Nick Totton:

What is Ecopsychology ?

Learning How to Live on the Earth

Nick Totton

Ecopsychology looks at our relationship with the non-human: a relationship at the base of our attitude to ecological issues and to life in general. It suggests that a natural attitude to the non-human world is one of respect, love and appreciation. However, human society has plainly become alienated from the world of which we are part, to such an extent that we can treat it as something to be ripped apart to yield up short term benefits. Ecopsychology asks why and how this alienation has developed, and what we can do about it so as to bring ourselves back into right relationship with the world.

Strand: Sustainable Consciousness & Psychology

Type of event: Talk & Discussion with experiential elements

Place: Room 1 upstairs in Primary School

Starts: 10:30

Ends: 11:30

Presenter's Personal/Professional Background: Nick Totton

Eco-Psychologist, Body Psychotherapist, Writer

I am a psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor living and working in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. Having originally trained as a Reichian therapist, I now teach and practice my own synthesis, Embodied-Relational Therapy. I have written or edited eleven books so far, including ‘Psychotherapy and Politics’, ‘Reichian Growth Work’, ‘Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction’, and ‘Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems’, and I also edit the peer reviewed journal Psychotherapy and Politics International. I have a twenty three year old daughter; and live with my parter and grow vegetables.

Organisation: Erthworks

Email: nick@erthworks.co.uk

Website: http://www.erthworks.co.uk

Recommended links: www.ecopsychology.org.uk