Calendar of Events
NAI : Sense of Place Story Intensive (Online)
Sense of Place Story Intensive
This workshop helps participants transform site knowledge into meaningful Sense of Place Stories they can share with visitors. Working with their own site material throughout the training, participants experience a practical process for viewing a resource through the layers of time, story, and perspective it holds. They explore places, objects, and histories through personal, cultural, historical, and natural lenses, uncovering new story possibilities, shaping ideas into concise, thematic stories, and crafting experiences that help visitors discover their own meanings and connections.
2026 AASLH & NCPH JOINT CONFERENCE
2026 America Association of State and Local History and the National Council on Public History Joint Conference: The Work of Revolution, Providence, RI
Session Title: From Resource to Resonance: Crafting Impactful Visitor Experiences.
https://aaslh.org/annualconference/2026-annual-conference/
Sense of Place Deep Dive Experience
Explore a place that matters to you in this two-day online immersive Sense of Place workshop. Discover stories, meaning, and creative insights through a guided framework.
Vision Board in a Box Workshop
Join me at the Rowe, MA Library for a Vision Board in a Box workshop.
Pause, reflect, and imagine what you’d like to carry forward into the year ahead. Create a beautiful box designed to hold your dreams and intentions—and help you stay focused on what you want to create in your life.
This fun, creative experience invites you to reflect on where you are in your life right now and gain clarity about where you’d like to go next. Using a reflective workbook and hands-on materials, you’ll create a Vision Box: a visual map of your inner and outer intentions for your life now.
After reflecting on where we’ve been and where we want to go, we’ll create our boxes using magazine images, prompts, and simple art supplies. The experience is reflective, fun, and soulful.
Includes:
• A guided workbook with prompts
• Supplies for cutting and pasting images
• A box for your vision project
Feel free to bring extra magazines to use and share if you’d like.
Registration:
Please pre-register with the Rowe Library by phone (413) 339-4761, email [email protected], or by stopping by in person.
✨ Limited to 12 participants. Reserve your spot!
Sense of Place and the Art of Interpretation Training (NAI)
Course Registration
Sense of Place and the Art of Interpretation
Tuesdays, September 9-October 14, 2025
11:00 am-2:00 pm Pacific/2:00–5:00 pm Eastern
Plus, 2 additional open office hours (time TBD)
Instructor: Erica Wheeler, Sense of Place Consulting
NAI CE Credits: 18
About the Workshop
A strong sense of place narrative grounds your work in relevance and meaning, and is at the heart of powerful interpretation. This course will help you recharge your skills and rethink your interpretive approach through a dynamic blend of narrative skill-building, creativity, and hands-on practices.
During this six-week, 18-hour course, you’ll engage in creative strategies for designing well-balanced experiences and deepen your ability to connect people to place. Through discussions, implementation activities, and small group work, you'll build a personalized toolkit and leave with a ready-to-use interpretive program that reflects your renewed perspective.
Catamount Hill Association Gathering
35th Quinquennial Reunion
150 years!
Celebrating 150 years of gathering!
A keynote journey of song, story and conversation celebrating Catamount Hill of Yesterday and Today.
Blossom: A Creative Writing Breakthrough Retreat (Online)
A Creative Writing Breakthrough Retreat
A full day of writing, reflection, creativity and community. Explore whatever is emerging in your writing and your life. Experience Erica's "power hour" writing breakthrough process. Use the energy of spring to kick-start your writing or your next step in life.
Interpretation Canada National Conference 2023 (ONLINE)
Some interpretive trainings offer formulaic techniques for participants to implement afterwards. Erica offers a collaborative development segment in her Sense of Place and the Art of Interpretation trainings which helps interpreters apply what they have gained. This session will provide case studies from sites across North America that have used her approach to think outside the box, experiment with techniques, and generate ideas and apply to create new programs or refresh current offerings.
