Social Artistry
Watch out! We're dreaming big. And we invite you in on this.
We can see, feel and smell a new way to be in community. One that honors our past and grows a new future. One where all are included, one that is accessible to all. One that is kinship and connection based.
What does it mean to live in kinship?
We believe in shared experiences and laughing. WE dream of a modern community where we collaborate, brush shoulders, rest, and play together.
We believe this way is possible and WE are here to begin the process. Join us, when you are ready and however you like. Community is shaped by its participants, and with a strong, life-giving heart at the helm.
Here are a few ways that you might like to participate and help grow a healthy society. These gatherings are community based which means that they are run not as a business but at a collaborative of individuals with a similar heart mission.
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Generation Circle is a co-created gathering for individuals (12+) who see the value of diverse ages and backgrounds coming together to share and learn from one another. Gatherings will be full of laughter and realization as we stitch together a network of kinship that supports a shift from the isolation of the past several years into a more connected way of being. What we do together will change throughout the year but will commonly include: collaborative art projects, physical movement, relational practices, singing, storytelling, dialog circle, and other contemplative practices led by individuals within our local community.
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My hope is that this project will spark new relationships within local neighborhoods. Ones that can grow and continue long after Backyard Stories ends. It’s a simple idea: invite your neighbors to join you for an evening of food and stories. Not the fancy kind of stories shared at ticketed events but the ones that we tell when sitting around the camp fire or porch swing.
Sharing food and stories with our neighbors might not seem like a radical act of transformation but how many of us even know our neighbor’s names. We as a society have created a structure of living where we pick and choose who we interact with and thus have created a safe haven of confidants who think, look and live like us. This accentuates the idea of “otherness,” which is currently made worse by the news and social media. Coming together, in someone’s backyard, who may not look or think like us is a way of stepping away from this mindset. A practice that can bring us back together to focus on the changes that need to take place in our world.
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Youth Offerings
These are your typical drop-off style classes, workshops, and camps for youth but are unique in that my goal is to cultivate and support a child’s physical, emotional, moral, psychological, and spiritual attributes.
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Moon Circle
This six-week series supports girls ages 10 to 12 on the verge of adolescence. Together we will explore the mental, emotional, and physical changes occurring during this special time in their lives. Topics include body autonomy, charting your cycle, emotional awareness, communication, and menstruation products. A light and fun atmosphere will be created that encourages sisterhood and personal knowledge so that your daughter feels safe and excited to attend. This is one of the many community-driven “coming of age” programs that Nature Song is interested in offering.
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Each new summer I’m reminded of the importance of given kids freedom to play, brainstorm, problem solve, create, imagine, discover and explore on their own.
My camps are unique in this way and so important! Kids who participate are given the freedom to be a kid in the carefully crafted nature camps.
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