The International Journal of Ecopsychology
CAL POLY Humboldt, Arcata, CA
Northern Highland Psychoecology
Dec. 4 & 6 and Dec. 11 & 13
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
With George Conesa
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This course will explore the multifaceted and complex relationships between humans and their natural environments. Across four seasons, our activity patterns and ways of connecting to the natural world change. This is a psychoecological process in step with Aldo Leopolds’ “phenology”: “On our farm we measure the amplitude of spring by two yardsticks: the number of pines planted and the number of geese that stop.” (Aldo Leopold, “The Geese Return,” A Sand County Almanac.) Our Northern Highland winters demand perhaps the most extreme set of psychoecological accommodations: a tolerance for inclement weather and new perceptions and interpretations of “beauty”– our “sense of place.”
Materials will be provided freely online to the course’s students.
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