ECOPSYCHOLOGY

The Expressive Arts provides an ideal vehicle for exploring and refining our relations with our human diversity and with the earth communities and ecosystems. Sky Mountain places the Expressive Arts within an ecological framework, allowing for a personal exploration of one’s relations to nature and an engaged global mindset.

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How do we participate within the web of life and become a full member within the council of all beings? Our present ecological and global crisis calls us to re-center ourselves within an earth-cherishing consciousness. We learn again to think like nature, with her intricate ability to self-organize and to touch into the deep spontaneities and harmonies that have evolved the eye of a bee, the complexity of the human heart, and the ecological diversity of our coral reefs.

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We hope to forge a psychology inclusive of our relationship with each other, our society and cultures, and all kingdoms of life – mineral, plant, animal, and human. Such a psychological attitude breaks out of our human-centered blindness and moves across species to embrace a trans-species intelligence, cultural diversity, and effective civil action.

We regain our ancient perennial ways of knowing within a truly modern and global context. In this way, we use the Expressive Arts to awaken our intuition and imaginal capacities guided by a developed intelligence.

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