Events Calendar

May 4 - Jun. 7, 2020 Writing on the Landscape: The Book Experienced online course
This online course will guide students through the book, Writing on the Landscape: Essays and Practices to Write, Roam, Renew. Upon registration, we will decide as a class which two dates we want to meet in real-time (via Zoom videoconference). The rest of the coursework can be done per a student's individual schedule and will be supported (during the course dates listed above) via email and the online course platform. Learn more and register here. 

Jun. 10, 2020 (Wed.) Weaned Seals and Snowy Summits book reading through Charter for Compassion's Environment Sector
Online Webinar Free
7:00 AM Please email Jennifer with your intention to register: tealarborstories@gmail.com (registration link coming soon)

Jun. 20, 2020 (Sat.) Summer half-day retreat, via Zoom $60.
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
Join me via Zoom to contemplate the season of summer through poetry, meditation, writing, visual art, etc. We will spend a portion of our time going outdoors in our respective locations and then reconvening online. Please have near your computer art supplies, paper, pens, and whatever else you need to feel comfortable. To register, send an email: tealarborstories@gmail.com

Jun. 30, 2020 (Tue.) Nature as Tool, Antidote, and Inspiration in Writing, class offered through Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network's Writing Studio, via Zoom $78. ($60. BARN members)
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM 
Learn and practice Earthy ways for engaging your writing process and feeding the content of your written work. Come to understand how the natural world and ecology can be used as tools, antidotes (especially for writer’s block), and inspiration for your writing and your life. Specifically, students will be: given foundational information about the nature/creativity connection; guided through a sampling of free-writes and practices; guided through general ways to incorporate nature into their writing projects and creative process, coming to understand the role and benefit of such; given an opportunity to receive feedback about how to implement these practices specifically in relation to their own projects or creative impasses. This class is appropriate for all authors and aspiring writers; the practices can be effective regardless of genre. Be sure to bring to class a few pens, a stack of paper (preferably unlined), as well as an open-heart and open mind. Together, the students and instructor will create a nurturing and nourishing creative environment so that everyone can flourish. Register here. 

Aug. 3 - 7, 2020 TEALarbor stories Annual Retreat, via Zoom
Join us if you have been craving restorative retreat time. With nurturing guidance, practical suggestions, and the intimacy of a group with shared interests, move forward with your creative ideas. Whether you’re a writer, artist, dreamer, or beauty-lover, this retreat will hold you as you ease into your fertile edges. (No project is too small or too large for this retreat.) Alternatively, if you just want to be nourished by the retreat activities (rather than pursuing a specific project), you are very welcome to join us. Learn more by clicking here. 
 

Sep. 14 - Oct. 18, 2020 Writing on the Landscape: The Book Experienced online course
This online course will guide students through the book, Writing on the Landscape: Essays and Practices to Write, Roam, Renew. Upon registration, we will decide as a class which two dates we want to meet in real-time (via Zoom videoconference). The rest of the coursework can be done per a student's individual schedule and will be supported (during the course dates listed above) via email and the online course platform. Learn more and register here. 

Sep. 26, 2020 (Sat.) Fall half-day retreat, via Zoom $60. 
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join me via Zoom to contemplate the season of autumn through poetry, meditation, writing, visual art, etc. We will spend a portion of our time going outdoors in our respective locations and then reconvening online. Please have near your computer art supplies, paper, pens, and whatever else you need to feel comfortable. To register, send an email: tealarborstories@gmail.com 
 

Growing Words of Compassion: Nature and Writing Practices to Love By (Online Course)
On-demand - available now (register and take the course whenever you want): This course is a hands-on, multidisciplinary curriculum that will help students engage with their innate capacity for tender compassion. The course is designed to meet each student where s/he currently is in the understanding and practice of compassion; deepening one’s expression of compassion is the primary focus. Click here for more information.