A Program in Partnership with the Thoreau Society
Author talks and writing workshops that encourage critical thinking and perceptive writing about the world and ourselves.
Fall 2024
Using Nature’s Playbook
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
7pm
Thoreau Farm and online
$5/ person to attend in person. FREE to attend online. Registration Required.
LIT brings in voices from 40 interviewees including Nobel laureates, Olympic medalists, social justice leaders, an indigenous leader, celebrated artists, and multiple scientists and inventors who have managed to disengage from life on autopilot by activating the brain’s inherent power to undergo transformative change.
Followed By the Lark: Author Helen Humphreys in conversation with Jeffrey S. Cramer
Sunday, October 6, 2024
2pm
Thoreau Farm and online
$15/ person to attend in person. $5/person to attend online. Registration Required.
Co-sponsored by The Walden Woods Project
Inspired by the life, letters, and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, Followed by the Lark shows how strikingly similar the concerns of the early nineteenth century are to our own, and reminds us to listen for news of change: the song of spring’s first bluebird, reports from those who have heard it, and all the sounds and fearful wonders that come after.
Writing Your Story in the Woods
A two-day transformative memoir workshop with Dr. Barbara Mossberg
October 26 & 27, 2024
$200/person
Registration Required
No story is like yours — and your telling it is powerful and necessary. Join this workshop to find your woods and tell your story.
In this two-day workshop, national memoirist & distinguished teacher Dr. Barbara Mossberg invites you “to the woods” — a place to find focus, inspiration, connection, and support for developing your memoir. Experiments, prompts and exercises in this workshop are designed to invite, inquire, and invoke your own “woods” through Thoreau’s lens of living purposefully.
An Exuberant Evening with Barbara Mossberg
Saturday, October 26, 2024
6pm
Thoreau Farm and online
$5/ person to attend in person. Free to attend online. Registration Required. Free for Dr. B’s Writing Your Story In the Woods Summer and Fall 2024 workshop participants and past program alumni.
Join a magical evening of poignancy and lift in performance arts at Thoreau Farm with resident inspiration Dr. Barbara Mossberg. The presentations are followed by a reception.