Mindful U at Naropa University
Thoughts and Instruction on Mindfulness in Higher Education
We found 3 episodes of Mindful U at Naropa University with the tag “ecopsychology”.
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Michael Bauer: "The Discovery of Deep Community Resilience"
October 15th, 2018 | 39 mins 56 secs
ecopsychology, ecosystem, sustainability
If we can protect top-tier predators then we can protect large wilderness areas. The United States wilderness system, the national park system, and the national forest system–which are unparalleled globally–could help us build the room in our hearts for wilderness areas. And that's what really called to me. As I went into a career at Boulder County Parks and Open Space, I really started to notice and get more concerned about climate change. I realized that we can protect wilderness from mining and logging and overuse and create the cultural space in our hearts for that wilderness, but we can't protect it from climate change directly. It has to be a change in the hearts of people. So, that got me really paranoid.
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Travis Cox: Sustainability is Ecopsychology is Sustainability
December 5th, 2017 | 28 mins 48 secs
ecopsychology, environmentalism, green living, sustainability
Ecopsychology is a field whose goal is to bridge our cultures' long standing historical gulf between the psychological and the ecological to see the needs of the planet and the person as a continuum. Transpersonal ecopsychology is the evolving exploration expression and embodied practice of the inter-dependence of humans in the more than human world, which tends towards to the health balance and optimal well being of all. A change in our internal landscapes might change our relationships with the land in a way that includes extending social ethics to the land and an examination of our loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Jeanine Canty: Environmental Justice
October 17th, 2017 | 30 mins 21 secs
colonization, ecopsychology, environment, oppression
‘Oppressions of People and Oppressions of the Earth Go Hand and Hand’. Naropa Professor Jeanine Canty explains the link between social and ecological injustice and how throughout human history, the oppression of people of color has been inseparable from the oppression of the natural world.