Shapes of Nature:
Writing for Grieving Hearts
The human world needs your story - and the natural world
wants to help you tell it.
Join Robin Lanehurst and Heather Dorfman for generative writing, community building, and storytelling.
Shapes of Nature offers a gentle space to explore your grief, with the support of nature’s complex and powerful shapes - spirals, fractals, waves, and beyond.
Welcome to both advanced and novice writers -
and everyone in between.
Shapes of Nature dates (all 7-9pm):
July 24
August 14
September 18
October 16
November 20
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We'll begin cultivating a community that is grief-aware and sensitive. As we begin, we’ll focus on building relationships with each other and the more-than-human world - through storytelling, song, guided meditation, and a brief writing exercise.
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In this session, we’ll begin to weave our grief stories into new shapes and patterns, exploring hopes, fears, and our personal experiences with nature beings between sessions.
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Using various forms - structured poetry, song, and shapes of the forest - we will dive deeper into the layers of our grief and spend more time writing our stories.
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In this final session before sharing our stories in community, we will re-vision our grief stories into new shapes, inspired by the many forms of water.
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If desired, this is the opportunity to share your story with community.
The shapes of this container
Cost, location, and other important information
The total cost of this workshop is $200 ($40 per session). Sliding scale options are available using the discount codes found on this page. If the workshop is still inaccessible to you using those discount options, please reach out!
We’ll meet at Second Shapes Bookstore, in Portland’s Kenton neighborhood (thank you Second Shapes for so generously offering your space!)
Your facilitators are Robin Lanehurst and Heather Dorfman. We are lovers of writing, tenders of grief (our own and others’), teachers, parents, and aspiring always to weave ourselves back into the living web of this beautiful world. We hope you’ll join us!
