Monthly Archives: September 2011

Thinking with place

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Administrator

I spend last week-end at an ecopsychology retreat in Lancashire. We were staying in a stone barn in the woods, very close to a peat stained river that surged over ancient rocks. On Saturday I paired up with a colleague for a ‘medicine walk’. … Continue reading →

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Nature Connection Workshops: Reflections

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Administrator

Back in the Spring I wrote about the new series of Nature Connection Workshops Karen and I had planned. Now I find myself in early Autumn preparing for the last workshop of the year. The more I do of this work the more … Continue reading →

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Being disembodied

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Administrator

Sociologist Ian Burkitt comments that our experience of the self has become “essentially disembodied” (Burkitt, 1999). In truth, we can’t be disembodied – unless you share Descartes’ weird belief in an incorporeal self – but many people experience life as … Continue reading →

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Eco-Paganism and place

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Administrator

I recently posted a guest blog on Adventures in Animism called ‘Eco-Paganism 101′. Eco-Paganism exemplifies several themes that I’ve been exploring here, so I want to flag them up. Eco-Pagans are animists, “people who recognise that the world is full of persons, only … Continue reading →

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