Kathleen Donchak, PhD

Nature-Connected Narrative Practice Teacher, Pacific Northwest

I teach nature-connected narrative practice.

I help people navigate life through a seasonal lens, understanding their sensitivity and creative patterns as part of their natural design.My work grows from the recognition that for those who experience life with emotional intensity, developing a personal relationship with place through narrative practice isn't a luxury but essential medicine.


Current Work & Publications

Natural Hours: A Practice Memoir
(Available August 2025)
Digital/Print chapbook memoir, 38 pages.
This intimate practice memoir demonstrates how fragments captured through nature-connected narrative practice became patterns, and how those patterns reveal a way of living that honors intensity rather than managing it. Through four years of Sunday Letters and decades of nature-connected journaling, it reveals how your relationship to place becomes the foundation for discovering your natural voice and living from your natural sense of self rather than external prescription.


Seasonal Reflections

Brief email reflections delivered as a 5-day seasonal ritual marking each transition. Glimpses into how seasonal awareness becomes life navigation, then space for you to continue your own practice.Each season brings its own quality of attention and invitation for deeper awareness. These reflections explore the wisdom that emerges when we align with natural cycles of transition and change.Five days of seasonal reflection delivered to your inbox, then space for your own seasonal practice to unfold.
$25 per season

Fall 2025 begins September - join the waiting list to be notified when I open registration


Services

Individual Sessions help you discover how to navigate life through a seasonal lens with nature-connected narrative practice. Practitioner Training offers comprehensive materials and personalized mentorship to develop your own practice and learn to guide others. Climate Recovery Support provides specialized practices for rebuilding relationship with place after environmental trauma. Teaching & Consultation available for graduate programs and organizations developing nature-based approaches.Get in touch to explore how this work might serve you.


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