As we heal ourselves, we heal the world. And vice versa.

Reciprocal Healing Roundtable

When: Oct 1, 2020 05:00 PM (Arizona)
This distinguished panel will explore how nature heals, and how we can participate in helping heal the world.

Panel members include Peter Kahn, Jr., Anna O’Malley, Laura Sewall, and Tom Fleischner. Ecopsychology journal and Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine are co-sponsors of this free online event.

Peter Kahn, Jr., Ph.D. is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Ecopsychology, and co-editor of the books Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species, and The Rediscovery of the Wild. He is a professor at the University of Washington, with appointments in the Department of Psychology and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.

Anna O’Malley, M.D. is an Integrative Family and Community Medicine physician in West Marin, California, and is the founding Director of the Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine in the Commonweal Garden. She guides people in the medicine of reconnecting to nature, holds restorative retreats for physicians, and works toward infusing deep ecological consciousness into the art of healing.

Laura Sewall, Ph.D., M.S.E.L. is the author of Sight and Sensibility: The Ecopsychology of Perception, taught ecopsychology and environmental perception at Prescott and Bates colleges, and was Director of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area in coastal Maine. She has a doctorate in Visual Science and a master’s in environmental law.

Thomas L. Fleischner, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Natural History Institute, Faculty Emeritus at Prescott College, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He is the editor of Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays On Wildness and Wellness and The Way of Natural History, and author of two other books and numerous articles.