Custom programs

Custom Workshops, Retreats, and Presentations

Wild Rhythms offers a variety of custom workshops, presentations, and retreats to help participants increase awareness, experience the outdoors, and deepen their connection to the world of spirit, animals, and the earth.  These fun, thoughtful, and experientially-based programs are available for groups, businesses, and organizations upon request.

Programs can last a few hours or be expanded to a few days in a retreat format. While Deb lives in Colorado, she is happy to travel nationally and internationally.

Workshops and Retreats

Workshops available:

  • Dancing with the Land
  • Our Wild Essence
  • Nature-based Spiritual Arts
  • The Nature of Creativity
  • Communicating with Nature and Animals
  • Nature Journaling

Each workshop can be modified to fit specific time frames, locations, participant numbers, etc. 

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Offering: Following a free, 20-30 minute consultation phone call, Deb will email a written, no-obligation proposal based on workshop length, location, number of participants, and other workshop details.

Please submit the form below, and Deb will get back to you to schedule a phone call.

Program Descriptions

Dancing with the Land

Feel yourself be moved by the land around you. Explore rhythms and patterns existing in nature. Find those rhythms within your own body. In this workshop, we will get outside and dance with the land. By combining solo and group activities based around movement and reflection, we will experience this sacred conversation with all of life. This workshop can be catered to experienced dancers as well as those with no dance experience at all.

Our Wild Essence

Have you ever wondered about how our culture uses the word “wild”? So often, wild has a negative connotation. It is used to mean unruly, inappropriate, or out of control. In this workshop, we will reclaim the word and the meaning. We will explore our wild selves in relation to the beauty and mystery of the wild world. This workshop combines time alone with group activity as we embark on this important exploration.  Drawing from work in the arts, ecopsychology, natural history, experiential education, and sense of place is a main focal point of this workshop.

Nature-based Spiritual Arts

Often people feel the need to travel to exotic places in order to feel a spiritual connection to the world around them. While these places can indeed be magical, it is imperative that we be able to sense the sacred in the world right outside our doors. Through various activities focusing on communication and connection with nature, opportunities for reflection, and group discussion, we will reconnect with the life force moving through everything, everywhere.

The Nature of Creativity

Your creative patterns can often be a mystery to us. The muse may strike at odd or inopportune times. Some of us work slowly and steadily on a project while others may work more intensely for short periods of time. Through various outdoor, arts-based activities, this workshop will allow participants to explore the creative cycles in nature and find them reflected within. Participants will leave with a solid understanding of their own natural rhythms of creativity and a deeper appreciation for the rhythms of creativity in the world around us.

Communicating with Nature and Animals

During this workshop, we will extend the idea of conversation to include the more-than-human world.  Through various activities alone and in groups, we will explore what it means to communicate beyond our species, how we can hone and develop our skills, and what it means to live in a world full of voices.

Nature Journaling

During this workshop, we will explore the possibilities and potentials of recording our time in nature personally – through keeping a journal.  We will experiment with observations, sensory awareness, writing, art activities, and personal reflection.  Nature journaling is fun and inspirational for all ages, and this workshop can be adapted for any age group.

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“Deb’s presentations have inspired and supported the work of many of our members and environmental educators across as the state.  Her presentations are engaging, informative, and fill an important niche in the field.  She consistently receives rave reviews from our conference attendees and is a presenter our attendees look for year after year.”

Katie Navin, Director, Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education

“I’ve worked side by side with Deb Matlock for over 15 years, co-presenting and planning countless nature hikes and training workshops for volunteer naturalists and the public. She is without a doubt one of my favorite collaborators: fun, smart, dynamic and always brings fantastic ideas that never would have occurred to me!”

Dave Sutherland, Interpretive Naturalist

“Deb is a gifted presenter. She makes connections on all levels and engages all who participate.  We need more thinkers like Deb Matlock!”

L.D.,  Boulder, CO

“Deb Matlock is a skilled facilitator who connects with the audience by asking thought-provoking questions and allowing ample space for self-reflection. She is intuitive to the needs of the group and goes above and beyond to create a lasting experience.”

J.F. Longmont, CO