THE 4 BEHAVIORS
INTENTIONALLY LIVE YOUR HUMAN NATURE
Act
Full Ecology assumes action. By waking each day and moving through the world, we are acting as part of it. So are trees, and grizzly bears, mountains and goldfish. Many of us are acutely aware of the immediate need for action – not just any action, but what the Buddhist traditions call right action.
While inspiring, the pressure to get it right can be overwhelming. How do we humans actively contribute to the wellbeing of ourselves and all our relations – to the natural world?
True to the bedrock wisdom of saints, sages and scientists of all times and traditions, the primary thing Full Ecology can do is help us place all our attention and heart, thought in devotion to who we really are. Our True Nature. And, as each of you knows, this is not an act that can be held in any formula. Instead it’s a lifelong way of being – dynamic, responsive, ever deepening.
Sustaining that process is a matter of attention. Even small acts along the way can help. We have compiled eight modest practices to try out right now.
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Look to the Tops of Trees – a Solstice Offering
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COVID in the House
Well. We’ve got it. We who, since mid-March, have essentially cloistered – masked, sanitized, distanced. We even disinfect our keys and doorknobs. How in the world did this virus find us? It did. Our symptoms are quite light. We’ll make it fine. But, like you, we have...
Call & Response
In a functioning ecology, the dialogue between wound and medicine is ongoing; there is a call and response always happening. Francis Weller Do chickens or the eggs come first? They do. Am I living or dying? You are. So, it goes and goes. Call and response. The...
Wildfire – What Leadership’s True Nature Looks Like
This is our friend Jon Trapp. He has spent a career moving through military service and then into work with wolves through the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Today, much of his life work is focused on wildland firefighting. Jon’s been all over the...
BLM/PDX – Both/And
Keep your eyes on the prize. Alice Wine, 1956 Human Social Ecology – The ways we’re in relation with each other. The ecologies of intimacy – of family, friendship, neighborhood, community. Both/And – Holding as worthy, two or more perspectives that appear to be at...
What Would Nature Do? Our guest blog with Children & Nature Network
Fifteen years ago, Richard Louv, a lifelong educator, introduced the term “Nature-Deficit Disorder” with the publication of his best-selling book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Soon after, Louv and his...
Whiteness in Nature
We’re in baffling times. Most of us care deeply – really deeply – about justice for all. We’re profoundly compelled by the urgency to stop the systematic oppression of Black lives. Plenty of information floods social and public media advising white people how to be...
Tools for Climate Justice are Tools for Social Justice
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. -Dr. Maya Angelou Here is what I know: hatred is heavier than love. -Sarah Bellamy Yesterday evening, we met with a group of people in a webinar about what the natural world has to show...
You’re in Information Burn-Out – Read this, Then Go Outside.
Culture is not what your hands touch, it’s what moves your hands. Tyson Yunkaporta We’re in a time of radical uncertainty. Probably, you don’t like it much. And, by now, you may be sick & tired of how reflexively you turn to your screens and click. For...
If you can only do one thing – the Full Ecology of this day.
An Atlantic Monthly article published this week bears the title: Quarantine Fatigue is Real. Got that right. Here in the middle of this enormous pivot known as COVID-19 we may be a bit less exhausted than we were in our hyper-busy lives before lockdown. On the other...
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Although our Keynotes & Workshops are carefully tailored for the needs of each specific organization, their heart is always geared towards combating the damage done by our separation from nature. Their end goal is always tangible, sustainable change, whether personally, relationally, or organizationally. The EIGHT INSTRUCTIONS—the core principles of Full Ecology—serve as the connective thread interlacing all our workshops, presentations and keynotes. Below are several examples of past keynotes the illustrate the dynamic range of topics and struggles our work addresses.
