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Karen Auvinen
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Writing

Wild

Workshops - Rollinsville, CO

SUMMER 2026

DATES COMING SOON.

Workshops exploring the landscapes of the body and the earth.

Writing Wild Workshops are season-based generative workshops exploring our wild, physical selves in all the landscapes we inhabit. Participants drop into their senses and write to and from this place in a series of exercises meant to inspire and get their creative juices going. Open to beginners and seasoned writers as well as the writing curious. Plan for camaraderie, craft talk, nature walking, discussion, and plenty of writing. Space limited. #writingwildworkshops

HALF DAY WORKSHOP - $75 - Stalking the Story. May 2025

FULL DAY WORKSHOPS - $150 OR $125 For Early Registration of Registration with a friend.

Full Day Workshops offer immersion in landscape and community—a deeper experience of Writing Wild

Writing Wild: Wilding Your World

With summer in full bloom, we’ll take our cue from the abundance of wildflowers and baby birds, seasonal thundershowers and flourishing gardens to learn how to inhabit our wild selves both on the page, with each other, and in the stories we both create and tell. Become an animal in landscape or a cloud blown on the wind, spend time inspecting the woodpecker-tattered bark of an aspen or examining the tendrils offered by moss to learn to engage your senses and fill your inspirational cup. Join me for exploration and generative exercises.

Writing Wild: Ritual

As we prepare to enter enter fall, this daylong workshop focuses on not only helping your understand your own writing rituals (best times + places for inspiration, how to keep coming back to writing over and over) in order to help you feed your creative self, but also on inspiring some new ones. Plus, we’ll take a deep dive in the mystery with an intuitive inspiration hike and using tarot cards to help us access images, stories, poems swimming in our subconscious bodies.

Workshops are onsite at my house and in the Roosevelt National Forest. Bring a hat, sunscreen, sitting pad, notebook, water and lunch.

10-10-12:30 Meet, walk, craft talk, generative writing (tea provided).

12:30 -1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Afternoon session#1

200-2:15 Break - snack provided by Karen

2:15 - 3:00: Afternoon session #2

3:00-3:15: Closing Reflective Writing

3:15-3:30: Open Circle and Sharing

To Register, please click corresponding link below.

This generative workshop explores our wild, physical selves inside the landscape of the lodgepole pine forest outside of Rollinsville, Colorado. We’ll drop into our senses and write to and from this place in a series of exercises meant to inspire and get your creative juices going. Plan for craft talk, discussion, and plenty of writing. Space Limited.

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