Thrive and health benefits of walking
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Thrive – Climate Change – Storytelling – Environment – Place-making – Innovation – Resources
Text and drawings by Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org
Today more and more people are using hiking as a way to help change, recovery, stress-reduction and even better work to facilitate better meetings. In this section it is the health, thrive, well-being and other psychological and physical benefits to the hikers that are in focus in my drawings

Communities and hiking
Drawing up thoughts and perspectives on communities and groups

Old hiker taking a break
Drawing of a wind beaten hiker sitting down for a moment along the coast

Teaching kids outdoors
Teaching kids outdoors helps them understand, move and be more happy. Connecting to nature, instead of screens.

Psychology and ways of crossing a stream
Hiking can teach us new things about our strategies, roles and preferences.

Giving a hand to science
drawing of people who want to help scientist alone in his research boat under difficult circumstances

Facts of a bigger picture
We will often be able to gain better understandings from more perspectives when sharing our knowledge

Motivation gap
Drawing up the gap between and factors influencing what we want to do, and if we actually make the jump and walk the talk