welcome, kindred traveler
welcome, kindred traveler
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“These poems challenge, comfort, and live beside you. They create worlds and examine the created world. They are heart and bone. This is the poetry of true connection.”
- CMarie Fuhrman, author of Salmon Weather, co-editor of Cascadia and Native Voices
- CMarie Fuhrman, author of Salmon Weather, co-editor of Cascadia and Native Voices
Michelle Latvala is an experienced leader, facilitator, and author with a deep commitment to humanity, nature, and authenticity. She currently serves as Faculty for David Whyte's Institute for Conversational Leadership, previously led Spirit Rock Meditation Center as Executive Director from 2011-2022, and was Vice President of Leadership Development at Backroads Active Travel from 2000-2010. Michelle's debut book Between Latitudes was published by Green Writers Press earlier this year, profoundly addressing themes of climate, ancestry, bodies, nature, kinship and more through her accessible, intimate, and deeply relevant poetry. In 2023, Michelle founded Insight Outside, a series of remote programs that combine meditation, writing, and wilderness, and became part of an international cohort funded by the Bess Family Foundation, centered around expanding Buddhist teachings in nature. She graduated from Stanford University with Phi Beta Kappa honors in Social Psychology. Michelle migrates thoughtfully with her beloveds between responsibilities in northern California and eastern Alaska, where she built a cabin at the same latitude her Finnish ancestors lived for centuries in the circumpolar boreal forest.
Michelle Latvala is an experienced leader, facilitator, and author with a deep commitment to humanity, nature, and authenticity. She currently serves as Faculty for David Whyte's Institute for Conversational Leadership, previously led Spirit Rock Meditation Center as Executive Director from 2011-2022, and was Vice President of Leadership Development at Backroads Active Travel from 2000-2010. Michelle's debut book Between Latitudes was published by Green Writers Press earlier this year, profoundly addressing themes of climate, ancestry, bodies, nature, kinship and more through her accessible, intimate, and deeply relevant poetry. In 2023, Michelle founded Insight Outside, a series of remote programs that combine meditation, writing, and wilderness, and became part of an international cohort funded by the Bess Family Foundation, centered around expanding Buddhist teachings in nature. She graduated from Stanford University with Phi Beta Kappa honors in Social Psychology. Michelle migrates thoughtfully with her beloveds between responsibilities in northern California and eastern Alaska, where she built a cabin at the same latitude her Finnish ancestors lived for centuries in the circumpolar boreal forest.
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