Clermont, KY
Learn how to make time in nature part of your creative practice and self-care regimen through a free writing workshop with local poet and educator Bobbi Buchanan.
Participants will meet at the Guerilla Hollow Loop trailhead and will be briefed on simple techniques for communing with nature, then embark on a 45-minute hike along Guerilla Hollow Loop Trail. Minimal talking will take place on the trail since we will be practicing silence and solitude to inspire meditation and creativity. After the hike, participants will immediately gather for reflection, discussion, and guided writing time.
Please wear comfortable shoes and bring a reusable water bottle, a journal or notebook and something to write with. The workshop leader discourages the use of cellphones or personal electronic devices during the hike, as well as the workshop.
*This workshop is ideal for writers, artists, musicians, and other creative types, as well as anyone looking to benefit from the healing and restorative powers of the natural world.
This program is free of charge, but participants must register, as space is limited for safety.
Bobbi Buchanan has led therapeutic writing workshops for inmates and in the community since 2013. She promotes a self-care regimen of unplugging, communing with nature, and journaling. A poet and author, Buchanan taught college writing at JCTC and now teaches English at Bullitt Central High School in Shepherdsville, Ky. She launched and ran a literary journal, New Southerner, for more than 10 years, and she edited and published seven volumes of creative works by inmates while teaching therapeutic writing and life skills at the Bullitt County Detention Center. She is a Kentucky Foundation for Women grant recipient and led a writing workshop for troubled youth at YouthBuild as part of HEAL Smoketown, a nonprofit effort by artists to improve community connection and health in Louisville’s first and oldest historically Black neighborhood.