Join Dr Charlie Brennan, Bridget O'Brien, Garden Juju Collective, Gateway Farm & guest speakers for our inaugural Ecopsychology Convergence! We are often asked, "Is there actually such a thing as 'Ecopsychology'?'' And the only possible answer is, "How could there not be!" Our ecopsychological feelings, identities, relationships with forests, rivers, seas, gardens, farms, towns, all beings and even highways – everything – are fundamental. And yet, in this human-centered world this is often overlooked or denied.

We will be hearing from speakers & panelists, participating in workshops, world cafe style conversations & emergent discussions. Ecopsychology is bound with sense of place, place literature, ecology, Indigenous & Cultural studies, from literature & beautiful ideas to how we practically live our everyday lives.

Please join us for this most fundamental and exciting event. Expect be challenged, reassured, stimulated, re-enchanted and more.

We also suggest joining us for the whole weekend - plan to attend Saturday's Ecopsychology: Place & Self workshop as well as Sunday's Convergence.

Day One - Saturday, September 21, 2024, 9am-5pm

Supporting, challenging and empowering you, this workshop provides tools and skills (including place making exercises), ideas, language and step-by-step plans for change. All of this is located within a body of literature and supported by an essential design tool. Participants will emerge from this workshop with an understanding of ecopsychology and their vital sense of place in this changing world.

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, even highways – are fundamental needs. These deepest relationships are bound with healthy identity, belonging and having purpose in the world.

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 relationships with the world around us. What are they? 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?

Supporting, challenging and empowering you, this workshop provides tools and skills (including place making exercises), ideas and language and step-by-step plans for change. All of this is located within a body of literature and supported by an essential design tool. Participants will emerge from this workshop with an understanding of ecopsychology and their vital sense of place in this changing world.