“If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.” Wendell Berry

Sense of Place Consulting is grounded in the philosophy that personal stories about connections to place are a powerful catalyst for well-being, belonging, inclusion, and stewardship.

Through interpretive training, writing classes, keynotes, and community engagement events, I provide tailored experiences that bring to life the philosophy that stories evoke caring. By learning about places in different ways and experiencing them through our senses, we can hear the stories places have to tell.

By inspiring people to forge bonds with the places they visit, live, work, and play, we can help people, and places thrive.

Learn more about my approach here.

About Sense of Place Consulting and Erica Wheeler

The Sense of Place and Story Framework provides a sequence of tools and techniques to enrich your personal or professional work, be that creating tours for visitors, taking action on a conservation project, or writing stories and poems that inspire others and keep yourself inspired.

This work helps people foster deeper relationships between themselves, history, culture, nature, and place. My process has been honed through working with thousands of interpreters, historians, naturalists, educators, creatives and soul-seekers over the past two decades.

I bring a blend of expertise and experience to this work, from my background in the performing arts and the creative process to my expertise in interpretation, storytelling, visitor engagement techniques and innovative program design.

I believe that everyone has stories of place and belonging, waiting to be remembered and revealed. Let’s find yours.

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