Nature Writing: The Inner and Outer Landscape Converge

In this workshop participants will explore how their relationship to NATURE INFORMS THEIR IDENTITY, worldview, and spiritual lives. What has NATURE TAUGHT US ABOUT WHO WE ARE, where we belong, and what we’re doing here on earth? Guided by beloved essays and poems, participants will be offered careful, NATURE-focused prompts to drive their WRITING. There will be ample time to share WRITING WITH OTHERS AND RECEIVE FEEDBACK, but no one is required to share. Sited at the Gell Center in the beautiful Bristol Hills of the Finger Lakes region, this workshop is the perfect place to create community in the midst of nature. Whether working in the beautiful Gleason Lodge, or taking time on your own in the woods, you’ll have time to contemplate and write in a community of support. Anais Salibian has published personal essays and professional articles in a variety of venues. She spent decades teaching creative non-fiction writing at Writers & Books, local school districts and colleges, Oasis Lifelong Learning Center, and at the Monroe County Public Library. At the same time, she maintained a private practice in therapeutic bodywork. Because most of her clients were trauma survivors, she studied the neurobiology of trauma. When she discovered the research on writing to heal, she realized that the elements of writing that helped were the very skills she was teaching in her classes. Her two careers merged when she saw how using the right language the right way restores severed neural connections. She has offered her Writing to Heal classes and workshops both privately and at the above venues, as well as at organizations such as women’s shelters, a rape crisis center, and with the U.S. Pain Foundation. In 2004, she was awarded the Writers & Books Teacher of Adults Award.