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Want to thank Nick Totton for putting me on to this website. As Administrator and part of the Events Team for The Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain (AHPB – http://www.ahpb.org.uk) I shall be back visiting the website to enquire whether any of the practitioners listed here might be interested in attending / giving workshops at our annual Festival, to be held next year at Green and Away 16 – 18th July. We expect much of the Festival to centre around Climate Change, but not exclusively. I would be pleased if we could attract members of the Ecopsychology movement to our Festival if only to make an actual as well as a metaphoric hand holding in what I see as a growing circle of like minded organisations. It strikes me as very important that this hand holding grows in order to build the strength required to maintain resilience and sustainability in our efforts to educate the mass of the world to the necessary changes that have to be made in the lifestyles of the world’s populations. Julian Nangle
Project 5am is about capturing and following the essence of being in the moment. It an site which falls on various levels. It can be viewed as a celebration of creativity or as a 2 year old diary of exploring a moment of enlightenment. The cryptic aspect of the site reflects the Allen Ginsberg poem 5am that it was inspired from and the mystic of the people, stories and philosophies that I have encountered on my journey. The aim is for the reader to connect with references that are on the site and put into there own context because questions answers life. 5am is an eternal project that has given me so much joy, growth and knowledge and I hope that it gives people the same yellow feeling like it has given me…come drink live.
I am interested in Save our World joining your on-line community, and exchanging links, because our philosophy is so closely connected with yours – as you will see by visiting our web-site.
I was involved with environmental campaigning back in the 1980’s with a WDM group in Nottingham. We read Paulo Friere’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” together, and I think that book has been a background influence ever since. It became quite clear at the time that attempting to change other people’s opinions and ideas was an exercise in hubris without some fundamental internal personal changes – there’s a great value in “walking the talk” rather than filling the world with even more shoulds and oughts. Just a few of the useful influences since then – Zhixing Wang’s Hua Gong, Birth Process Work, HeartMath, SensoriMotor work, lots of Craniosacral Therapy and practicing the teachings of Bruno Groening – I experience all of these are mind-body practices. There is a huge wisdom in the body. But, if the consciousness is not able to access the body fully, then the mind is controlled by the animal body rather than the other way round. Fears, suvival mechanisms, primitive alarm systems, hindbrain reflex circuits – all these take over daily behaviour and we become driven rather than conscious masters of our own life. The more I practice as a therapist and also work with my own material, the more I realise that most of us are living in a disconnected state, and the roots of this often stem from past generations – the industrial revolution and two world wars have left scars that continue through to today. There is a lot of healing to be done. Tracing our way back to our necessary point of relation to this planet is not impossible, but there are many, many steps that need to be rediscovered. The most important lost pathways are inside us all, and the Body WANTS to remember itself. We only need to remember how to listen to it.