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Looking back: Who read what in 2019?
January is the perfect time to look back on the year that’s gone and forward to what’s planned for the months ahead. It’s looking good as the statistics suggest that the most popular topics of 2019 are exactly the ones … Continue reading
Posted in Embodied ecology
Tagged Abram, connection, deep ecology, embodied knowing, embodiment, environment, epoc, Mazis, nature, psychotherapy
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It’s not what you know …
… it’s the way that you know it. I sometimes have a name ‘on the tip of my tongue’. I’m sure you know that odd feeling; you both know and don’t know at the same time. We make sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged awareness, climate crisis, cognitive iceberg, connection, embodied knowing, epoc, Sacred Ecology, therapy
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The Embodied Pathways of Connection in Therapy
My previous post introduced the EPOC, embodied practices that can reveal our radical interconnectedness. I initially came across the EPOC during my PhD research into spiritual eco-activism: The EPOC both inspired and supported the campaigners I worked with (Harris, 2008). … Continue reading
Posted in Psychotherapy
Tagged Abram, connection, ecotherapy, embodied knowing, epoc, Focusing, Gendlin, meditation, psychedelics, psychotherapy
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The Embodied Pathways of Connection
What links mindfulness, psychedelics, nature connection, ritual and the therapeutic technique of Focusing? They can all help us access to our deepest embodied knowing and awaken us from the illusion of separation. For Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk and … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged connection, embodied knowing, embodiment, environment, epoc, Focusing, Gendlin, meditation, nature, psychedelics, spirituality
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Glen Mazis & David Abram discuss embodied ecology
Last year I was invited to host the ecology thread for the ‘Embodiment Conference’. Who would I recommend to speak on the subject of embodied ecology? Two thinkers immediately came to mind who have been a huge influence on my … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged Abram, connection, deep ecology, embodied knowing, Mazis, Merleau-Ponty, senses
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Charles Eisenstein interview
I was delighted to interview Charles Eisenstein as part of the Embodiment Conference, 2018. The interview has recently been released as a podcast and this was the first time I’d sat and listened to it. I initially heard how his … Continue reading
Posted in Embodiment
Tagged activism, body, connection, deep ecology, Eisenstein, embodiment, nature
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The Connected Self
“No man is an island”, wrote John Donne and his poetic insight is borne out by research. In the West, we think the self is somehow enclosed with the body, separate from other selves. This sense of independence is sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Psychotherapy
Tagged bodymind, connection, embodiment, emotions, neuroscience, psychology, psychotherapy, therapy
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Philip Shepherd
How can we escape from the heady over-analytic thinking that our culture is caught up in? Philip Shepherd proposes a path to “radical wholeness” that’s grounded in the deep wisdom of the body (Shepherd, 2017). Western culture has long prioritized … Continue reading
Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein is a new voice for me, but his words resonate deeply and fill me with hope. Eisenstein on the gift economy is well worth a read, but I’m going to focus on his more recent work as it … Continue reading
Glen Mazis
Glen Mazis is a philosopher and poet whose writing frequently merges both skills. I came across his book Earthbodies (2002) during my PhD research on embodied knowing and found it hugely exciting. Mazis explains that ‘bodies’ are much more than … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged Abram, connection, embodied knowing, embodiment, environment, Gendlin, Merleau-Ponty, philosophy, skin-bag body
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