Writing With Your World
Slowing Down, Listening Deeply, Telling the Truth
A winter exploration of ensouled bioregional writing
December 6th, 2026 - February 28th, 2027
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
—Mary Oliver
A Winter of Deep Listening...
Potent writing emanates from paying attention; from listening to the “words beneath the words;” from following a breeze like it’s leading to a great secret. Potent writing is a trail map to moments of true presence and the courage to speak the truth hidden in plain sight. Potent writing is not neutral.
In these days of flatlined apocalypse, of unfeeling consumption, of enforced complicity with an unchosen culture, what words want to rise? What truths have you waited too long already to voice? What outrages, passions, and loves for this tender wild planet and your own heart are waiting for your attention?
Writing With Your World is a container for leaning into the essential questions and considerations of your life. What do you really want, and who are you, really? How deep are you willing to dig to find the wellspring that is your particular way of seeing and saying at this moment in earth’s story? There are things only you can speak with, for, and to the particular place you live. Will you?
Merging lessons on the craft of writing with practices for accessing deep imagination and transpersonal awareness, Writing With Your World is a group journey into discovering and speaking the meanings of your entangled relationship with the creatures, watersheds, activisms, people, and possibilities of your own home ground.
What will we do in this writing course?
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Readings, practices, and “assignments” for growing in the technical craft of creative nonfiction and poetic writing
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A group container with an emphasis on gently building discipline/accountability into your writing practice
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Practices focused on interacting with the beings, dynamics, and activisms native to your particular bioregion
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An exploration of deep imagination utilizing the practices of dreamwork, active imagination, journal practices, counsel, and conversing with the wild world
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Ongoing peer workshops and instructor feedback
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An invitation into visibility and a mutual support network for learning to speak and write deeper levels of your embodied truth
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A cultivation of ecological awareness and increased sensitivity to your place in what Mary Oliver calls “the family of things.”
Facilitators
Kristopher Drummond
LCMCHA, Wilderness Guide & Poet
Kristopher is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, a wilderness guide and co-founder of the rites of passage organization Remembering Earth, and a poet, expressive arts, and writing teacher. His work is focused on the intersection of wilderness, regeneration, and emergence, listening for the rhythms of the Great Turning while tending to the consequences of the Great Unraveling.
Writing Workshop Details
Dates and Times:
Three consecutive formal meetings per monthly module, with an optional community session on the fourth Sunday. (3-4 meetings per month, totaling 13 sessions)
Sundays @ 11:00 - 1:00 pm EST on Zoom. December 6th, 2026 - February 28th, 2027
Course Overview:
WWYW will be spacious, moving between formal lessons, writing exercises, and other teachings and community spaces for connecting, heart sharing, and things like dreamwork, deep listening, peer writing workshops, and embodiment explorations.
In addition to the slow pace, WWYW will feature an organized and structured exploration of personal narrative. Using focused journal prompts, dreamwork, guided imagery, talking council and other practices, we will uncover personal myths that are ripe for the telling. Together, we will uncover the stories that must be told, that in the telling will initiate us into what David Whyte calls “the real conversation” of that very step we know we need to take.
The third and final section of the course will bring these two lines of inquiry together while honing the technical craft of writing. Drawing upon Ensouling Language by Stephen Harrod Buhner, On Writing Well by William Zinnser, Writing For Your Life by Deena Metzger, Writing Into the Wound by Roxanne Gay, and others, we’ll work with the story of place and the story of self and the way they intersect.
In what ways are our own personal myths implicated in the myth, indeed the way we belong to the place we live? When we expand our sense of self to include the land, what are the unique loves and outrages we are called to voice?
This cohort is designed with the muse in mind; as a courtship to the forces beyond self who seem to respond to sincerity, slowness, and intention. For that reason, we will cultivate a community of practice, a field of accountability and momentum to lean on in the sometimes lonely work of writing.
Utilizing technology, we’ll have an online sharing community (Mighty Networks) and a collective WhatsApp/Telegram group to go along with the weekly calls and practices.
Pricing:
$600 one-time fee or $200/month for 3 months
Limited BIPOC/Need-Based Scholarship spots are available - If you want to join this course but finances are a barrier, email admin@kristopherdrummond.com and we can be in conversation about a reduced rate.