A 2-day workshop
Katoomba, March 2006
When? Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th March 9.30am-4pm
Where? To be held at the World Heritage Institute, Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW
What? A Deep Ecology workshop with Ruth Rosenhek: international environmental and social justice activist, educator, co-director of the Rainforest Information Centre, Lismore.
How much? Cost for the 2 day workshop: $125 waged $100 part or low waged, $75 unwaged. This includes morning/afternoon teas & lunch, with a portion of funds donated to conservation projects in India. Work exchange available upon inquiry.
FOR INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS: (02) 4782 6703
Or email jadeyjellybean@hotmail.com
About the facilitator
Ruth Rosenhek is an international environmental and social justice activist, educator and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Lismore. Ruth organizes and campaigns on behalf of forest protection, land rights and global justice. Ruth facilitates experiential deep ecology workshops, teaches on spiritual engagement and is an active member of the Dharma Gaia Trust. See http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/rosenhek.htm
The Deep Ecology Workshop
The spiritual blight of separation -- from each other and the Earth -- plagues modern humanity and is the underlying root of the ecological crisis or our times; the culturally-conditioned, competitive, isolated self is the engine of the 6th extinction spasm currently unfolding around us. Arne Naess, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Oslo University who coined the term "deep ecology", said that "ecological ideas are not enough"; we need "ecological identity, ecological self". Naess says that this is to be brought about through community therapies, "healing our relations to a widest community, that of all living beings". In this workshop, we participate in a series of rituals, creative exercises, despairwork and meditations to we acknowledge our interconnectedness with air, water and soil as we invite the spontaneous healing of psyche and dissolve the illusion of our disconnection from the living Earth.
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