Creating and Teaching a Course in Ecotherapy: We Went to the Woods

The authors describe the creation and implementation of a graduate-level counseling course in ecotherapy. Specifically, the rationale for the course, the selection of students, and course content and activities are outlined. In the spring of 2001, the authors developed and offered a team-taught spec...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of humanistic education and development 2004-09, Vol.43 (2), p.211
Hauptverfasser: Davis, Keith M, Atkins, Sally S
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The authors describe the creation and implementation of a graduate-level counseling course in ecotherapy. Specifically, the rationale for the course, the selection of students, and course content and activities are outlined. In the spring of 2001, the authors developed and offered a team-taught special topics course in ecotherapy in the university's graduate counseling program. For this course, ecotherapy was based on an organic rather than a mechanistic theory, with the living system of the earth as the focus. This article presents the story of the authors' journey, as a community of learners, into concepts of ecotherapy, the lessons of other cultural worldviews, and most basically, the lessons of the natural world.
ISSN:0735-6846