Writing from Nature Series
A series of four workshops that can be taken individually or as a series. These workshops are designed to focus on nature to bring new energy to your writing practice.
In the second of these 75-minute session on September 15th, you will reflect on a species or aspect of the natural world and write a story of resilience and transformation.
Session titles: “The Ways Nature Thrives” (July), “Change Is in the Air” (September), “Tracking Motion and Emotion” (December), “More Light” (March)
Information about other sessions in the “Additional Info” section visible from your cart.
A series of four workshops that can be taken individually or as a series. These workshops are designed to focus on nature to bring new energy to your writing practice.
In the second of these 75-minute session on September 15th, you will reflect on a species or aspect of the natural world and write a story of resilience and transformation.
Session titles: “The Ways Nature Thrives” (July), “Change Is in the Air” (September), “Tracking Motion and Emotion” (December), “More Light” (March)
Information about other sessions in the “Additional Info” section visible from your cart.
A series of four workshops that can be taken individually or as a series. These workshops are designed to focus on nature to bring new energy to your writing practice.
In the second of these 75-minute session on September 15th, you will reflect on a species or aspect of the natural world and write a story of resilience and transformation.
Session titles: “The Ways Nature Thrives” (July), “Change Is in the Air” (September), “Tracking Motion and Emotion” (December), “More Light” (March)
Information about other sessions in the “Additional Info” section visible from your cart.
JULY SESSION
"The Ways Nature Thrives"
This first session will include reflective writing invitations that help us to be mindful of our close relationships with nature, as well as creative writing instructions for lyrically expressing how you experience thriving in a natural setting. You will write a lyrical, nature-inspired piece to be offered as a gift to an important person in your life. We will conclude with an opportunity to share poems with fellow participants.SEPTEMBER SESSION
"Change Is in the Air"
In the September edition of this series, we will spend a little time outside in the full sensory experience of autumn. As we focus on our senses to take in the world around us, we will allow ourselves to savor any aspect of our ecosystem we find particularly nourishing or awe-inspiring. We will then reflect on an individual species undergoing a substantial change in its life patterns. We’ll also explore ways to let close observation of this species both stand on its own as an honoring of a more-than-human inhabitant of the planet, as well as stand for an aspect of human life that we might see in a fresh way, possibly even as navigating a cyclical pattern of change and return.
DECEMBER SESSION
"Tracking Motion and Emotion"
For the December edition of this online series, we will consider a place that we have seen or heard of as having regenerated in a remarkable way. Then we’ll tell the story of a transformative journey in our life or witnessed in another life and explore what signs are left on a place because of this passage. We will think carefully about a particular person who might resonate with this story, and we will write directly to that person. In doing so we will reflect on how the unique ways we speak to individuals with whom we speak intimately might inform how we invite unfamiliar readers into our world.
MARCH SESSION
"More Light"
And in the final edition of this series of workshops, we will celebrate the turn back toward longer days by exploring our own gratitude and joy in connection with nature from multiple perspectives. Once we have generated a vibrant collection of images and observations from the natural world, we’ll have some fun playing with extending lines and sentences as long as we can hold them together, and through this we’ll think about the resilience of the written word to hold our thoughts and feelings.