Bouncing Back with Ground Sense
Ground Sense Counselling offers a unique approach to addressing the interconnectedness of eco-social, eco-psychological, and eco-scientific aspects of our lives.
Eco Creative & Eco Cultural Inquiry for bouncing Back with Ground Sense is centered on developing eco-social, eco- psychological & eco scientific life skills for resilience of students, creatives, educators, and all kinds of learners with special needs.
I. Growing with Ecological Self, Sensemaking & Everydayness of Ecological Awakening
Module 1: Recovering Ground Sense with Self Healing, Rehabilitation & Restoration of Human-Nature Disconnect
The sessions are devoted to help exploring your Ecological Self Identity & Everyday Eco Cultures. The key points of reflection are -
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Human – Nature Connect & Disconnect
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Everyday Eco Cultures
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What Is My Ecological Self?
I take "ecopsychology" to mean psychology in service to the Earth.
ECO, PSYCHE, LOGOS: Knowing that the Earth is home to our soul....
In reality the human personality exists at the intersection of the ancient cycles of air and water and soil.
Without these there IS no self and any attempt to heal the
personality that doesn't acknowledge this fundamental
fact is doomed to failure”
- John Seed
(Ecopsychology Symposium, 28th Annual Conference, Australian Psychological Society, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 2/10/94, http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/ deep eco/seed.htm)
Module 2: Growing with Ecological Self, Sensemaking & Everydayness of Ecological Awakening
The sessions are devoted to help you grow with realization of Everydayness of Ecological Awakening. The key points of reflection are -
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Inner Voice for Eco-creative Healing
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Inner Voice Revelations for Human – Nature Reconnect
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Eco Creative Manifestations of Inner Voice
Module 3: Eco Selfhood & Recovery of Senses
The key points of recovery practices are -
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Claiming Sense of Eco Self Hood
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Revisiting the Sense Making Patterns
Practicums:
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Eco Creative Manifestations of Human- Nature Connections
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Exploring, Appreciating, Understanding & Claiming Your Eco-Identity
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Eco-creative, Eco Cultural Sense Making Exercises & Eco Healing
'Learning is Making'
— making sense, making a life, making ourselves.
II. Claiming The Sense of Eco Self Hood
Let us look with in and around us with total curiosity and Discover, Dream & Design!
Module 1: Claiming Eco Self Hood & Recovery of Senses
The sessions are devoted to help exploring your Ecological Self Identity & Everyday Eco Cultures. The key points of reflection are -
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Creative re alignment of our ecological self with the higher cause
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Continual re -contextualising our exchanges with interdependencies
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Creative metamorphoses of self and our relations with environment
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Re writing our own narratives-self talks, dialogues, and expansion of vocabulary
Practicums:
The Guardian Project Templates for exercices
We are given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
Module 2: Revisiting The Sense Making Patterns & Recovery From Sense Breaks
What is it to make an obvious sense of 'Value'?
The Crucial Lenses of this 'reflective' approach, the 'inquiry' and the 'visioning’!
The sessions are devoted to help you -
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Develop self-definitions as a major component of creative recovery
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Discover yourself drawing new boundaries and staking out new territories as your personal needs, desires, and interests
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Move yourself into your personal eco-creative identity, a self-defined, saner, you!
Practicums:
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Sense of Creative Recovery & Healing
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Creative recovery exercises in open mindedness
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Flora and fauna reports
The depth & power of this co-learning endeavour, is the Eco cultural Appreciation!
The core of this appreciation lies in our inner, innate ecological voices.
Exploration of inner eco voices is start of a deep process of unearthing the “value” which is central to the eco cultural!
So, it is a matter of bringing back faith in nature and the eco cultural mediation with its elements, which are lost in times of natural calamities or disruptions or even up under demonic pull of the desires to exploit it for short term material value.
The inner transformation of eco cultural nature would flow when our inheritance of ecological sense is freed of myriad of sense disrupters.
There are a lot more ways for renewers, eco creatives and makers of eco cultural heritage to rise and irrigate the eco cultural deserts.
Seeds of such action are best sown by encouraging and mentoring creative dissent and diversity, networking them and mentoring for kindling the narratives of public appreciation and deepening of the memorialization of eco cultural heritage, and nurturing them for making impact with eco visioning media or eco media.
As you learn to recognize, nurture, and protect your inner eco-creative genius, you will be able to move beyond pain and creative constriction.
You will learn ways to recognize and resolve fear, remove emotional scar tissue, and strengthen your confidence. You will learn how can you explore and discard damaging old ideas about creativity/eco-creativity/pain/healing. You will experience an intensive, guided encounter with your own eco creative self hood—your private villains, champions, wishes, fears, dreams, hopes, and triumphs.
The experience will make you excited, depressed, angry, afraid, joyous, hopeful, and, ultimately, more free.
Why should we all use our creative power … ? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.
Brenda Ueland