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Sunday 11th April 2010 9.30 - 4pm
VOCAL, 8 Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2PW
Ecopsychology is an emerging discipline which brings together ideas from ecology and psychology, with a core assumption being that our wellbeing is intimately connected to that of the earth.
Whilst approaches such as family systems theory address an individual’s relation with others, ecopsychology takes this further and seeks to also include our relationship to the earth.
As the earth presents “symptoms” which increasingly cannot be ignored, e.g. climate change, extinction of species, etc. this workshop seeks to address how therapists can include ideas and practices from ecopsychology into their work.
Questions we will address include:
• Has western civilisation become “disconnected” from the natural world and, if so, can this split be healed?
• What do we split off and project onto nature?
Where is the “cut” we make between ourselves and the world?
• Could clients’ “personal problems” sometimes be seen as a microcosm of what is happening globally?
• How does the concept of the “ecological self” extend existing models of self? Early experience and the facilitating environment
• How can we help clients (and ourselves) rediscover the transformative power of nature and wild places and, in doing so, rediscover our “wild selves”?
The workshop will be facilitated by Ada Blair, a BACP-accredited counsellor and manager of a voluntary sector counselling agency in Edinburgh. She trained in both integrative and transpersonal approaches in Edinburgh and London and holds a Certificate in Ecopsychology from the Centre for Human Ecology at Strathclyde University. For over 20 years she has also been a campaigner for a number of local and international environmental organisations.
Booking details
Workshop cost: £40 per person
N.B. 20% of the cost will go to EVA (Ethical Voice for Animals)
www.ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk
(Lunch is not included but there are shops and cafes close by)
The building is fully accessible and there are bus stops and parking facilities nearby.
Please return the tear-off slip below and payment to:
Ada Blair
Caladach Therapeutic Services
28 Lady Menzies Place
Edinburgh
EH7 5BA
caladach@blueyonder.co.uk
Please make cheques payable to “Ada Blair”
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