Perceived nature disconnection lies at the heart of the world’s socio-ecological crisis. Finding ways to reconnect with nature is fundamental towards reducing the adverse psychological–social–ecolo...

Perceived benefits of nature-based experiences as mediators of connectedness with nature: the case of Mystic Mountain:

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Exploring the programme-related experiences of graduates of a pilot preventative intervention for adolescent girls at risk to gang activity in a peri-urban community

Introduction

Over the past 5 years, the Canadian Ecopsychology Network has hosted 6500+ people in close to one hundred different online events. During this time, there has been a noticeable shift in the content...

Community Ecopsychology: Widening Connections to Catalyze Change

Over the past 5 years, the Canadian Ecopsychology Network has hosted 6500+ people in close to one hundred different online events. During this time, there has been a noticeable shift in the content and themes of the presentations. One trend includes a broadening of the application, focus, and purpose of ecopsychology to be more than an individual personal project. The purpose of this article is to present a collage of community concepts exploring the emergence of the new field of community ecopsychology. 

In this chapter we examine how an ecopsychology approach in wilderness settings can be intentionally applied to achieve goals and outcomes consonant with emancipatory community psychology values and objectives. We make use of a community project case study to illustrate the application of wilderness based intervention activities within a community based participatory action research (CBPAR) framework to foster community building initiatives. We describe how the Usiko Community Project used a CBPAR approach in a low-income peri-urban community to develop a wilderness intervention with youth participants as part of broader community building initiatives. The chapter draws from the fields of community psychology, adventure programming and ecopsychology, and the application of CBPAR as methodology, discusses the interplay between ecopsychology and community psychology values in the above contexts, and presents a critical engagement of the liberation capacities of this approach. Critical lessons in applying these approaches for community building derived from the authors’ experiences in the project are highlighted.

Harnessing the Power of Ecopsychology in Community Work

Adventure programming provides an exemplar for interventions through which adolescents may experience holistic development, interdependence, competence, and learn to model pro-social values. This s...

Conrad Stanisław Zygmont

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Harnessing the Power of Ecopsychology in Community Work

A phenomenographic study of factors leading to variation in the experience of a school-based wilderness experiential programme: