Check out Liz’s PowerPoint presentation here and try out these writing prompts:
Writing Exercise #1
1.Choose a landscape or location that has resonated strongly with you at a specific time in your life (i.e., being 19 years old along a prairie highway in Manitoba)
2.“Triage” that landscape. Identify all the sensory details (Sight, smell, touch, sound, etc) associated with that place.
3.What are the emotions connected with those details? What do they make you think of now?
4.Spend 10 minutes writing reflectively using these prompts. You can choose to write in the form of a poem or prose. Whichever works best for you.
Writing Exercise #2
•Consider the place you are currently in (room, house, street, etc)
•What if the wild intervened in some way (i.e., “the light step of a cougar”)? What would that encounter look like?
•How would the presence of a wild being make you experience your current space in a new way? (i.e., find myself again / in a new place)
•Again, considering these prompts, compose a short poem/paragraph (5-10 minutes)