LEARNING AND PRACTISING

We can practise ecological enquiry individually, with a facilitating guide, or within a circle.

This site holds enough guidance to start practising ecological enquiry through self-learning. However, if you would like guidance, you can be guided into the practise by joining one of Anna-Marie’s ecological enquiry circles or arranging private sessions with her.

SELF-LEARNING AND PRACTISING

If you do self-learn, find someone you respect and trust to check-in on the conclusions you're arriving at: one of the core aspects of ecological enquiry is critical thinking, and it's therefore important that our conclusions are checked and, if helpful, challenged.

LEARNING AND PRACTISING TOGETHER

In circles and private sessions, Anna-Marie acts as facilitating guide, bringing her own noticings, questions, and investigations in ecologicalness into the circles and private sessions as well as holding space and offering guidance, to deepen the enquiry and to disrupt teaching-pupil dynamics.

Practising together, we consider:

1. How do we experience ecologicalness? Here, we hold curiosity about how we individually and collectively experience being ecological.

2. What are the stories we are shaped by and shaping? Here, we utilise critical thinking and the imaginal to investigate the roots, truth (lower case truth), and impacts of personal and collective stories, so giving space for new stories and truths to arise.

3. What ways of being best align with ecologicalness? Here, we explore the blocks, challenges, hopes, and possibilities that arise when wanting to be more individually and collectively ecologically curious, attuned, response-able, and generous.

The act of being in circle together, whether actually sitting in a circle (in person) or in intention (i.e. online), embodies the perspective that we are all of equal worth, with no one person's worth being greater than another's.

It also reminds us that while we are individual and unique, we exist within many wholes, from our shared humanity to our membership of different communities, as well as being kin within a multispecies, multigenerational, multicultural world.