co-facilitated by Kati Fernandez Lambert of Coyote Fire Illustration
Winter Mini Session: Saturday, February 8, 9am - 4pm
Optional Dinner and Fireside time from 4 - 8pm
Hosted by Wendy Alettha at A Wilderness Nearby, Barneveld, WI **
Optional Willow Harvest Party Friday, February 7th, time TBD
This session is currently full. Contact us to join the waitlist!
Optional Dinner and Fireside time from 4 - 8pm
Hosted by Wendy Alettha at A Wilderness Nearby, Barneveld, WI **
Optional Willow Harvest Party Friday, February 7th, time TBD
This session is currently full. Contact us to join the waitlist!
Join us as we explore core routines of deep nature connection, restorative somatic practices, and creative processes that draw inspiration from and grow relationship with the land. We will take time to nurture our tender hearts, create beauty, and develop relationships with nature, ourselves and each other.
This is a workshop...
* For all marginalized genders: women, women-identifying individuals, and non-binary and gender non-conforming folx who are comfortable in a group that centers the experiences of women.
For individuals curious about creative and art-making practices at any level of experience.
To explore your inner world in the outdoors.
To connect with nature as a balm for your inner world.
To inspire and/or develop a creative practice to fuel your creative endeavors.
That calls on your inward experience and the bounty, beauty and medicine of nature, combining them for self-care, discovery, and healing.
This mini session will draw on themes from Imbolc, the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Participants are invited to bring projects/materials they are working on, and we will also be offering a project using willow. If you would like to participate in willow harvesting for your project on Friday, February 7th, please indicate your interest in the registration form.
This is a workshop...
* For all marginalized genders: women, women-identifying individuals, and non-binary and gender non-conforming folx who are comfortable in a group that centers the experiences of women.
For individuals curious about creative and art-making practices at any level of experience.
To explore your inner world in the outdoors.
To connect with nature as a balm for your inner world.
To inspire and/or develop a creative practice to fuel your creative endeavors.
That calls on your inward experience and the bounty, beauty and medicine of nature, combining them for self-care, discovery, and healing.
This mini session will draw on themes from Imbolc, the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Participants are invited to bring projects/materials they are working on, and we will also be offering a project using willow. If you would like to participate in willow harvesting for your project on Friday, February 7th, please indicate your interest in the registration form.
** We gather on occupied HoChunk land
Your Guides
Meg Barrow, MS, OTR/L of Thriving Wild OT
In addition to her work as a nature connection guide and occupational therapist, Meg (she/her/hers) is an artist and maker who is particularly drawn to folk art and forms of handmaking traditionally done by women. She holds these forms in high regard not only because of the skills they require, but also because she recognizes that this work creates community, comfort, delight, care, and beauty in our everyday lives, making them instruments of survival, connection, and love. It’s no surprise that the materials and motifs frequently used in folk art come from the natural world, and it is in nature that she finds endless creative and relational inspiration. |
Kati Fernandez Lambert of Coyote Fire Illustration
Kati (she/her/hers) is a children’s illustrator and artist. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has publicly exhibited both her fine art and illustrations. She has a background in Nature Connection mentoring, outdoor and after-school enrichment programming for young people, as well as a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kati offers classes and workshops at the intersection of creativity and nature, including making art supplies out of natural materials, creating art with nature treasures, and engaging in nature connection practices to spark creative energy. If she’s not painting or drinking coffee, she can be found tracking wildlife with her family at the pond behind their home. Find out more about her work at www.coyotefirearts.com. |
Wendy Alettha (she/her/hers ), land tender of A Wilderness Nearby
My earliest memory is a dream that I had before I was three years old, of being saved from a house fire by a tree outside my window. Ever since then there has always been a special tree nearby no matter where I lived. As an adult I haven't always consciously recognized the importance of connection with Nature but I always enjoyed being outside; biking, sailing, kayaking, climbing trees and gardening. It was 19 years ago, when I was 56, that I rediscovered the reciprocity possible in a relationship with Nature and the land I now care for. I live with 20 acres of an oak and hickory woods. Early on in this relationship I began to receive supportive and directive messages from the woods. One of the first encouragements from the trees was to share the healing energy of these woods with others. I look forward to hosting you here and sharing these woods with you as part of this experience. |
Registration Fees
We are offering this workshop on a sliding scale. Please use the graphic below as a guide when selecting your tier of payment.
Tier 1: $155
Tier 2: $205
Tier 3: $255
All materials are included in the workshop fee. Coffee, tea, and lunch will be provided.
Participation is offered free of charge to participants who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color as a reparation based on a history of and an economy built on genocide, race-based oppression, and unpaid/underpaid labor in the United States.
Tier 1: $155
Tier 2: $205
Tier 3: $255
All materials are included in the workshop fee. Coffee, tea, and lunch will be provided.
Participation is offered free of charge to participants who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color as a reparation based on a history of and an economy built on genocide, race-based oppression, and unpaid/underpaid labor in the United States.
Our Cancellation Policy
Participants needing to cancel are offered:
You’re welcome to transfer your registration to another participant, just keep us in the loop!
If Wild Women* Create needs to cancel, you will be given a full refund or option for a makeup date. If Wild Women* Create needs to cancel one day of a two-day program due to illness or weather, a make-up day will be offered.
- Full refund prior to Jan 25
- 50% refund after Feb 1
- no refund within 48 hours of workshop
You’re welcome to transfer your registration to another participant, just keep us in the loop!
If Wild Women* Create needs to cancel, you will be given a full refund or option for a makeup date. If Wild Women* Create needs to cancel one day of a two-day program due to illness or weather, a make-up day will be offered.
Our Illness Policy
Because we will be spending more time indoors during this session, we are asking that participants stay home if they are not feeling well. Please use your best judgement if someone in your home is ill, even if you don't have symptoms. You will be offered a full refund up until the workshop if you are not able to attend due to illness.
Thank you for your care and consideration!
Thank you for your care and consideration!