Emma

Think about rituals each season to celebrate the arrival of spring or the harvest, think about rituals of gratitude and abundance each day to remember where our food came from or who was involved in cultivating the earth.

Ecological belonging is living in an ongoing interconnected relationship with ourselves, each other and our broader natural world... See more

Ecological Belonging is an emerging idea centered on developing a new narrative around how we connect ourselves to the world.

We start with a simple question: “ How do we live? ”

We are inviting people to remember , renew and reweave the stories, rituals and practices that root us in a deep interconnectedness between ourselves, our communities, our ... See more

Escaping our built environment and spending time in green spaces is a simple and effective way to enhance not only our experiential connections (i.e. physical interactions) with nature but our cognitive connections too. These are the mental processes involved in understanding, appreciating, and interacting with the natural world which can shape our... See more

As we began to describe what a system is, Eilidh quickly compared it to the way her school works. Using that analogy, the abstract idea of systems maps became much more concrete. We discussed the people who influence her “system”—parents, teachers, principals, and other students. She talked about the issues within the system that she’d like to addr... See more

Key Idea: Systems are usually contained within systems.