# Meet Ecological Enquiry

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Ecological enquiry is a branch of enquiry that is **fascinated with questions of ecologicalness as innate state of being&#x20;*****and*****&#x20;intentional way of being**. It is an embodied practise, so it is challenging to transmit the fullness of the practise in words, but the following get very close:

It is **a living, depthful study** of the relationship *between* living things and their environment, and how living things *act in* and *contribute to* relationship.&#x20;

It is **one pathway into knowing and embodying** the *relational nature of being*, so we can have an embodied knowing of ourselves, each other, the more-than-human, the Earth, and the universe, as ecological: as entangled, relational, complex, and awe-inspiring.

It is **a way of being** sitting at the intersection of ecology, story, and practise through which we can seek out - or deepen - our *attunement to* and *relationship with* the relationality, complexity, and interbeing that we human creatures are entangled within.

It is **a re-storying** of *ancient, communal knowings* of ecologicalness.

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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 re-storied over time in different languages and shapes.

Ecological enquiry is recognised as **a re-storying of a relationship with ecologicalness embodied by peoples and cultures throughout time, in different ways, and with different languages and practises**.

Ecological enquiry is only one of many pathways into ecological exploration, birthed of the specific arrangements of language, place, society, and other stories that Anna-Marie has been born into. A **living thread in a long lineage of ecological curiosity and knowings**.
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