Ecoresilience and the Outdoor Life TaskThis workshop is meant for any
therapists, counselors, social workers, teachers or others interested
in taking others OUTDOORS FOR WELLBEING. We will cover the ethical
considerations when taking clients OUTDOORS AND NOTE THE RESEARCH
BEHIND THE BENEFITS OF BEING OUTDOORS. We will connect Adler’s
principles around the urge to grow and creative force with relation to
nature. Ecogrief as a normal response to ecological destruction will
be evaluated. A simple OUTDOOR HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT SENT A WEEK IN
ADVANCE AND USED DURING OUR DISCUSSION ON WELLNESS
ACTIVITIES.Outcomes: Participants will be able to:
* Apply Adler’s five life tasks to ecoresilience and ecowellness
* Characterize at least two aspects of ecogrief
* Characterize topophilia and affirm their own principal place for
wellness
* State at least three risk-management issues related to outdoor
wellness activities
Michelle Doerr is a wildlife biologist with a Master’s in Wildlife
Management from the University of Missouri. She worked for Minnesota
Department of Natural Resources in several capacities dealing with
human-wildlife interactions. She started Anavah Consulting LLC, a
private consulting business to help connect people to self, other and
Earth. Her primary clients are in the outdoor industry but works with
anyone interested in better human-human, human-wildlife, and
human-landscape connections. She is a graduate of and a peer coach for
the National Conservation Leadership Institute, an elite program for
conservation leaders. She obtained a certificate in Advanced Adlerian
Psychology from Phoenix Process Consultants. She came to study Adler
after she saw how his principles helped a child’s eating disorder
when a specialty treatment center couldn’t. Adlerian principles and
ecological principles combined are the heart of her purpose; to help
self and others value all life on earth.
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