Writing Workshop Schedule

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BIG GREEN SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOP

Monday, July 30, 2007

WORKSHOP 1 10:00 WILDNESS

• Overview: Eco-Identity; Wildness; Personal Voice
• Exercises(See Exercises page for full version):
  • Memories of the Wild in Childhood
  • Our Wildness Issues
• Readings:
  • “The Depths” by Denise Levertov;
  • “Sleeping in the Forest” by Mary Oliver;
  • From “Practice of the Wild” by Gary Snyder;
  • From “Walking” by Thoreau

WORKSHOP 2 3:00 NATURE AND MADNESS

• Topics: Eco-psychology; Collective madness, guilt and forgiveness
• Exercises:
  • What Do I Own?
  • My Community
  • Forgiveness Exercise
• Readings:
  • “Nature and Madness” by Paul Shepherd;
  • “A Bygone World” by Brendan Stanley;
  • “Snake” by D.H. Lawrence;
  • “William Duffy’s Farm” by James Wright;
  • “Navajo Chant for Healing”

Tuesday, July 31

WORKSHOP 1 10:00 ARCADIA (RE-VISIONING WILDNESS)

• Topics: Split of Nature and Culture; Language and the Earth; Arcadian Fiction
• Exercises:
  • Snapshot of Big Green Summer
  • Arcadian fiction exercise
• Readings:
  • “Lake Isle of Innisfree” by Yeats;
  • “God’s Grandeur” by Hopkins;
  • “Possibility” by Dickinson;
  • “Song of the Rolling Earth” Whitman;
  • “Nature” and “Oversoul” by Emerson;
  • “Journal” by Thoreau

WORKSHOP 2 3:00 ECO-CENTRISM

• Topics: Eco-centrism; Ecological Spiritual Practice
• Exercises:
  • My Eco Values
  • My Eco Skills
  • Coin an Environmental Term
• Readings:
  • “Walden” by Thoreau;
  • “Self-Realization” by Arne Naess;
  • “Deep Ecology” by Fritz Capra;
  • "Woman in the 19th Century" Margaret Fuller

Wednesday, August 1

WORKSHOP 1 10:00 MY ECO-IDENTITY (EVOLVING STATEMENT)

• Steps for putting together a 1 to 2 page statement of who you are now as an environmentalist, using your blogs and freewrites from the exercises. We’ll begin drafting together, and you can continue on your own until 3 pm when we’ll share what we have so far. This will include what you believe in and a vision of your future path of living on the earth.
• Reading: Group recitation of “The Clay Jug” by Kabir

WORKSHOP 2 CELEBRATION OF ECO-IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY

• Sharing of draft statements that sum up the lasting value of Big Green Summer for you. These statements can be refined for use in newsletters, blogs, or web pages.