Engage Your Community

Sense of Place Concerts, Keynotes, Workshops, and Walks

Experiences rooted in story, connection, and place.

Erica offers creative, curated community programs that help people pause, reconnect, and rediscover deeper connections—with themselves, with one another, and with the places they care about.

Through story, reflection, music, and guided experiences, she creates customized programs that bring your mission and your places to life.

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Why This Work Matters

These programs help communities rediscover a shared sense of identity and belonging—finding deeper individual and collective meaning in the local history, natural world, and heritage that surrounds them.

They are especially resonant during challenging times, when people are seeking connection, reflection, and renewal.

Customized Programs That Align With Your Mission

Erica’s work naturally aligns with mission-driven initiatives focused on community connection, cultural preservation, and place-based engagement. These experiences can also provide a meaningful way to gather stories from your community about place, connection, and meaning.

Whether your organization focuses on heritage preservation, conservation, education, or community well-being, these programs support key funding priorities:

  • Place-based storytelling and cultural preservation

  • Community-driven stewardship and engagement

  • Intergenerational programs promoting belonging

  • Youth leadership development grounded in place and identity

“Particularly well suited for land trusts and other conservation organizations, as her art is intimately tied to the landscape and the sense of identity people derive from their surroundings.”
— Leigh Youngblood, Executive Director,
Mount Grace Land Trust, MA

Choose An Experience to Offer Your Community

Sense of Place Concerts

Curated journeys through song, story, and conversation, researched and crafted for your location and occasion. These concerts create shared moments of presence and connection, helping people feel rooted in place and with one another.

Writing Workshops

A sequence of writing prompts that helps participants tap into stories of place, memory, and meaning. These workshops invite participants to uncover and share their own stories, building reflection, insight, and connection.

Sense of Place Walks & Saunters

Guided walks with songs, readings, and invitations for reflection and conversation. These experiences help people notice what’s often overlooked, fostering deeper appreciation for familiar places.

Additional Offerings

Keynotes, youth leadership seminars, academic programs, and training for crafting sense of place narratives—designed to support learning, leadership, and long-term impact.

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These programs are tailored to each organization’s vision for their event. Pricing reflects the depth of preparation and customization involved.

What Organizations Gain

  • A sense of authentic engagement that strengthens relationships with members and partners—and fosters a heartfelt sense of commitment

  • Increased visibility through experiences that make your mission felt, not just understood

  • Opportunities to hear and gather personal stories from participants about place, connection, meaning, and what they care about most

  • Skillfully designed experiences that are professionally delivered and aligned with your values

  • Lasting community impact to carry forward, build on, and share

What Participants Gain

  • A personal connection to place, discovered through their own senses and stories

  • A sense of community through shared moments that create collective experiences

  • A fresh perspective on familiar landscapes, places, story, and heritage

  • Creative ideas generated through conversation, reflection, and writing

  • A felt sense of caring emerging from personal experiences and connections

  • A renewed sense of self, place, community, and belonging


“We invited Erica out for a week to help celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Big Sur Land Trust with a variety of events. Her positive impact reverberated throughout our community and continues to this day. Erica’s ability to connect people and place beautifully aligned with our mission to strengthen communities and inspire stewardship.”
— Bill Leahy, Executive Director, Big Sur Land Trust, CA

Partnerships and Collaborations

Erica has partnered with mission-driven organizations nationwide, supporting grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to National Park Service engagement programs—bringing her sense of place approach to communities, conservation initiatives, and cultural programs.

Selected partnerships include:

National Endowment for the Arts – Community workshops, concerts, NEA Big Read programs

Smithsonian Affiliate Programs – Customized sense of place keynotes and writing workshops

National Park Service sites – Public programs, celebrations, and community engagement

National and regional land trusts – Trust for Public Land, Big Sur Land Trust, Land Trust Alliance

Youth programs – Wyoming Youth Congress on Children and Nature, New Bedford Youth Leadership Academy, The Trustees

Educator Trainings- Approaching Walden, Promise of Place, Environmental Educator Conferences

Let’s Collaborate

Whether you’re thinking about booking a program or just imagining what this could look like for your community, the next step is to start the conversation.

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