deep ecology
practices for awakening and resilience in a changing world
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2026 AT 4:00 PM AEST (6:00 PM NZST) — A free event. Join the Southern Turning Spring Equinox zoom call to meet with friends and folk from the wider networks of deep ecology and …
John Revington was a volunteer with the Rainforest Information Centre (RIC) in Lismore, New South Wales, and editor of its quarterly journal, the World Rainforest Report. He lived from 1986 onward at …
An Indigenous person is a member of a community retaining memories of life lived sustainably on a land-base, as part of that land-base.
Contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
I realized I was prey. I was a meal for a crocodile in the most ancient sense.
Indigenous Knowledge is any application of those memories as living knowledge to improve present and future circumstances.
Rationalism is the key to the connected oppressions of women and nature in the West.
The assistance people need is not in learning about Aboriginal Knowledge but in remembering their own.
The project is changing the master story, the background narrative of our culture.
The standpoint of mastery sees the other as radically separate and inferior, the background to the self as foreground.
Until we can acknowledge our dependency on nature, we cannot develop a truly sustainable culture.
We need to recognize ourselves as ecological beings who are thoroughly enmeshed in a larger world of nature.
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 June 2026, 4pm AEST to 4pm. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed, Tema Milstein, Erika Aligno and Jim Lavranos at Narara Ecovillage, following the full spiral of the …
Friday 13 – Sunday 15 February 2026, 4pm AEDT to 4pm. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed, Jim Lavranos and friends, presented by the Rainforest Information Centre — the Council of All …
Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal Australian scholar and member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He founded the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University and wrote Sand Talk: …
Val Plumwood was an Australian ecofeminist philosopher whose rigorous critique of dualism revealed how Western philosophy’s hierarchical separation of reason from nature, mind from body, and …
Friday 1 – Sunday 3 August 2025, 4pm AEST to 4pm. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed, Kiran Kashyap, Erika Aligno and Sol Blackwood at Narara Ecovillage, held as a tribute gathering …
Saturday 28 June, 9am – Sunday 29 June, 4pm 2025. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed, Tema Milstein and Erika Aligno, held alongside that year’s COCE (Communication and Our …
Friday 11 – Sunday 13 April 2025, 4pm to 4pm. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed, Erika Aligno, Sally Novak and Nirmala Rose at Narara Ecovillage, home of John Seed’s Deep Ecology …
Tuesday 3 December 2024, online. An experiential online conversation exploring deep ecology and Buddhist philosophy, co-facilitated by Inna Alex and Ven. Tenzin (Dr. Alex Anderson) — drawing on …
Friday 15 – Sunday 17 November 2024, 4pm to 4pm. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed, Tema Milstein, Jane Lynch and Olivia Kirk at Narara Ecovillage — the Council of All Beings and …
Friday 7 – Sunday 9 June 2024, 4pm to 4pm. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed at Arcoora Arts and Ecology Training Ground near Kyogle, NSW — the Council of All Beings, guided reflection …
Friday 22 – Sunday 24 March 2024, 4pm to 4pm. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed, Tema Milstein, Erika Aligno and Seth Hinkley at Narara Ecovillage, home of John Seed’s Deep …
Thursday 25 – Sunday 28 January 2024. A four-day gathering hosted (not solo-facilitated) by John Seed, deliberately structured as a festival rather than a workshop: each process had a different …
[ Pat has been has been facilitating Deep Ecology and the Work that Reconnects workshops, and giving talks, trainings and webinars in a number of countries over some 40 years. She’s a plantswoman, …
Patrick Anderson is a forest activist and student of Buddhism. Since the 1980’s he has participated in and occasionally led Deep Ecology workshops and processes in Australia and Europe. Patrick …
John Seed is an Australian environmental activist who co-created the Council of All Beings practice and founded the Rainforest Information Centre. His work connects direct action rainforest …
Pat Fleming is a deep ecology facilitator who co-authored Thinking Like a Mountain (1988) with John Seed, Joanna Macy, and Arne Naess. She has conducted experiential deep ecology workshops for over …
MenAware New England National Park, NSW Wednesday 31 May – Sunday 4 June 2023 “I recall times in this life when I’ve quietly grieved an absence of deep connectedness with men. At MenAware gatherings …
Friday 31 March – Sunday 2 April 2023, 4pm both days. An in-person Deep Ecology workshop co-facilitated by John Seed, Genna Ward, and Patrick Anderson — featuring the Council of All Beings and …
Government Huts, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania Sunday 5 – Thursday 9 February 2023 _With Ronny Hickel _ On this nature retreat we will be accommodated in the historic Government Huts, situated …
Friday 25 – Sunday 27 November 2022, 4pm to 4pm. An in-person, immersive Deep Ecology workshop with John Seed, exploring the philosophy and practices he and Joanna Macy developed together — including …
Fri 21st Oct 2022 – Sun 23rd Oct 2022 AEDT The Rainforest Information Centre presents an in-person, immersive DEEP ECOLOGY workshop with John Seed Tickets are sliding scale from $150-$450 . 25% of the …
**Yuraygir National Park, Northern NSW Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 October** 2022 _With Ken Golding & Brother Tenzin _(Alex Anderson) This MenAware Nature Retreat with www.yatra.org.au will take us to a …
Trephina Gorge – East MacDonnell Ranges NP, Northern Territory Saturday 23 – Thursday 28 July with Ronny Hickel This nature retreat will take us to the East MacDonnell Ranges of Central Australia, …
https://youtu.be/_e_liXJf5aQ A tale of endangered species featuring David Attenborough, David Suzuki, David Bellamy, Jack Thompson, Olivia Newton John, Koala, Owl, Quoll & Glider. For the young at …
Eshana is a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology, and has been facilitating deep ecology workshops and the Council of All Beings since the mid-1990’s. She even wrote her PhD about it! As a director …
John Seed is founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions which have resulted in the protection of the Australian …
**Bald Rock National Park, Northern NSW Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 May** with Ken Golding & Ronny Hickel The annual MenAware Nature Retreat will take us to the awesome boulders of Bald Rock …
Produced & Directed by Jeni Kendall Cameraman – Paul Tait ©1980 Gaia Films This 1980 documentary tells the story of the first eco-blockade in the world – the Terania Creek forest protest in …