Abstract: Energy correlators are a class of cleverly constructed collider observables that provides unique insights into the field theory structure and phenomenology of QCD. In this talk, I study the leading nonperturbative contribution to energy correlators using field theory methods and discuss the universality across event shape observables of such contributions. I show that correctly including the nonperturbative improves our theoretical description of the transition to the confinement region as observed from data. In particular, I demonstrate that including nonperturbative corrections has a significant impact on the extraction of the strong coupling constant using energy correlators.