Together again! Ali McGhee on NOMAD

Name: Together again! Ali McGhee on NOMAD
Start: 2025-08-29T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-29T10:00:00-04:00
Location: The Grey Eagle

Schedule

Fri Aug 29 2025 at 08:30 am to 10:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

The Grey Eagle | Asheville, NC

Reserve your spot at this free event at https://creativemornings.com/cities/avl
Doors open at 8:30 AM for morning coffee and snacks. Our program starts at 9:00!
Our theme for August is NOMAD. It was chosen by our Ulaanbaatar chapter in Mongolia and illustrated by Oyuna Bold.
Some people feel compelled to travel from place to place. To live outside the confines and constraints of a permanent address. Others have no choice but to leave home in search of a better life. A nomad embraces discomfort and welcomes the unknown.
Whether you’re racking up frequent flyer miles or navigating a change in your creative career, remember that motion fuels imagination. Wander. Wonder. Repeat.
OUR SPEAKER: Ali McGhee
Ali McGhee, PhD, is the Director and CEO of the Enneagram School of Awakening and the Co-Director and Chief Communications Officer of Appalachian Psychedelic Society. A creative writer, journalist, and speaker, her work has been published in the MAPS Bulletin, Lucid News, Chacruna Chronicles, Scalawag, Atlantic Studies, Dark Mountain, AVLtoday, Asheville Grit, and others, and she been featured on stages for Psychedelic Science, Psychedelic Culture, PechaKucha, Listen to This, the International Enneagram Association (IEA) Global Conference, and the Woods and Wilds Storytelling Festival. She is a member of the Chacruna Chronicles Editorial Team, sits on the Story Board for narrative arts space Story Parlor, and co-hosts a weekly live radio show, "Slumber Party," on 103.3 Asheville FM. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Asheville, NC with her artist husband, wildling daughter, and a small crew of anxious animals. She is obsessed with plant identification, making her a potentially tiresome hiking partner. She is trying very hard to finish her SF/horror novel about people turning into trees and will be fleeing into the woods later this year as the recipient of a North Carolina Artist Support Grant to work on it.