February 12th, 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
$30 for members (use promo code WTR at checkout), $35 for non-members
PLEASE NOTE: We will be going outside (stepping away from our computers and phones) for a portion of our time together - rain, snow, or shine. In preparation, please have your journal and a timepiece at hand as well as weather-ready clothing.
About the Workshop:
In this experiential session with Dr. Hilary Leighton, we will step into nearby nature and conjure our moral imaginations.
Our particular way of being human has alienated us from nature and the co-creative, regenerative capacities of the more-than-human world. What if this dark and difficult time is not the end but a great call to more fully participate instead? To open to the vast and creative intelligence of life’s self-organizing powers expands our conceptualizations of what it means to be fully human, urges us to come back to life. This is an invitation to clear a practice space to pay closer attention and more deeply and spontaneously experience the living world, to remember our natural place within the web of life. In this experiential session, an adaptation of Macy & Young-Brown’s powerful, The Work That Reconnects (1998), we will step into nearby nature and conjure our moral imaginations in order to look into rather than merely at the life of Another, ‘speak’ with rather than about the more-than-human world. To have the largest conversation we can have with the world in this way cultivates compassion and an open reciprocity of relatedness, becomes an ethical act of radical (re)pair. Low risk nature-based approaches such as this are ideal expressions of applied ecopsychology that offer takeaways you can begin to use with clients right away.
Reference:
Macy, J. & Brown, M. (1998). Coming back to life. Practices to reconnect our lives, our world. New Society Publishers.
Facilitator:
A lifelong apprentice to nature and psyche, Dr. Hilary Leighton, Associate Professor in the School of Environment & Sustainability at Royal Roads University, and Eco-Psychotherapist & Registered Clinical Counsellor at True Nature Counselling & Psychotherapy, draws from embodied, arts and nature-based practices to reflect the ethical dilemma, suffering, and loss of our relationships with wildness, to re-embrace learning and development as an initiation toward wholeness and a deeper, more soulful way of belonging to the world. For the past 15 years, as a close study of Dr. Joanna Macy, she has facilitated The Work That Reconnects in undergraduate and graduate classes, public education and environmental conferences, and most significantly with her clients in (and out) of the session room.