The Summer Sense of Place Experience
Develop a Deeper Sense of Place Wherever You Are
through writing, research, reflection and awareness
July 16–17 • 12:00–4:00 PM ET Both Days | Online
Join us for a two-day immersive experience to learn how deeper connections to place can enrich your life, your work and your perspective.
Carve out some time for you and your muse.
Over two days, I'll guide you through a sense of place process designed to help you develop a deeper relationship with that place and uncover the stories, ideas, meaning, and creative material it holds.
Through sensory awareness, memory, research, reflection, conversation, and writing, you'll learn how to move beyond surface connections and begin discovering what a place deeply means to you. You’ll explore why it matters, and what it may be asking you to create, develop and share.
This is practical and creative work. You’ll learn how to work with place as a source of stories, ideas, meaning, creativity, and connection that can deepen your work, your creative practice, or your everyday life.
This Experience Is For
Writers, creatives, interpreters, educators, community storytellers, and thoughtful people who want to work with place in a more meaningful way.
You do not need a defined project. You do not need to think of yourself as a writer or creative.
You only need a place that has called for your attention and a willingness to spend time with it.
During Our Time Together You Will Experience
Developing a sense of place through observation, memory, and reflection
Exploring stories, questions, and themes connected to a place
Uncovering ideas through with writing, conversation, and research
Small-group discussion and guided exercises
Identifying what wants further attention and development
The Journey
You might arrive with a specific place in mind to work with, a story you want to develop, a project you are developing, or simply a question you want to explore.
The only requirement to connect with a place, from your past or present, that has called for your attention.
You’ll Leave With:
A deeper relationship to your place and yourself
A clearer understanding of the layers of time and story
A collection of writings, reflections and experiences about your place
A way of working that can continue generating stories, insight, meaning, and creative work long after this experience ends.
What You'll Learn
How to uncover stories, ideas, and questions that deepen your understanding of a place
How shape what you have uncovered into a story, essay, song, project and whatever you want to create
How to deepen your ongoing connections with places from your past or present
What You'll Leave With
* Repeatable practices for developing a deeper relationship with a place that matters to you
* New stories, insights, ideas, and creative material
* A clearer understanding of where meaningful stories come from
* A practical process you can continue using in your writing, interpretation, plans and creative work
Register Now for the Summer Sense of Place Experience
July 16 & 17, 12 pm to 4 pm ET both days.
Fee: $600
Includes
8 hrs…
Reflective pre session questions and workbook
Questions? Email Erica
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