Anatomy of an Ecopsy Workshop

Granted: what happened at my workplace is not entirely ecopsy, but it is one aspect of it...

On Wednesday, I gave a two-hour Joanna Macy-like workshop as part of our staff development week. This is what it consisted of:

• one-to-one "open sentences" about gratitude in our lives...
• a discussion of economic growth and our suicide economy...
• more one-to-one "open sentences" but this time on what we find difficult, what we appreciate and what we're doing in our lives in this time of global crisis...
• a dramatization of the impact of a rainforest on the world climate...
• ...and what happens when it's dying and decomposing due to destruction...
• a discussion about what we can do in our office to make it more sustainable...

The practical 'deliverables' resulting from this workshop are a bi-weekly 'green' newsletter to help our co-workers become more sustainable, a switch to 100% recycled paper, and the forming of a Study Action Group: to teach ourselves about particular issues, such as the destruction of the rainforest.

Extremely gratifying. If anyone wants more details or materials relating to workshops like these, let me know and I'll be happy to share so you can spread the love. :)