🟠 Module 1: Celebrating Self

Building confidence, comfort, and body appreciation through lived experience

🎯 Module Overview

This foundational module focuses on helping students understand, accept, and feel comfortable in their own bodies — through guided reflection, age-appropriate discussion, and optional experiential practice.

It encourages students to step into body neutrality and self-respect, not through theory alone, but through safe, structured exposure to non-sexual naturist principles, starting with Levels 1 & 2 of NRE’s 11 Levels framework.

This version includes optional activities involving minimal clothing in supervised, consent-based environments.

🌿 Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Name aspects of their body they appreciate — based on function, not appearance

• Understand that body diversity is normal

• Describe how grounding and nature affect their self-perception

• Participate in optional self-awareness practices involving barefooting, light clothing, or guided exposure

🧠 Core Topics

• What makes a body yours, not wrong

• Function over looks — “My body lets me ___”

• Destigmatizing bare skin through comfort-based activities

• Beginning to identify how body shame is learned — and how it can be unlearned

🦶Naturist Levels Introduced

• Level 1 – The Grounded One:
  Seated (fully clothed), hands or feet touching the earth. Breathing in stillness.

  “You are here. Your body is your home.”

• Level 2 – The Barefoot Seeker:
  Walking barefoot on grass, mats, textured trays. Focusing on sensation instead of judgment.

  “Feel the Earth — not how you look, but how you are.”

• Level 3 – The Light Walker (Optional):
  Supervised session where students may remove shoes and outer layers (e.g. jackets, socks, even shirt if comfortable)

  “What happens when you let air touch more of your skin?”
  “What do you feel — not what others see?”

✏️ Suggested Activities

• Self-Body Map:
  Students draw or outline themselves and label 3 things their body does that make them proud
  (e.g. “My legs help me dance,” “My hands help me draw”)

• Comfort Zone Reflection:
  Students anonymously mark a worksheet showing where they feel most/least comfortable (fully clothed, barefoot, etc.)
  → Discuss how these comfort zones shift over time and how exposure helps

• Minimal Attire Mindfulness (Optional):
  In a locked classroom or privacy-controlled space, students may participate in a guided grounding activity wearing gym wear or underwear
  Always fully opt-in, with quiet music, mats, and optional eye-masks

  “Focus on your breath. Your body is still. Nothing is expected. You are simply here.”

📖 Sam & Sam Storybook (Open-Minded Version)

“Skin is our first language”
A group of children explore how every body is different — tall, short, round, thin, light, dark — and how skin isn’t something to be hidden, but something to be understood and respected. The story introduces the idea that our skin tells stories — from freckles and scars to wrinkles and tans — and it's nothing to be ashamed of.
Core Message: “Every skin tells a story. Let’s listen, not judge.”

📥 Download Storybook – Open-Minded Version (PDF)

🎓 Optional Assessment

• Body Confidence Tracker (Confidential):
  “Before the activity, I felt…” → “After the activity, I feel…”
  → Focus on feelings, not appearance

• Group Creation – “This Body Can…” Wall:
  Students contribute hand-written cards:
  “This body can laugh.” “This body can climb.” “This body can rest.”

• Personal Reflection Sheet:

  “One thing I noticed about my body today was…”
  “I used to feel ___, now I feel ___.”

🧍‍♂️ Note for Educators

The first optional disrobing activity often generates giggles or nervousness — but also powerful shifts.
Set clear ground rules:

• No comments about bodies

• No comparisons

• No cameras or devices

• Opt-out at any time, no explanation needed

Let students own the experience. Normalize it. Guide without judgment.
The goal isn’t exposure — it’s acceptance.