Almut Beringer, Ph.D.

Dept. of Outdoor Education and Nature Tourism
La Trobe University, Bendigo
P.O. Box 199
Bendigo, Victoria 3552, Australia
Phone: +61 3 5444 7487, Fax: +61 3 5444 7848

Research interests: environmental ethics, ecospirituality, sacred cosmology, the healing powers of nature. Current project: how do nature experiences and outdoor pursuits assist recovery from traumatic life events, e.g., spinal cord injury. Other project: how do individuals learn to care for nature?

1. The transformative and healing effects of nature and nature experiences. Current project: the role of outdoor recreation therapy in the psychological adjustment to physical disability after spinal cord injury (qualitative research)
2. Spirituality and nature -- current project: a conceptual analysis of spirituality
3. Moral development/environmental ethics
4. Ecogrief (trauma, grief and loss associated with the natural world, e.g., extinction of species) and therapeutic approaches current project: documenting ecogrief experiences.

List of publications

Beringer, A. (2001). "In search of the sacred: A conceptual analysis of spirituality." Journal of Experiential Education, in press.

Beringer, A. and Martin, P. (2000). "Where is nature? Adventure therapy and the natural world." Scisco Conscientia, in press.

Beringer, A. (2000). "Nature experiences and outdoor pursuits in the psychological adjustment to physical disability following spinal cord injury (SCI)", Rehabilitation Psychology , submitted for review.

Beringer, A. (2000). "Being moved by nature: Healing through nature and implications for an ethics of care for nature." Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium for Society and Resource Management, Bellingham, Washington 17 – 22 June 2000, in press.

Beringer, A. (2000). "Ecospirituality: true, indigenous, western." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 16, in press.

Beringer, A. (1999). "Earth requiem: Letter to a grieving friend." Boulder, CO: Association for Experiential Education Individual Monograph # 300198.

Beringer, A. (1999). "On adventure therapy and Earth healing". Australian Journal of Outdoor Education 4(1), 33-39.

Chenery, M.F. and Beringer, A. (1998). "Reconsidering what feels like failure." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 14, 27-38.

Craig Chalquist, MS, PhD

http://www.tearsofllorona.com/

Former co-founder of the Cornerstone Counseling Center in Simi Valley, CA and graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute.  Research interests:  My dissertation explored the application of depth psychology, California history, and folklore (e.g., La Llorona, the Weeping Woman) to a "Psychoanalysis of Place" tracing the "voice" of colonized and overdeveloped places deep into the psychological symptoms of their inhabitants.

Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D 

John Davis, Ph.D.

Dept. of Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Online MA in Transpersonal Psychology

Naropa University
2130 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, CO 80302 (303) 444-0202; 444-0410 (fax)

Description of Research Interests

Relevant Publications:

"The transpersonal dimensions of ecopsychology: Nature, non-duality, and spiritual practice." The Humanistic Psychologist (1998, Spr/Sum/Autumn), Vol. 26, (Nos. 1-3), pp 69-100.

"An integrated approach to the scientific study of the human spirit." In Driver, B., et al., Eds. (1996). Nature and the Human Spirit: Toward an Expanded Land Management Ethic. Radnor, PA: Venture Publishing. Pages 417-429.

The Diamond Approach: An Introduction to the Teachings of A. H. Almaas. (1999, Boston: Shambhala Pub.)

"We Keep Asking Ourselves, What is Transpersonal Psychology?" Guidance and Counseling (2000, Spring), Vol. 15 (No. 3), pp 3-8.

Lorraine M. Fish, M.A.

Seattle, Washington
(206) 361 0166

Lorraine teaches Ecopsychology at Bastyr University, Environmental Psychology, Social Psychology, and The Psychology of Difference at City University, and Philosophical Perspectives on Environment and Community and Spiritual Ecology at Antioch University Seattle.  She has been practicing as an Ecotherapist for the past 5 years and has been working on a PhD in Ecopsychology with the Union Institute for the past two years.  Her doctoral studies focus on the relationship between nature, culture and addiction.

Four articles in The New Times by Lorraine M. Fish: Ecopsychology (February 2000), Ecotherapy (April, 2000),  Collective Recovery: An Interview with Chellis Glendinning (July 2000), and EcoRecovery (November 2000).

Robert Greenway, Ph.D.

Corona Farm, Port Townsend, Washington
Professor Emeritus, Sonoma State University.

In the 1950's Robert Greenway worked with W.T. Edmondson on the ecology ("limnology") of Lake Washington, in Seattle.

Robert Greenway wrote his first ecopsychology paper in 1962 as a graduate student at Brandeis University,  working as a writer and researcher for Abraham Maslow.   Subsequently he was the founding dean of Franconia College,  based on ecopsychological principles.

For 22 years he taught ecopsychology at Sonoma State University, and developed the first graduate program in the country training providing training in wilderness therapy.   Currently he has been working on a book on ecopsychology,  developing an organic farm in Port Townsend Washington,  involving himself in local politics, and contributing to the anti-war movement in the U.S.

