I love how you describe creating awareness for yourself around other people’s body language and emotions on an everyday basis to be able to use that skill in coaching. I feel like that is such an important thing for me, BEING everyday and choosing to channel that into coaching. All of those little moments are like little thresholds that lead up to…

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I really hear in your words the intuitive awareness of how important setting up the container for the threshold is for the client to step into. Safety is such an important thing to me personally to be able to step into threshold and I very much resonate with this.

When I think of the word “threshold”, what comes to mind is entrance to another space, another room or to an outside environment. I think of the hundreds of times I cross thresholds everyday, and usually that crossing is precedented by a conscious decision to take action in someway, unless I am mindlessly, aimlessly wandering my house. When I go…

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I do agree, I created a polarity of thought in my post that intensified the focal point of difference between the worlds of ecopsychology and nature-connected coaching, mostly on purpose. I agree, not all ecopsychologists think the same way or come from a dualistic way of thinking. And we need people doing the ecopsychology work from a new…

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Simka,

I appreciate the global views presented here. This is my first exposure to the idea of Global North versus the Climate Justice movement and will be doing some curiosity-based discovery of the positions of both. I agree that environmentalism’s future seems pretty bleak on a global level, which is probably why I am such an individualist (see…

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I re-read the book excerpt to find out why I formed my initial opinion. I point to page 5 paragraph 2 where the author lays out the definition of ecopsychology. “Biophilia” is to me a form of nature-connection and presented as merely a hypothesis, whereas ecopsychology is the study of applying this hypothesis and must adhere to the scientific…

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Hi Lilia, I agree, I am generalizing to a large degree the trends and history of psychology. I do not think that all ecopsychologists come from this place but we were asked to come up with a difference and I allowed my biases to go free here (haha). This is why I did not become a psychologist though, as my perception of everything I learned is…

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Greg,

I was giggling to myself as I was reading this because of the internal struggle between the philosophy of science…and science. I can relate as a biology major. I love how the Coyote guide encourages us to become the scientist, studying nature and applying our own findings to our world-view and personal psyche. The beauty of it and freedom…

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Lilia,

What I hear in your words beyond the definition and delineation of therapy vs coaching, is that, whatever the name, an emphasis of giving back to nature is of core importance, requiring a real paradigm change of not using nature as just another humanistic tool that meets our human need to heal, but true nature-connectedness and relationship…

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Ecopsychology, I have come to understand based off of the readings assigned and being strongly influenced by the chapter from Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind (Roszak, T., Gomes, M.E., Kanner, A.D. (1995). Sierra Club Books.), is an evolution of modern psychology which attempts to account for the Natural world in human…

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