Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health and Wild Vitality. A National Confluence

11/09/2020

The journal Ecopsychology just published a special issue guest edited by Tom Fleischner and Laura Sewall. This issue on “Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality” grew out of our November 2019 confluence.

We invite you to check out the journal articles free for one month: https://www.liebertpub.com/toc/eco/12/3

We are excited to let you know that the special issue of the academic journal, Ecopsychology, was just released on “Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality.” The issue, guest edited by Tom Fleischner and Laura Sewall, grew out of our national confluence on this topic last fall.

All articles are available free for one month here: https://www.liebertpub.com/toc/eco/12/3

04/06/2020

Through its Real Ground initiative, the Natural History Institute hopes to mobilize inspiration and insight, as we all grapple with fundamental questions of new relationships with the world and each other.

Have you joined in their Real Ground conversation yet?
https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/real-ground/

If not, we invite you to check out (and comment on) the insightful journal entries already published: https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/real-ground-articles/

Also, we strongly encourage YOUR contributions to this community conversation: https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/real-ground-submissions/

30/04/2020

The Natural History Institute announces "Real Ground" - an opportunity to share stories, insights, observations, and creativity: https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/real-ground/

Greetings, Friends of NHI,

The Natural History Institute was founded with a firm belief in the importance of our inherent human capacity for attentiveness to the world we live in – and in its power to change ourselves, and our world. We’re very excited to announce the launch of our new Real Ground Initiative: https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/real-ground/

As I described in an earlier letter, this is an offering of hope, community, and connection in these trying times—an opportunity for our extended community to share stories, insights, observations, and creativity.

This project provides a mechanism for us to feel closer to one another, and to our world. Our first four contributions are from Ecuador, Australia, Washington, DC, and right up the road in Chino Valley, Arizona. We are a global community.

Consider submitting something yourself: https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/real-ground-submissions/
You can also subscribe to our Real Ground Journal (on the Real Ground pages on our website) and you’ll be notified of new contributions.

I hope you’ll become part of this project, share it with your networks, and be energized by it.

Tom Fleischner, Executive Director


(Image by 3321704 from Pixabay)

10/04/2020

Mar 28, 2020 | General In the News Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality Peter Kahn writes: This small gathering of about 120 of us was focused on Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality. The organizer, Dr. Tom Fleischner, Executive Director of the Natural History Insti...

01/04/2020

As birds herald the onset of spring, Gavin Van Horn seeks reprieve from the thinking mind and its tireless encounters with dread and worry. He wonders what to keep close amid these anxious times.

10/02/2020

Thanks to Becky Ruffner for envisioning and organizing a monthly get-together here at NHI for confluence attendees from the Prescott area. Today's inaugural gathering was a huge success!

14/01/2020

We're excited to share videos and photos from the confluence: https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/reciprocal-healing/

10/12/2019

Videos from the confluence are coming soon!

23/11/2019

Till next time! ❤️

23/11/2019

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend this year’s Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality -- a national confluence of insight from the realms of natural history, medicine, and psychology, and to all our supporters along the way.

Four days and three nights filled to the brim with inspiration, hope, connection, and encouragement. We gathered beneath the azure sky, in the presence of the red rock of Sedona, Arizona, on the western margin of the Mogollon Highlands, one of the most biologically diverse ecoregions in North America—at the juncture of a continental-scale biogeographic crossroads.

This region has been a mixing zone of cultures for thousands of years. A perfect place to have brought ideas together with intention and to clarify a vision and practices for reciprocal healing.

The meld of powerhouse plenary speakers, innovative and enriching workshops, small breakout sessions, time to mingle with one another during meals, breaks throughout to intimately explore the landscape, fire circle with impromptu musical accompaniment, it was an absolute joy to deepen our understanding of reciprocal healing alongside all of you!

We hope you all are transitioning back with ease, and look forward to future Confluences alongside the many thought leaders, innovators, activists, scholars and open hearts that joined us for our first National Confluence! Stay tuned!