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Ecopsychology Institute
The driving premise of the Ecopsychology Institute is that the Earth is a unified, related community of beings in a living universe. The Institute’s mission is to explore the human psyche’s part in this community.
Recognizing that human health and the health of the Earth are inseparable, the Institute develops theories and practices that engender ecological consciousness and sustainable human-earth relationships. This mission is carried out through training, public education and other activities that evoke ecological consciousness.
The Institute began in 1994 as the Ecopsychology Roundtable, which grew out of a national gathering of psychologists, environmentalists and academics who convened the previous year to focus on the self/world connection.
Recent and current Institute activities include:
- A semester course for design professionals and the interested public at The Boston Architectural Center: Sustainable Design as a Way of Thinking. To contact the BAC, go to www.the-bac.edu.
- The Ecological Intelligence Project – An initiative through which professionals in key disciplines are being trained to enhance ecological identity in themselves and those with whom they come into contact. Some of the organizations involved to date include the Boston Society of Architects, the Northeastern Children’s Center, and the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (MA);
- A semester course (see below) for health care professionals on the self-world connection, taught for 15 years at The Cambridge Hospital in affiliation with Harvard Medical School;
- Trainings and presentations to health care, environmental and other professionals;
- Symposia, workshops and articles in journals and chapters in books;
- A videotape, Ecopsychology, produced in 1996 in association with the Foundation for Global Community of Palo Alto, CA.
Sarah A. Conn, Ph.D., the project director, is a clinical psychologist with a psychotherapy practice and a lecturer in psychology at Harvard Medical School. She leads seminars and trainings in ecopsychology, including the medical school’s semester course, and has authored articles and chapters on ecopsychology and health.
Information on upcoming courses and events:
Ecopsychology:
Health Care Theory and Practice in the Context of Wholeness
A ten-week course with Sarah A. Conn, Ph.D. investigating the human psyche in larger contexts, combining psychology, ecology and living systems theory to define and develop the principles of Ecopsychology. The course will:
• Explore the ecology of human experience through considering interconnections within culture and nature;
• Examine the ways the human psyche is colonized by modern culture to individualize and pathologize difficulties in living;
• Consider "individual symptoms" as signals from and information about the larger contexts;
• Work towards new understandings of health which include mindfulness of each individual’s place within the earth as a living system;
• Develop case materials and experiential practices which examine and demonstrate the psyche-in-the-larger-context; and
• Develop a community of people who can bring these understandings into their work.
Mondays, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m., Feb. 28, 2005 - May 9, 2005
(No class: 3/28)
Location: Cambridge Health Alliance,
Central Street Hospital, 26 Central St., Somerville, MA., Rm 3C-1
Tuition $500 (includes a set of readings)
Sarah A. Conn, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a psychotherapy practice in Arlington, MA, an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and a founding member of The Ecopsychology Institute.
To Register, send the following information:
Name:
Address:
Phone (home and work):
Email:
Occupation:
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How did you learn about this course?
Tuition Deposit ($100 when registering, balance due on first day of class). Please make check out to Sarah A. Conn, Ph.D.
Return to:
Sarah A. Conn, Ph.D.
The Ecopsychology Institute
226 Massachusetts Ave.
Arlington, MA 02474
781-646-8446
ecopsych@drsconn.com
"There is no inner world without the outer world."
Thomas Berry
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