Meet the Presenters
Curt and Nani Nehring Bliss are avid readers and writers who harbor a special love for the reflective impulse. With over 50 years’ experience between them as educators, instigators, and hosts, Curt has long served as a professor of English and Humanities at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua, New York, where Nani has also enjoyed a decades-long career in service to writing- and values-based initiatives campus wide, and extends these commitments to support initiatives nationwide. They owe much of their interest and innovation as reflective practitioners to Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking where both were trained and Curt remains as a Faculty Associate and member of the Institute’s Advisory Board. Beyond academics, Curt and Nani co-conspire to tender the sweet life in the Finger Lakes where they keep showing up, just your good neighbors doing their best to live lightly and make from scratch, to school and un-school, to cultivate and rewild, to make music and merry. And, if they’re lucky... to inspire an occasional moment of grace in this world of endless change.
For those interested in learning more from Curt and Nani, join us August 6-9th for our annual Craft Weekend! Curt and Nani will lead our Writing as Attentional Practice workshop.
Use writing as attentional practice. Explore writing as a tool for insight, resilience, and joy. Through prompts, readings, and shared reflection, this workshop invites you to deepen your connection with your inner voice and craft more honest, integrated stories of self.