Ecological enquiry, introduced

Ecological enquiry is a branch of enquiry that is fascinated with questions of ecologicalness as innate state of being and intentional way of being. It is an embodied practise, so a challenge to word, but these touch it:

A living, depthful study of the relationship between living things and their environment, and how living things act in and contribute to relationship.

A pathway into knowing and embodying the relational nature of being.

A knowing of self, other, more-than-human, Earth, and cosmos as entangled, relational, complex, and mysterious.

A way of being at the intersection of ecology, story, and practise that seeks to deepen our capacity to attune to and be in relationship with interbeing.

A restorying of ancient communal knowings.

The colonial and whiteness story that so many of us human creatures are immersed within values mind intelligence over the intelligence of feet, heart, hands, senses, and mind, and the intelligence of revered individuals over intelligence as ancient, communal knowings restoried over time in different languages and shapes.

I hope that ecological enquiry is recognised as a restorying of a relationship with ecologicalness embodied by peoples and cultures throughout time, in different ways, and with different languages and practises. A living thread in a long lineage of ecological curiosity and knowings.