Thomas Doherty spoke at the Oregon Natural Step Network’s fall breakfast series on the topic of maintaining motivation and inspiration. His talk “Master of Two Worlds” uses the Hero’s Journey metaphor to describe how innovators and change agents can maintain their vision and avoid burnout amid the challenges of daily life and work.
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“Renewable Energy for Sustainability Practitioners” 
Shierry Weber Nicholsen
In this wide-ranging interview, psychoanalyst and author Shierry Weber Nicholsen discussed ways she addresses environmental issues with clients in her psychotherapy practice, the background of her book The Love of Nature and the End of the World (2002), and her thoughts about the benefits of a psychoanalytic perspective on individual and group processes regarding environmental issues.
Nicholsen also spoke about her intellectual and professional development and current artistic pursuits as a stone carver and practitioner of the cello.
She spoke to Ecopsychology editor Thomas Joseph Doherty from her office in Seattle, Washington.
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September 2009 • Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Ecopsychology: 110-117
Ecotherapy book cover
This is a four-part review of the new book Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature in Mind edited by Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist and published by Sierra Club Books. Bringing together four different perspectives offers an opportunity for a dimensional review that is representative of the many practices this book is intended to inform. Lisa Lynch and Thomas Doherty, as teachers of ecopsychology, review the text at both the undergraduate and graduate psychology level. They look at the book as an important representation of the ever-evolving field of ecopsychology and suggest ways the text could be stronger, and emphasize the ways in which it makes a necessary contribution to their teaching. Martin Jordan reviews the book from across the Atlantic in England and suggests that the book could have attended to a more inclusive perspective. As a scholar and practitioner he is able to emphasize certain essays and how they make a contribution to the work he is doing. Sandra Newes reviews Ecotherapy from the point of view as a professionally trained Clinical Psychologist who is grateful to have found these many techniques that serve to support in incorporating a relationship and connection to nature into her psychotherapeutic practice. We chose this format in order to provide a round table of voices that each contribute a unique and important perspective. It is intended to give the reader a beginning at which to evaluate the text on their own, glean what is useful, and perhaps contribute in some way to the ever-evolving form of ecopsychology and ecotherapy.
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September 2009 • Book Review: Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature in Mind | Linda Buzzell & Craig Chalquist | by Lisa Lynch. Ecopsychology: 160-164
“Emotional knowing is as important, and sometimes more important, than conceptual knowing, especially if we need to summon psychic energy to meet the ecological crisis that we currently face.” — David Tacey
Ecopsychology Journal
A little over a year ago, I received a query from a person who was fact-checking a story about ecopsychology for a popular US health and lifestyle magazine. She rightly noted that ecopsychology was a highly interdisciplinary field, and hoped I could speak from, in her words, “the psychiatric side” of things and confirm that the specialty emerged when therapists began to notice their patients’ increasing stress about the greenness of their lifestyles and various environmental crises.
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September 2009 • “The Rediscovery of Ecopsychology” in Ecopsychology: 105-109
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