Eco-Psychotherapy

Eco-Psychotherapy

Being in relationship with the earth: A spiritual path?

If climate change is a symptom of our dysfunctional relationship with the earth, a step towards healing includes spending time on the land, listening to, and communing with, the other-than-human world. This opens the door to a different order of reality, an experience of living inside a conscious, sacred matrix; an ancient way of being. Along the way there may be many difficult and painful encounters with the shadow of our dominant culture; when this is honored our ecological crisis can then become an extraordinary portal of modern times. I will give some examples of how these issues come into sessions with clients and how I might enable clients to make a relationship with Nature. This includes working outdoors.

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THE SPEAKER

Mary-Jayne Rust

Mary-Jayne Rust is an ecopsychologist, art therapist and Jungian analyst. In the early 1990’s two journeys to the traditional culture of Ladakh alerted her to the seriousness of the ecological crisis and its psycho- spiritual roots. Alongside her private practice she writes, lectures and facilitates workshops in the field of ecopsychology – an inquiry into the psychological and spiritual dimensions of our relationship with the earth.

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