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Come to Your Senses! - Foundations for Ecological Literacy

In this one of a kind four-hour workshop, you will be exposed to a comprehensive set of experiential methods for understanding, communicating, and participating in the ecological story of our time. The observational awareness to experience the world ecologically opens the emotional connection, in addition to intellectual, that motivates right action. The story of our families, our homes, our communities, and the greater human story has become an ecological one and learning to perceive ecologically has never been more important.

You will be exposed to six interrelated approaches to open your ecological awareness:

1) Observational, Awareness, and Perceptual Shifts: Everything we know must first be perceived. Shifts in the way we observe can bring ecological relationships into our everyday awareness.

2) The Living Earth: Thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting We perceive in many ways that the vast living systems of Earth are ever adapting to keep the Earth itself suitable for life, in a way similar to us maintaining our own homes.

3) Naturalist Knowledge and Tracking: The way we know and become the place we call home. The ability to read the patterns of the land is ancient and in our blood.

4) Bird Language and other messengers: Wherever you are in the world, the birds and other sensitive creatures form our extended awareness, feeding back information about our surroundings and ourselves.

5) Story and Myth: Our modern scientific culture has articulated a story of creation that is rarely told in its full, ecological form. The story of the universe shares much with the creation stories of all times and cultures. It asks us, what does it mean to be the universe looking back at itself?

6) Designer's Mind: With ecological awareness comes ecological actions. Design principles and practices give the competence to turn awareness into action.

The class will be taught by Robert Mellinger and you can find his bio here: http://www.robertmellinger.com/?page_id=312

Please be ready to be comfortable in any weather and bring snacks. Please contact us if you have any questions. If you are interested in more in depth exposure, look up our 1-day and 2-day intensives and our 6-workshop series on BrownPaperTickets or at our Facebook page.