Having the skills to communicate what you care about and why is a core competency for making a difference in the world.
Erica’s powerful framework helps youth discover, define, and express their individual sense-of-place stories. From personal stories comes connection and caring, which can lead to stewardship actions.
✓ Experience a process that helps to gain a sense of place and belonging anywhere.
✓ Integrate academic knowledge with personal experience.
✓ Explore why having a sense of place inspires stewardship and sustainability.
✓ Bridge studies in the creative arts, history, natural history and social science
Includes presentation, hands-on interactive experiences and collaborative work. Customized for all age groups
Work with Erica in-the-field or in the classroom.
Nurture the Next Generation
Everyone has stories of belonging.
Help youth find their links to their community through uncovering connections between nature, history, self and place.
These programs help youth find their personal/place stories wherever they are.
““I will use what I have gained to continue making connections in my community and initiating a positive change.”
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Youth Leadership
Uncover what you care about and why.
Experience a process to discover, define and express personal sense-of-place stories.
Gain a sense of community and belonging through shared experiences.
Work collaboratively to create songs, stories, performances and more.
Helping youth and educators find their stories and make a difference in their lives and their communities.
From Story to
Stewardship
Because facts change minds, and stories change hearts. We need both.
Learn the art of story craft that helps people and places thrive. Use your voice to make a difference and inspire change while keeping yourself recharged.
““She helped [students] bring together all their ways of knowing, so they could better understand their relationship to place.”
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Professional Development for Educators
From the “Approaching Walden” Seminar at the Thoreau Institute, Lincoln, MA
Erica has been an annual presenter at professional development seminars for educators, from the Walden Woods Project “Approaching Walden” Seminar to educators at the Teton Science School. Her customized programs help educators recharge their connection to themselves and their work, and gain practical tools they can apply to the classroom right away.
Reimagine your curriculum while getting a personal and professional recharge.
"With its emphasis on integrating writing, music, and a sense of place, Erica's workshop was incredibly inspiring... [She] gave us all an invaluable opportunity to reflect on our connections to the land, our personal history, and our best selves." "With its emphasis on integrating writing, music, and a sense of place, Erica's workshop was incredibly inspiring... [She] gave us all an invaluable opportunity to reflect on our connections to the land, our personal history, and our best selves." Faculty Director, University of Vermont, VT
Prior Conferences and Seminars for Educators
Georgia Environmental Educators Conference
Massachusetts Environmental Education Society
New England Environmental Education Alliance
The Murie Center
Teton Science School
Prior Youth and Academic Programs:
Youth Leadership
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Trustees of Reservations
World Wide Walden Youth Summit, The Walden Woods Project
Wyoming Youth Congress on Children and Nature
Young Writers and Artists Festival, Hathaway Brown School
Youth Conservation Corps
Youth Leadership Academy, New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park
Academic
Undergraduate & Graduate
Antioch New England Graduate School, NH (Seminar)
Mount Holyoke College Center for the Environment
Paul Smiths College
Sterling College
Teton Science School
Washington University
K- 12
All Saints' Episcopal Day School
Four Rivers Charter School
Journeys School
Sterling Community School,
Thoreau Institute
““We learned valuable lessons about writing and poetry. I now feel inspired to write about things like nature. I truly appreciate the landscape around us.””