Erica Wheeler
Hello and Welcome!

So glad you stopped by.

You might know me as a singer/songwriter, or maybe you've seen me teach or speak at an event.

I combine my career as a performer with my background in environmental studies to offer programs that help individuals, communities and organizations discover, enrich and celebrate their 'sense of place'.


These programs help people reconnect with the places that matter to them, so they can enjoy places more today and protect them for future generations.


Offering :
Performances
Keynotes
Workshops
Trainings
Retreats
CD's and other supportive tools....

to help you and your community discover, celebrate and enrich your 'sense of place.'



What if ?

We celebrated our 'sense of place' more often?

We could easily inspire others to care about the places we love?

We didn't have to struggle to protect our natural, cultural and historic places?

We didn't have to defend the value of places in peoples lives?

What would the impact be in your life, your community and beyond?


"In the hour she spoke and sang for us, she had all of us in the room reconnected to the land, to our special memories, and to our passion for the work." Lee Hayes, Vice President, Sippican Land Trust, MA

Connecting People and Place: The Soulful Landscape Programs

I offer performances and keynotes to inspire, uplift and evoke people's sense of place, creating the foundation for engaging in stewardship. I also offer workshops and trainings to give people tools, experiences, strategies and inspiration  that helps them articulate what 'sense of place' means to them, and why in matters in their lives and beyond.

Start with this intro video to learn more:
"About Erica Wheeler and the Soulful Landscape Programs"  6 minute intro video here>>>


Details about my Soulful Landscape performances, lectures & keynotes  "Performances, lectures and keynotes" 4 minute video here >>>


Details about my Soulful Landscape workshops, trainings & retreats "Workshops, trainings and retreats" View 4 minute video here >>>


Place is Personal

If you told me about a place you love and why it matters to you, your answer would be as unique as you are. And that's the thing about places: they're collectively experienced, yet very personally understood. There's places we have affection for, and places that need our affection.

Sometimes, our love for a place is what we have in common.

From your own backyard to a historic street or wilderness peak, when we feel a personal bond with a place, we're more inclined to take action to take care of that place. I know it's complex world we live in, but it can be that simple: We take care of what we love.

"Her songs measure the cost of urban sprawl not in terms of species endangered, but in memories lost. Her lyrics evoke all the trails we’ve hiked, the streams swum, the trees climbed … the silent epiphanies … without ever sounding preachy. But when she drops the truism ‘Your children won’t know [the land] the way I did,’ suddenly your local zoning battle may seem a little more interesting". Yankee magazine

What's your love story?

"We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well--- for we will not fight to save what we do not love." Stephen Jay Gould, author and scientist

Behind every natural, cultural and historic site that's ever been protected or conserved there has been a love story. A story of an individual or group of people who cared about a place and expressed why they cared in a way that inspired others to care.


You don't need to be a creative person to tell this story, just a curiosity to discover more about the places you care about and why will do.  You could find your story anywhere. It could be a place you'd long forgotten. It could be your own backyard, but your story and your place matters. In our busy modern-day lives, our connection to places can be forgotten. We all need reminders, especially during troubled times---we need all the inspiration we can get.


What's your love story? It would my honor to help you find it, express it, create it and live more soulfully connected to place.

"Erica creates a kind of alchemy in the room where even the most timid of us is inspired to find the writer within. She gave us new tools and reminded me of tools I once knew and had long forgotten. She inspired me to get back to an interpretive project I had put aside which I am now working on with renewed enthusiasm and focus." Julia Clebsch, Interpretive Naturalist, Brooklyn, NY

Learn more. Say Hello.

  • Sign-up for my e-newsletter  Get event updates, reflection and inspiration. ( Read archives here)
  • Download my free e-book  Get "Seven Soulful Ways to Connect to Place," a short workbook with ideas for ways to connect to places.
  • Attend a program  Find one on my Calendar page or bring me to your town or event.
  • Hear my songs Listen or purchase a CD of my ordinal songs
  • Say hello Write me at erica@ericawheeler.com

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