutional and community goals.
Support the development of impactful research strategies and priorities, ensuring studies remain relevant and advance Nature Rx’s mission.
Volunteer Support
Expand the Nature Rx team by identifying recruitment opportunities, onboarding new volunteers, and providing clear training materials and resources.
Foster a collaborative environment by encouraging feedback and addressing volunteer questions and suggestions to strengthen engagement.
Individuals
Individuals
Try taking self-guided activities such as nature walks, photography, mindful exercises, drawing, or journaling.
Use the Nature Rx app to find different nature spots near your office or dorm room.
Make yourself a challenge such as visiting 3 new green spaces in the Nature Rx app a month.
Use the Nature Rx photo album to include different nature images into your office space or dorm room.
Groups
Groups
Incorporate nature into your meetings and activities such as walking meetings or outdoor study sessions.
Request a Nature Rx facilitator to lead a group nature outing. We offer guided nature experiences, and we can tailor them to your group.
Giving a presentation? Consider using some of our slides that talk about the healing benefits of nature.
Check out the below marketing kit for other materials you can use!
Units/Departments
Units/Departments
Work with Nature Rx Project Team members to create custom trainings and workshops.
Bring Nature Rx into wellness programming, curriculum, and staff engagement.
Create built-in nature time for the unit. For example, every Thursday from 12-12:30pm becomes nature time!
Become a sponsor of Nature Rx. Help fund different projects and ideas that will profoundly support environmental and human well-being.
Marketing Kit
Marketing Kit
Are you interested in helping promote Nature Rx in your area of U-M? Please consider sharing the below materials with others that you think would benefit from taking a break in nature!
Only have 10 minutes to help? That's fine, please consider printing this flyer and posting it on bulletin boards around your neck of the woods.
This Nature Rx Information Sheet is a good hand out as an overview of the Nature Rx project.
Do you want to hang a sign in your breakroom? This might be the one for you!
If you have a larger presentation that you want to put just one Nature Rx slide into this would be a good file to use.
Are you giving a presentation to your department? Please consider using this to promote wellness in nature!
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