In the early days, and in some places now, there were holy people, the saints and monks, the scribes and poets, who would offer themselves as intermediaries between this world and the other. They would sit in those places where the veils were thin, beside cave walls, at springs and trees and mountain tops, on islands and in deep woods, and take down the sacred words and instructions they heard. These would be offered as gifts and guiding lore to their villages and communities, sometimes they would become the origin of myth.
In these times now, when we listen for the wisdom of a world beyond, when we strive to understand the primary text of nature and the lore of the land, and we look for guidance for imagining a future in which all things thrive, we invite you to sit beside those veils again.
Nature Scriptorium is an online writing circle for those who would listen more deeply to the voices beyond our busy world, to hear the other-than-humans that live beside us, to the ancestors and the spirits of places that inhabit our land unseen.
In our time together as a circle of scribes, we will tune our ears to the subtle frequencies and with pens in hand, we will commit ourselves to the ritual practice of reciprocity with the natural world, we will aim to hear the quieter conversation, the common wild tongue, and we will translate and offer it back to our communities in service of our future and past generations.
Who is this for?
This is for anyone who writes, either for themselves or others, and would like to connect to a deeper source of inspiration and information. It is for those who long to develop further their conversation with the natural world and feel called to translate what they hear there to others.
This is for those who would like to see a remembering of the place of humans within nature as their original home and consider themselves as potential intermediaries in service to that change.
Five Workshop Themes
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Tracking The Creative Muse & Other Origin Stories
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A Romantic Vision, The School of Sensibility
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Writing With Nature, Conversations With Others
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Writing With Ancestors
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Writing For The Future, A Thrutopian Vision
Our time together will include:
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Ceremonial and ritual practice
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Talk: of those who call the rain
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Land-based ephemeral art and making
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The response of nature
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Talk: the voice of water
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Talk: prayers from the desert
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Silent pilgrimage
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Talk: the meditative mark, repetition as chant
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Making beauty to heal
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Making the invisible visible
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Summoning the spirit of creative flow
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Authentic way, meaning & making
Our sessions together will include ritual, teaching, discussion and group sharing. There will be tasks set each week for you to work with your own making in your own places, the amount of time spent on these being at your own discretion.