About

The Mild Wild provides gatherings, creative practices, and experiences that bring women back into relationship with their own nature.

Founded by artist and facilitator Terese Elhard, The Mild Wild grew from fifteen years of leading women through movement, creativity, ritual, and time outdoors, alongside a life shaped by art, design, farming, and the navigating the seasons.

Our gatherings are built around beautiful places, shared meals, movement, making things with our hands, meaningful work, and enough room to wander.

At the center is a simple idea: our lives become more interesting when we pay attention to the living world around us—and allow it to change the way we create, work, gather, and move through our days.

The Portal Rhythm

Portal Productivity is the ongoing working practice of The Mild Wild.

Built for creative women with something they want to move forward, Portal combines live working sessions, practical structure, movement and the Elemental Focus framework to create a rhythm for beginning, continuing and finishing meaningful work.

Earth gives it structure. Water helps us listen. Fire creates momentum. Air brings clarity. Aether connects the work to the larger whole.

It’s a place to bring the business, artwork, writing, project or unfinished idea that keeps asking for your attention—and have somewhere to actually work on it.

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