Unearthing Story
Connecting to nature, self and Community
An immersive workshop weaving together nature and story to create a rich environment for growing self-awareness and compassion for yourself and others.
Upcoming Workshops
Saturday, October 11th
San Francisco, California
11AM – 1PM Pacific
COST $75
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Nature
Self
Community
Intertwining story with nature allows for deep connections, a better understanding of who we are and a reciprocal flow between the earth, the self, and others.
Meet Our Team
Suze Allen
Suze Allen wears many artistic hats, all of them cut from the cloth of shared stories. She is an author, poet, writing coach, editor, teacher, dramaturg, theatre professional, ghostwriter and life coach for LivingWriteNow, which offers life coaching through a writing modality. Her classes and workshops include Memoir Writing, Writing Through Grief and Sorrow, Unearthing Your Story ~ Connecting to Nature, Self & Community, Mining the Depths ~ Memoir & Monologue. Suze is a storytelling and story board consultant at ShadowPower.
Suze’s company, Manuscript Mentor has been helping folks turn their dreams, ideas and narratives into effective, vibrant writing in any genre, for over 20 years. She is the host of Memoir Church on the first Sunday of every month, which features memoirists in conversation and reading from their work.
Darlene Derose
Darlene DeRose is passionate about the importance of working together in community and with the natural world, to support personal and planetary healing. She works with a wide variety of populations, including individuals struggling with substance use disorder, military veterans; foster youth; mental health providers; and the general public. She is a Guest Faculty Member in the Fellowship in Reproductive & Integrative Psychiatry Program.
Darlene’s company, ShadowPower, is an independent film production company, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The mission of ShadowPower is to support community connection and healing through the medium of film – creating advocacy films, helping others tell their stories through film and creating educational videos.
Darlene holds a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in Consciousness and Transformative Studies from JFK University, where she specialized, and earned her Certificate in Ecotherapy. She is an educator, public speaker, and workshop facilitator.