Most of his writings and research results (primarily on "the wilderness effect") are unpublished and circulated privately.    These, however, have seen the light:

"Die Erfahrung der Wildnis -- Schule der Kooperation, Ort der Heilung"  in Kooperation mit der Evolution -- das kreative Zusammenspiel von Mensch und Kosmos, Eugen Diederichs Verlag,  Munchen, 1999

"Notes in Search of an Ecopsychology," unpublished paper presented at the first Esalen Institute Ecopsychology conference, Big Sur, California, 1993

"Psychoecology as a Search for Language."  Unpublished draft, 1994

"The Wilderness Effect and Ecopsycyhology" in ECOPSYCHOLOGY: RESTORING THE EARTH, HEALING THE MIND, ed. Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner,  San Francisco:  Sierra Club, 1995.

The Multiple Approaches to Ecopsychology: One View

Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Box 351525
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
206-616-9395 (Office)

Peter H. Kahn, Jr. is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Washington. He is also Co-Director of The Mina Institute (Covelo, CA), an organization that seeks to promote, from an ethical perspective, the human relationship with nature and technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. His publications have appeared in such journals as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Review, Human Development, Environmental Values, and Journal of Systems Software. His 1999 award-winning book (MIT Press) is titled The Human Relationship with Nature: Development and Culture. His edited volume (MIT Press, 2002) with Stephen Kellert is titled Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations. His research projects are currently being funded by The National Science Foundation.  See http://faculty.washington.edu/pkahn/ for more information.

The Human Relationship with Nature: Development and Culture,
The MIT Press (1999).  (Winner of the Book Award for the 2000 Moral Development and Education Group of the American Educational Research Association)

"Peter Kahn addresses a subject important to humanity correctly, not as an advocate of genetic or cultural hypotheses, but as a scholar pondering the way in which the two forms of evolution are interwoven. His conclusions are informed by his own considerable research, presented in a clear and interesting manner. This is a significant contribution to the understanding of the human condition."
- Edward O. Wilson,
Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology,
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

“This penetrating analysis is the best yet blending of philosophical analysis and empirical research."
- Holmes Rolston, III,
University Distinguished Professor,
Colorado State University

"Peter Kahn has written a sweeping and original account of the relationship between people and their living environments. The studies in Kahn's ambitious book open new doors into an important area of psychological study, and his bold theorizing adds greatly to our knowledge of developmental universals as well as cultural variation in how humans relate to the natural world."
- William Damon, Professor and Director,
Center on Adolescence,
Stanford University

Alexslis Nyuyfoghan Maindze (PGD)

Current Research:   Local Knowledge and Perceptions on Nature Conservation in the Korup National Park in Cameroon

Peter Martin, PhD

 

Head of The Department of Outdoor Education and Nature Tourism

La Trobe University, Bendigo

Victoria, Australia

 

Research interests lie in understanding the human to nature relationship and the way such relationships develop.  As a consequence how might educational practices be structured to foster such development?  In particular I believe human/nature relationships are formed in the affective rather than cognitive domain - they exist as felt relationships based on personal direct experience with the natural world.

 

Relevant publications

 

Beringer, A. & Martin, P. (2003). On Adventure Therapy and The Natural Worlds: Respecting nature's healing. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 3 (1), 29-39.

 

Martin, P. & Thomas, G. (2001) Interpersonal relationships as a metaphor for human-nature relationships. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 5, (1), 39-45.

 

Martin, P. (1999). Daring to Care? - Humans, Nature and Outdoor Education. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 4, (1), 2-4.

 

Martin, P. (1999) Critical Outdoor Education. In Miles, J. & Priest, S. (Ed.) (1999) Adventure Education (2nd Ed.) (pp. 463-471). State College, PA: Venture Publishing.

Sergio Cristancho Marulanda, M.S.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1115 Plant Sciences Lab
1201 South Dorner Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-4737

Research interests:

Cultural and cross-cultural psychology regarding environmental cognitions and
morality. Human-nature interactions among indigenous communities from the
Northwestern Amazon and Central America. Concept of nature. Relationship
between environmental cognitions/morality and health/illness
conceptions.Culturally-defined keystone species.

Michael Payne, MA

Visiting Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Scarborough School of Arts
University of Hull, Scarborough Campus
Filey Road, Scarborough Y011 7PB
UK

I am researching the relationship between climate and theatre, and investigate particularly the effects of weather on the psychology of performance, whether it be writer, performer or ‘character’. Theatre and performance work from much of Northern Europe, Russia and North America evidences a strong link between climatology and certain pathologies of mind or place, called, in my terms, meteopathology.  The outline of this form of critical practice was given in my paper, Meteorology and Modern Drama as part of the ‘Writing the Environment’ conference, University of East London, September 2000.

John Scull, Ph.D.

phone 250-746-6141
fax 250-746-1529
P. O. Box 156
Duncan, B.C. V9L 3X3 CANADA

Scull, J. (2001) Is it Ever Too Late? The Rescue of Tower Hill. Gatherings #5, ICE Journal

Scull, J. (2002) Why would anyone go to jail to save trees?  Gatherings #7, ICE Journal

Also book reviews in most issues of Gatherings.  These are all available here.

Yes, I would like to have my contact info on your website. My most consistent email address is:

P.O. Box 243, Phippsburg, ME 04562.

Publications:

Jed Swift, M.A.

Director, Center for Ecopsychology
Naropa University
2130 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, CO 80302
614-921-1997
 

Naropa University Center For Ecopsychology