Ecopsychology, Place & Self

This powerful workshop helps us re-enchant our relationships with our felt living world. Our sense of place in this world, and our eco-psychological relationships with everything – forests, rivers, gardens, towns, more-than-human beings, highways even – everything – are fundamental needs. These deepest relationships are bound with healthy identity, belonging, and having purpose in the world.

This workshop explores sense of place and eco-psychological approaches that offer us tools and skills, ideas and language, and vital ways to find our place in the world. All of this is located within a body of literature and supported by an essential design tool.

Many people in the world feel displaced or have had their relationship to the places they grew up in, or to nature in general, disrupted. We have so many relations with the world around us. What are they? What are their qualities? What do our childhood experiences have to do with these? What of literal and metaphorical relationships? How can we make our world come truly alive again in our minds and hearts?

This workshop supports, challenges and empowers us to make sense of your sense of place in this changing world. Participants will learn about sensing place, ecopsychology, several place making exercises and will emerge from this workshop with step-by-step plans for change.

What's included: All day workshop facilitated by Dr Charlie Brennan of Garden Juju Collective, with catering sourced from Feed You Farm, a peri-urban edible garden cultivated by Preston local and Oakhill Food Justice Farmer, Jemma Stefanou.

Tickets: $195 with concessional pricing for students, pensioners and Darebin residents with financial barriers preventing participation ($95). Please reach out to Charlie at cwsbrennan@gmail.com if this pricing structure remains prohibitive for your personal circumstances.