Tag: co-liberation

Wild Nature Heart October Update

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

Dear Wild Nature Hearts, A few days ago, I woke up feeling overwhelmed. I sensed my imagination waning. Perhaps you can relate to that sensation of constriction that can arise when you’ve been digesting too much about climate catastrophes, shameless capitalist exploitation and commodification,… Continue Reading “Wild Nature Heart October Update”

Category: Newsletter, UncategorizedTags: autumn, co-liberation, ecotherapy, Imagination, liberation, mycelium, nature, poetry, Slow, slug, the great turning

10 spring Poppies for Approaching Ecotherapy

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Ryan Van Lenning

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When invited to teach an upcoming Ecotherapy course, I realized that something beyond more knowledge or even skills, as commonly understood, is required. Something in me balked at overly-academicizing it, and felt that all-too-familiar intellect taking over, alienating my body, heart, and soul. So these are some spring wild poppies and prickly cacti that emerged through the soil:

Category: Class, Ecotherapy, UncategorizedTags: co-liberation, deep belonging, ecospirituality, ecotherapy, natural cycles, presence, purpose, soul, soul work

We Are Wild Nature Heart

Posted on November 5, 2020 by Ryan Van Lenning

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Though we try, we cannot flee our entanglements. The symphonies of howling disguise themselves as itching until we listen & accept them, offering refuge in our body-hearts. There’s no going back. We’ve relinquished mastery in favor of aspirational imaginaries beyond empire.

Category: UncategorizedTags: animism, co-liberation, ecopsychology, interconnected, interdependence, kin, lost borders, we