Ecopsychology
course and open talks at re•vision
"What is the pain we feel - and desperately try not to feel - in this planet- time? It is pain for the world... It is the pain of the world itself, experienced in each of us..." Joanna Macy
Open Talks 2012
27 Jan Crazy Wisdom and Ecological Crisis Mary-Jayne Rust
24 Feb Transformative Liminality? Chris Robertson
23 March Rediscovering Kinship with Nature Joan Crawford
All talks 6-8 pm at 97 Brondesbury Road, Queens Park, NW6 6RY
Fee is £20 (concessions £15). For details contact 02083578881 in office hours
This course is from 18 November 2011 – 16 June 2012
This course aims to cast:
a green eye on psychological
The shift from ego-centric to eco-centric calls for:
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an appreciation of beauty and compassion as healing gifts of the earth
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a humbling recognition that cultural symptoms such as dissociation, depression and grief, need nature to heal
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acknowledgement that the distress of borderland/sensitive clients is symptomatic of a collective anguish
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deconstructing the cultural distortions of our relationship to the nonhuman world.
a psychological eye on ecology
Our apparent stubbornness to respond to ecological imperatives needs deeper reflection on the complex dilemmas around such questions as:
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how to engage a lived experience of interdependence that cuts through our projections and rationalisations?
- are the destructive and violent aspects of human behaviour an inherent reflection of nature itself?
- might current human behaviour be seen as acting out a collective trauma?
For whom?
The training is for those in the helping professions who want to integrate the challenge of ecological awareness into their work and for those engaged in ecological action who wish to deepen their understanding and to learn a relational craft.