Take a creative journey that will transform you.

Interested in exploring the intersections between self, history, nature, and place? We are too! Join a class or mentoring program and connect with people who find meaning in their connection to place.

Sense of Place Writing Offerings:

Who is this for?

I help creatives, naturalists, scientists, historians, academics, educators, healers and soul seekers find their creative path, hone their voice and develop their craft.

My creative framework has been honed from decades of experience, working on my own creative process, and offering workshops, classes and training to help people find and develop their stories, from Women’s Wellness Weekends to working with park rangers from Denali National Park and Preserve to the Washington Monument.

I work with all types of writers - from the budding creative to the published pro. I help people become the writers they are inside and find their creative voice, even when they weren’t sure they had one. I help them find their creative path, and craft their stories to completion.

I do this by offering practices centered around exploring personal experiences and ideas through the lens of place. I lead them on a journey of discovery, where life experiences, ideas, and knowledge weave together to create evocative, meaningful writings.

If you want to flourish in a community of support, engage in generating new writing, hone your ideas, polish your craft and get get personalized mentoring and coaching, please explore my offerings.

Results have included:

• Generating enough writing to apply for a master’s degree in creative nonfiction

• Writing a series of personal essays

• Drafting hundreds of pages for a historical fiction novel

• Finishing an essay about beavers for a park website

• Completing a children’s book about geology

• Creating poems to pair with photographs

• Mapping out memoir content

• Finding a new path for reworking a newsletter.

• Crafting stories to share a passion for nature through story and descriptive imagery.

• Finding the threads of story that could weave together past and present experiences.

• Developing a writing practice

• Living with increased confidence, creativity and well-being

Why write rooted in a sense of place?

1. You find your path. When you start writing about places that are meaningful to you, you tap into a well of stories, imagery, and creativity inside you. And you become the descriptive, detailed writer you always hoped to be.

2. You hone your craft: For all levels of writers, this framework offers a fresh technique you see with new eyes, and add more details and depth to whatever you want to create.

3. You make deeper connections. When you start writing about a place that intrigues you or matters to you, When you see deeper connections between what you feel or know, and the places, people, and events that intrigue you, you find your creative path.

Writing with a sense of place is not the only way to access your creative side, but it’s the “special sauce” that I have seen work effectively for all kinds of people. When you use sense-of-place as the entry point for getting into your creative mind you discover a portal where your unique ideas, imagery, meaning, and metaphor reside.

Sense of Place Writing provides a structured, creative framework that leads you on a journey of self-expression, effective story crafting and skillful communication. My classes meet you where you are. They are not a generic, impersonal course, but instead a personalized mentoring experience within a community of support to help you become the writer you’re meant to be.

If you yearn to write more and are looking for inspiration and a community that supports you to explore and find your path, this writing framework is for you. People interested in all kinds of writing join us: non-fiction, historical fiction, memoir, interpretation, songs, poetry, and more. All levels of experience can benefit from these programs. I hope you’ll join us.

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