"Jennifer's mentoring has taught me how to tap into layers of my creative self that I'd not known... to plow old fields and plant new seeds. By guiding me back to the earth, she has helped me discover my center... led me to the fertile ground wherefrom my best effort is nourished... helped me lift and carry the rocks in my path. When I first engaged TEALarbor stories' services, my intent was to nudge the flow of and improve my writing. I have learned to write the flow of and improve my life experience as well."

JH, Writing Mentoree and Story & Nature Guiding © Client, 2012

Event Calendar

Contact Jennifer here for details.
To read about past events, click here.

Online Courses

The following three courses are "on-demand" (register and take the class at your own pace).

Growing Words of Compassion: Nature and Writing Practices to Love By $65. More info here.
Deepen your innate capacity and expression of tender compassion.

Writing on the Landscape: The Book Experienced $50. More info here.
Let the author guide you through her book, Writing on the Landscape: Essays and Practices to Write, Roam, Renew.

Instructors' Guide to Writing on the Landscape $25. More info here.
This instructional aid is for professors/facilitators using Writing on the Landscape in their curriculum/group work.

2023 Offerings

Register via this email for events requiring payment: tealarborstories@gmail.com
Registration for most paid events closes one week prior to start date.
All times listed are in the Pacific Time Zone/United States.

Jan. 28^th (Sat.) Featured Speaker, Toward Harmony with Nature Annual Conference $65. nonmember ($55. member / $30. student)
Wild Ones Fox Valley, Wisconsin (Join in-person or virtually!)
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Central Time
My hour-long presentation (which starts at 10:15 AM Central), Native Species and Ecotones: We Can’t Do Without Them, will begin with an overview of ecotones including definitions, environmental significance, examples of ecotones in the landscape, as well as the ecological and metaphorical values of them. I will then highlight the importance of conserving, restoring, and maintaining ecotones in native plantings and landscapes. Finally, I will provide an opportunity for conference attendees to explore their own relationships to native species through guided practices. Learn more and register here.

Feb. 6^th - 8^th(Mon. - Wed.) Celebrating Spiritual Ecology for World Interfaith Harmony Week Free - A United Nations Official Observance
8:00 – 9:00 AM
This interactive event will offer participants simple ways to incorporate nature-based and creative aspects into everyday spiritual practice. It is designed to guide participants through the various simple activities with opportunities for question/answer, sharing, and discussion. Each day we will focus on a different topic including: contemplative writing, nature mandalas, and gratitude. This is not a sectarian offering; it is intended to support people of all faiths in finding and deepening their own relationship to self, nature, and others through peaceable, interdisciplinary practices that they create consistent with their specific beliefs. Participants may join once, twice or all three days that this event occurs. We will gather each day - Feb. 6, Feb. 7, Feb. 8 on Zoom from 8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific Time/United States. Participants are kindly asked to bring any of the following that they have available: paper, writing pens, colored pens or paints, photos of nature, objects from nature (leaves, cones, flowers, shells, rocks, soil, water, etc.). Everyone is welcome. Limited to 100 participants. Register in advance for this meeting.

Feb. 14^th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Webinar Free (register to get access)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Listen to a thirty-minute informal talk interweaving such topics as creativity, beauty, nature, gratitude, and kindness. For those who can stay for the full hour, the second thirty minutes will be Q/A and discussion.

Apr. 11^th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Webinar Free (register to get access)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Listen to a thirty-minute informal talk interweaving such topics as creativity, beauty, nature, gratitude, and kindness. For those who can stay for the full hour, the second thirty minutes will be Q/A and discussion.

May 15^th (through Jun. 11^th) Compassionate Spiritual Ecology Course
This four-week online course, developed and taught by Jennifer J. Wilhoit, Ph.D., is hosted by the Charter for Compassion's Compassion Education Institute. This course offers students an overview of the body of work comprising the discipline of spiritual ecology. At the core of spiritual ecology are values that point to compassion for others—in the nonhuman world as well as in human communities. Beyond an introduction to the basic tenets and values of spiritual ecology, this course will guide, support, and encourage students to explore some of the myriad practical applications of a compassionate spiritual ecology.

Jun. 13^th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Webinar Free (register to get access)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Listen to a thirty-minute informal talk interweaving such topics as creativity, beauty, nature, gratitude, and kindness. For those who can stay for the full hour, the second thirty minutes will be Q/A and discussion.

Jul. 31^st - Aug. 4^th(Mon. - Fri.) TEALarbor stories Annual Creative Retreat

Aug. 8^th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Webinar Free (register to get access)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Listen to a thirty-minute informal talk interweaving such topics as creativity, beauty, nature, gratitude, and kindness. For those who can stay for the full hour, the second thirty minutes will be Q/A and discussion.

Aug. 14^th - 18^th (Mon. - Fri.) 2023 Parliament of the World's Religions Chicago, USA Learn more.

Oct. 10^th (Tues.) Second Tuesdays Lunchtime Webinar Free (register to get access)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Listen to a thirty-minute informal talk interweaving such topics as creativity, beauty, nature, gratitude, and kindness. For those who can stay for the full hour, the second thirty minutes will be Q/A and discussion.