Tell your story
Getting outside connects us to ourselves, to each other, and to the world around us. Rethink Outside with these inspiring stories, collected from organizations across the field.
Have you activated the shared narrative to tell your story? Use this message map as a guide, and share and explore story examples here.
Recent stories
Reclaiming Rights, Land, and a Way of Life
Day by day, Indigenous Regeneration works to reconnect people to each other and the world around them.
Teen Leaders Build a Healthier Community
Access to the outdoors and the building of a healthy community can change everything.
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Strengthens its Community
A treasured neighborhood green space connects people to the outdoors and each other.
Students Step Up to Explore and Create Healthier Communities
A group of Illinois high schoolers from different schools and neighborhoods are fired up to make change.
Youth Education Offers Healing and Hope
Everyone faces stress and setbacks in life but living in a healthy environment within a strong community can make it easier to cope and thrive.
Stereotype or Fact? Black People Don’t Camp
For Black people, feeling welcome and safe in the outdoors isn’t a given.
Equity in Action
When Natasha Coleman was a freshman in high school, her sister connected her to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest Youth Farm program. The experience would change her life.
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Rethink Outside photos courtesy of Big City Mountaineers, Children & Nature Network, Education Outside, Life Lab, Lincoln Park Zoo, NatureBridge, National Park Service, National Park Trust, Ocean Discovery Institute, Pie Ranch, Tiny Trees, and YES. Website by Weirdesign.com.
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