'Ecopsychology, Place & Healing' Weekend Workshop with Dr. Charlie Brennan and Bridget O'Brien

OFFERED IN COLLABORATION WITH GARDEN JUJU COLLECTIVE

A weekend of exploring sense of place and ecopsychology. How can we cultivate abundant, healthy places and people?

Saturday theme is Ecopsychology, Place & Self. (Exploration).

Our sense of place in this world and our ecopsychological relationships with everything – including forests, rivers, gardens, towns, more-than-human beings, highways, climate change, beliefs about nature – are fundamental to us. These are our deepest relationships and are bound with our senses of safety, belonging, identity and having a purposeful place in our world.

Exploring sense of place and ecopsychology offers us tools and skills, ideas and language. These are ways to find our wellbeing, are a body of literature and can be used as an essential design tool.

We have so many relations with the world around us. What are they? What are their qualities? What might our childhood experiences have to do with these? What of literal and metaphorical relationships? Participants will learn about sensing place, ecopsychology, a series of place making exercises and will emerge …changed. This powerful approach helps us illuminate and re-enchant our relationships with our felt living world.

Sunday theme is Healing Self and Land. (Application).

It has almost become radical to live life centered around principles and practices of care and healthy living. The range of harms being done to, and experienced by, people, communities, more-than-human species and ecosystems grows and grows and is often overwhelming and paralyzing. How can we make life – and all our relationships that make life – healthier?

Workshop day 2 identifies ways that we can take action. Through building participants’ own self-care and land-care practices as we develop approaches to co-healing people and the planet. Activities include a deep exploration of core needs, an outline of collective trauma and mapping ‘zones of care’. Our ‘15 ways to co-heal people and planet’ booklet offers inspiration and a set of activities for healing and facing into harms and collective trauma.

This weekend workshop will be held in ways that are stimulating, supportive, nourishing and restorative. What are our place and ecopsychological relationships and how can we co-heal these? Participants will come away with insights, ideas, tools as well as clear practical next steps in their lives.

Dates: September 17th & 18th
Times: 10am-5pm each day
Ages: Adults only
Location: Viroqua
Materials Fee: $10

Sliding Scale Course Fee Guidelines (not including Materials Fees)

Supporter Level Ticket: $220
If you move through the world with financial ease and the means to fulfill many of your wants as well as your needs – you are able to eat out when you want, abundantly meet your needs through employment or can comfortably not work, have access to family wealth, own property, etc. – consider paying at this level, which will help us ensure the long term sustainability of our programs while keeping our offerings accessible to those with access to fewer resources.

Sustainer Level Ticket: $170
If you are able to meet your needs with relative ease while budgeting your educational and entertainment spending – for instance, you are able to take classes and eat out occasionally as long as you are mindful – consider paying at this level, which will help sustain the work of the Folk School at a modest level.

Supported Level Ticket: $120
If you struggle to fund your basic needs and have limited access to resources in your family and community, or if you would not be able to access this offering without a discounted payment option, consider paying at this level. We value your presence and contributions to our community and do not want any economic circumstances to be a barrier to attendance!