The purpose of the ecoSelf project is to encourage people to live in ecological balance – motivated through a sense of ecological identity.
This ‘ecological identity’, or sense of the ecological Self, is one that is conscious that we are each part of the Earth’s wider ecology. We are ecological beings – totally dependant on, and interdependent with, the rest of nature.
Realising the ecological Self also brings personal healing because the individual can be healed as part of the larger body of the Earth.
Wild nature seems to provide a powerful context for processes of ecological Self realisation to unfold naturally and so ‘wilderness work’ forms the core of my programmes and projects.
Currently I design and facilitation the Natural Change Project for WWF, and provide professional development courses to help people learn how to facilitate ecological Self realisation programmes.
I also teach Ecopsychology at Schumacher College in Devon and pursue various independent research projects around the subjects of ecopsychology, transpersonal psychology and deep ecological approaches to social change for sustainability.
