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The stirrings felt in the ecosystems of mind and heart are mirrored by the shifting tides on a global scale. The planet-sized challenges that are increasingly the norm of our daily lives—climate change, ecosystem disruption, biodiversity loss, rampant social issues—impinge upon the very foundations of human health and the possibility of a viable future. In this scenario, anxiety and dysregulation, along with a long list of mental health issues, are often the blueprint for societal functioning, governed by the myth of endless progress at the expense of a living planet. Yet the Earth serves as the ever-present ground from which psychological resourcing and emotional regulation can emerge.CIIS professor in the East West Psychology Department at CIIS and integral ecopsychologist Adrián Villaseñor Galarza and trauma informed psychotherapist Amanda Morrison invite you to slow down and connect with Earth’s living body through a contemplative, eco-therapeutic, trauma-informed approach. Adrián and Amanda’s workshop is immersed in the beautiful garden of Urban Adamah, an educational farm and community center in Berkeley, California.
Throughout this unique workshop, Adrián and Amanda guide participants in restoring a sense of embodied connection, attentional aliveness, and inner resourcing through a combination of nature reconnection, meditation, group work, and lecture. Participants learn foundational concepts and practices to incorporate into their daily lives or as reference in their contemplative, eco-therapeutic work.
As the body-mind awakens to its Earthly belonging, a shift from reactivity to resourcefulness is activated, bringing about self-regulation, equanimity, and resilience. Together, we cultivate a more contemplative, resourced engagement with self and world by reformulating our conception of Earth as home, healer, teacher, and self.
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1151 Sixth Street,Berkeley,94710,US, United States
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