I've been reflecting a lot lately on reciprocity – that beautiful exchange where giving and receiving happens simultaneously, and both parties benefit. This certainly takes place a great deal on our planet and ecologically. But we also know that we as humans thrive when there's...
It is especially important as we address climate change because, without healthy and proper communication, people aren't as likely to take action. There can be further divisiveness and separation between people not to mention that the coming together and the dialogue just doesn't feel as...
I know that humility is an eco-psychological quality that we do well to embrace. Humility emerges naturally when we live close to our planet that includes the beauty, complexity, and interdependence of all of this wide web of earth that we share – and the...
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....