1. Ponder your relationship with grief, loss, and death. Considering how painful these experiences are, what are healthy and positive qualities of your processing and relationships with them? What doesn’t serve you about your coping; what can you learn, what practices can you create...
In an example of Psychological Biomimicry, someone recently spoke of the importance of death, loss, and change for regenerating life. Another talked about the permaculture principle of 'waste as food'. Each of these dovetailed nicely with already existing principles from EPI"s Psychological Biomimicry Tool Kit,...
We must create regenerative psychologies that permeate how we live: our work, our leadership, our community engagement, and how we interact with the planet. This is an opportunity (and an example of Psychological Biomimicry) to look to the natural world, its principles, processes, and key...
We must find ways to slow down – to find greater spaciousness and time – so that we may align with the rhythm and paces of our planet. Therefore, the practice I'm encouraging is the pause. It's the space between an inhale and exhale and...
1. Ponder your relationship with grief, loss, and death. Considering how painful these experiences are, what are healthy and positive qualities of your processing and relationships with them? What doesn’t serve you about your coping; what can you learn, what practices can you create...
Through these rites of passage that we all need to go through to emerge into something more beautiful and better… there is often pain. May I remember that and not run away from it and even lean into it. May I lean into my own...
Individuals have a critical role to play in the healing and the change that is needed. But, our larger goals for our world are harder to realize unless businesses, institutions, nonprofits and community groups integrate ecopsychology and live aligned with the principles of the planet....
Not only is darkness and shadow important ecologically for the whole, but it's true psychologically that we're in a balanced and healthy relationship with this. Because if we don't, as we see in the world around us and probably also in our own lives, shadow...
This practice opens our hearts with wonder and gratitude and love, so that we may become more present in our day-to-day with our foods, with the people around us, and with our communities. The ripples that enabled us to have this food, we can extend...
Yes, autumn is coming. I am not just talking about the shifting weather, light and colors in New England either. I am also talking just as much symbolically and psychologically, as a species, society and planet. We are living in transitions as great changes are...