Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality

Peter Kahn writes: This small gathering of about 120 of us was focused on Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality. The organizer, Dr. Tom Fleischner, Executive Director of the Natural History Institute, says it this way: “The health of humans and nature are inextricably linked. As we heal ourselves, we heal the earth – and vice versa. The goal is to illuminate the healing ground that lies at the confluence of natural history, medicine, and psychology.” Usha and I came away not only recharged by the amazing people, conversation, and landscape, but with a clearer understanding that a Nature and Health movement needs to deeply embed within it this idea of reciprocity. Perhaps this focus could structure some of our group’s conversation this year?