ECOLOGICAL ENQUIRY

Ecological enquiry is a branch of enquiry that is fascinated with questions of ecologicalness as innate state of being and intentional way of being.

Ecological enquiry is an embodied practise, so it is challenging to transmit the fullness of the practise in words, but the below 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.

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.

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.

I hope that 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 ecologicalness, birthed of the 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.