Jodi Paloni is a place-based writer and writing/book coach specializing in the Gateless Writing Method, the Gestalt Cycle of Experience work out of the Gestalt International Study Center, and Sequencing: Making is Knowing originating from the River Gallery School in Vermont. She is also a student of Sounds True’s The Power of Awareness, a mindfulness approach to wellbeing. It’s the weaving of these methodologies and others that inspires her teachings on the magical seacoast of Maine, USA, and in other parts of the world.

American author, Eudora Welty, said, “It is by knowing where you stand that you grow able to judge where you are.” Place-based centering and honoring the more-than human world is at the crux of Jodi’s facilitation. A descendent of Italian grandparents who immigrated to the US from the Marche region, just east of Umbria, she looks forward to immersing in creativity with others within the landscape of her ancestral roots.

As well, Jodi is the author of the linked story collection, They Could Live with Themselves, runner-up for the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, a finalist for the Maine Book Award, and an Indie Publishers Award Silver Medal.