Reclaiming Our Connection to Nature

Reclaiming Our Connection to Nature

Talks, Walks, Meditation, Coloring, and Writing Workshops!

with Suzanne Ondrus, Ph.D.

Hear: Love, Ohio history, and motorcycle poems

Write: Several new writing forms applicable for all genres

Learn: About trees’ humanity, hermits, and forest bathing!

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Participation in the workshops are free! Please fill out the form below if you are interested in attending the workshops, day of sign-ups are welcome if space is available.

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Friday Workshops | July 21

Please select which workshops you plan to attend. Workshops are free to attend and are open to all ages, unless noted.

4:30 p.m.-4:50p.m. Presentation: Humorous motorcycle poems! 5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Writing Workshop for adults & Coloring for Kids: Hermits & Nature Manuals Come write a hermit character sketch and a nature manual inspired by your vision of a hermit! 7:30 p.m.-7:50 p.m. Presentation: Travel to West Africa (Burkina Faso) with photos & poems8:00p.m.-8:30 p.m. Come hear about a grisly 1881 Wood County, Ohio crime case. Trigger warning: violence, not suitable for children.

Saturday Workshops | July 22 10:00-11:15 Walk on a trail with a writer while reading and writing11:30-11:50 Learning & Feeling Trees’ Humanity Presentation for kids and adults on how trees are like humans. Coloring activity for kids.12:00-12:30 Activity: Learning & Feeling Trees’ Humanity Through Meditation: a 20-minute mediation (standing or sitting) outside next to trees, and brief sharing of experience.3:30-4:15 Workshop: Writing Trees’ Humanity This activity, which the prior activities lead up to, is a writing exercise and workshop. If interested in the writing workshop, you are advised to participate in all three sessions.8:00p.m.-8:20p.m. Presentation: Love poems from Suzanne Ondrus’ award-winning book “Passion Seeds”

Sunday Workshops | July 23 10:15 Presentation on this weekend’s Public Writing Walls: Letters to Trees & Poem for the Park10:30a.m.-10:55 a.m. Dr. Suzanne Ondrus’ flash fiction and flash nonfiction reading 11:00a.m.-11:45a.m. Flash fiction and nonfiction workshop