This workshop will be hosted at the in-person programming at MTSU Writes on October 23; details about my specific talk are TBA, but registration for the conference, “Write to Heal,” is available at https://www.mtsu.edu/write/conference.php

Writing the More-than-Human: Mindfulness and Creative Healing in Nature

Human writers exist in a richly populated, interdependent world of other-than-human beings. Some writers, especially nature writers, engage head-on with this interdependence by writing directly about nature, but even in writing that appears fully committed to unraveling human dramas, the other-than-human may appear as a setting or a metaphor, a sunset or a housecat. But the embodied experience of writing in and about nature transcends all human genres; spending time connecting with the more-than-human world can be a source of deep beauty and personal creative healing. In this session, we will engage with other-than-human beings, learn mindfulness practices that can deepen our sensory and intuitive experiences of the natural world, and practice writing about the more-than-human in creative and affectionate ways.