Event Name: Nurturing Your Nature: ADHD, Nature, & Creativity
Event Date(s): Sunday, 9/7/2025, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM, 6 hours
Ages Allowed: 16 - 99
Tickets Available: 20
Purchase Deadline: Friday, 9/5/2025 9:30 AM





Honouring Neurodivergence Through Nature and Creativity

Explore the vibrant intersection of neurodivergence, creative expression, and the healing power of nature in this immersive, one-day workshop. Designed especially for adults with ADHD or those who identify as neurodivergent, this experience offers a supportive, judgment-free space to reconnect with your natural rhythms—both inside and out.

Through guided indoor and outdoor mindfulness practices, creative exercises, and gentle self-reflection, participants will gain tools for emotional regulation, self-understanding, and personal growth. The workshop weaves together nature connection and expressive art-making to support attention, imagination, and well-being.

Whether you’re seeking inspiration, clarity, or calm, this day is an invitation to slow down, explore freely, and nurture your own unique way of being.

Lunch is included. Please dress for the weather and bring a journal or notebook, water, and any materials you enjoy using for creative expression (optional).


      EVENT INFORMATION   
  • Ticket Price: $285 NEBG Member Adult | $342 Non-Member Adult
  • Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025.
  • Time: 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location: New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
Ticket price includes day admission to the Garden.
   
    About the Artist – Shelley Lawrence Kirkwood 
 
       

Shelley Lawrence Kirkwood is an American photographer and writer whose work explores memory, place, and themes of transience depicted through the landscape. Deeply rooted in observation and attuned to the natural world, her practice blends fine art photography, literary sensibility, and curatorial insight.     

Kirkwood earned a BA in photography from Hampshire College and an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her formative years in New England and experience in curatorial departments helped shape her interdisciplinary approach. Since her first exhibition in 1994 at the Midtown Y Gallery in NYC, she has exhibited extensively across the US and internationally.  

She now lives and works in a restored 19th-century church in western Massachusetts. Her current work explores the fusion of 19th-century anthotype processes with contemporary photographic methods.  


      


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