Pegi Eyers, Featured Faculty Presenter
Pacifica Online
New Thinking, Best Practices and Emerging Modalities
Ecotherapy is a rapidly growing field as increasing numbers of psychological and cultural leaders are inspired to address the urgent need for healing the wounded human-nature relationship. Exciting new ideas from theorists, therapists, researchers and educators are now expanding our perspectives and practices. This course will offer live online presentations by a stellar array of cutting-edge ecotherapy pioneers, spotlighting their latest thinking and work. Following these presentations, students can engage in live Q&A with these experts (which will also be recorded.) Additionally, students can attend live, online peer consultation groups facilitated by an ecotherapy specialist, each week to help them discuss and integrate their learnings.
This course is designed to inspire you to create or expand your own ecotherapy thinking and practice. By introducing you to the latest ideas from cutting-edge authors and practitioners, it will prepare you to address current challenges in the field and in your local and online personal and professional communities; create and present your own material; educate colleagues and students in your area and beyond; create and present your own innovative practices and publications.
This unique program, offered online over 13 weeks, is taught by a stellar group of cutting-edge thinkers and practitioners in the rapidly evolving field of ecotherapy. Whether you are a licensed clinician or health care practitioner interested in expanding your current healing practice to include nature-connection therapies, or an educator, guide, coach, social worker, public health expert, artist or community activist, this extensive exploration of the latest thinking in ecotherapy will offer new approaches and creative ideas and activities to pursue. Ecotherapy focuses on the synergy between human well-being and the health of the planet, so this course also addresses the importance of the psychological and social justice issues raised by the rapidly degenerating human-nature relationship.
Live Expert Spotlight Learning Sessions
August 8, 2023
How Ecotherapy is Rapidly Evolving with Linda Buzzell, LMFT
August 15, 2023
The Latest Advances in Equine Facilitated Wellness with Kate Burns, MSW
August 22, 2023
Recovery from Eco-Narcissism with Jeanine Canty, Ph.D.
August 29, 2023
The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Wellness-Informed Approach to Living with Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D.
September 5, 2023
Beauty Might Just Save the Earth (or at Least Your Life on Earth) with Trebbe Johnson
September 12, 2023
Our Relationship with the Sacred with Pegi Eyers
September 19, 2023
How to Incorporate Ecotherapy into an Existing, Conventional Psychotherapy Practice with Jennifer Udler, LCSW
September 26, 2023
The Earthy Imaginal: How Nature speaks to us through dreams, images and synchronicities with Lauren Z. Schneider, LMFT
October 3, 2023
Reconnecting: Can psychedelics help humanity remember our place in the web of life with Dr. Rosalind Watts
October 10, 2023
Encountering “Ecological Emotions” and Eco-Anxiety with Panu Pihkala, Ph.D.
October 17, 2023
Community Ecopsychology: Moving Beyond Psychology’s Individualistic Focus
with Carol Koziol, Ph.D.
October 24, 2023
Creating Spaces for Collective Healing with LaUra Schmidt
October 31, 2023
Ecopsychotherapy with Mary-Jayne Rust
Ecotherapy is a rapidly growing field as increasing numbers of psychological and cultural leaders are inspired to address the urgent need for healing the wounded human-nature relationship. Exciting new ideas from theorists, therapists, researchers and educators are now expanding our perspectives and practices. This course will offer live online presentations by a stellar array of cutting-edge ecotherapy pioneers, spotlighting their latest thinking and work. Following these presentations, students can engage in live Q&A with these experts (which will also be recorded.) Additionally, students can attend live, online peer consultation groups facilitated by an ecotherapy specialist, each week to help them discuss and integrate their learnings.
This course is designed to inspire you to create or expand your own ecotherapy thinking and practice. By introducing you to the latest ideas from cutting-edge authors and practitioners, it will prepare you to address current challenges in the field and in your local and online personal and professional communities; create and present your own material; educate colleagues and students in your area and beyond; create and present your own innovative practices and publications.
This unique program, offered online over 13 weeks, is taught by a stellar group of cutting-edge thinkers and practitioners in the rapidly evolving field of ecotherapy. Whether you are a licensed clinician or health care practitioner interested in expanding your current healing practice to include nature-connection therapies, or an educator, guide, coach, social worker, public health expert, artist or community activist, this extensive exploration of the latest thinking in ecotherapy will offer new approaches and creative ideas and activities to pursue. Ecotherapy focuses on the synergy between human well-being and the health of the planet, so this course also addresses the importance of the psychological and social justice issues raised by the rapidly degenerating human-nature relationship.
Live Expert Spotlight Learning Sessions
August 8, 2023
How Ecotherapy is Rapidly Evolving with Linda Buzzell, LMFT
August 15, 2023
The Latest Advances in Equine Facilitated Wellness with Kate Burns, MSW
August 22, 2023
Recovery from Eco-Narcissism with Jeanine Canty, Ph.D.
August 29, 2023
The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Wellness-Informed Approach to Living with Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D.
September 5, 2023
Beauty Might Just Save the Earth (or at Least Your Life on Earth) with Trebbe Johnson
September 12, 2023
Our Relationship with the Sacred with Pegi Eyers
September 19, 2023
How to Incorporate Ecotherapy into an Existing, Conventional Psychotherapy Practice with Jennifer Udler, LCSW
September 26, 2023
The Earthy Imaginal: How Nature speaks to us through dreams, images and synchronicities with Lauren Z. Schneider, LMFT
October 3, 2023
Reconnecting: Can psychedelics help humanity remember our place in the web of life with Dr. Rosalind Watts
October 10, 2023
Encountering “Ecological Emotions” and Eco-Anxiety with Panu Pihkala, Ph.D.
October 17, 2023
Community Ecopsychology: Moving Beyond Psychology’s Individualistic Focus
with Carol Koziol, Ph.D.
October 24, 2023
Creating Spaces for Collective Healing with LaUra Schmidt
October 31, 2023
Ecopsychotherapy with Mary-Jayne Rust
PEGI EYERS ~ Week 6 - September 12
Our Relationship with the Sacred
It is essential for all people today to restore our bonds with nature as the ground of our being, and the source of our healing and spiritual life. And yet, there are ethics and protocols to consider. How do we learn “best practices” on Turtle Island, adopt an attitude of respect and humility, and engage with social justice issues? This session by Pegi Eyers will touch on cultural sensitivity in terms of good allyship with First Nations, how to avoid cultural appropriation, and how our own ethnocultural recovery can play a part in nature immersion. We have inherited a society full of discord and crisis, and at the core of our work is the challenge to shift our patterns of western thinking to the wholeness of ancestral mind. The animist worldview offers a direct interface with nature, aligns us with the sacred in each other and Earth Community, and inspires us to find authenticity in our mythopoetic expressions of art, ritual and ceremonies on the land.
It is essential for all people today to restore our bonds with nature as the ground of our being, and the source of our healing and spiritual life. And yet, there are ethics and protocols to consider. How do we learn “best practices” on Turtle Island, adopt an attitude of respect and humility, and engage with social justice issues? This session by Pegi Eyers will touch on cultural sensitivity in terms of good allyship with First Nations, how to avoid cultural appropriation, and how our own ethnocultural recovery can play a part in nature immersion. We have inherited a society full of discord and crisis, and at the core of our work is the challenge to shift our patterns of western thinking to the wholeness of ancestral mind. The animist worldview offers a direct interface with nature, aligns us with the sacred in each other and Earth Community, and inspires us to find authenticity in our mythopoetic expressions of art, ritual and ceremonies on the land.
