Category: People

  • Bio: Pat Fleming

    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, musician, writer and poet, and her writing includes co-authoring ‘Thinking like A Mountain – towards a Council of All Beings’ with John Seed,…

  • What is Deep Ecology?

    Through deep experience, deep questioning and deep commitment emerges deep ecology By Stephan Harding * IN THE 1960s, HAVING read Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, Arne Naess was moved to apply his formidable philosophical skills to understanding the ecological crisis and its resolution. Since becoming the youngest-ever professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo…

  • Profile: Joanna Macy

    Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. The author of more than twelve books, she is the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects.

  • Profile: Pat Fleming

    Pat Fleming grew up in England within a northern Irish family, and has dual nationality with Australia after working here in the eighties. She’s recently moved with her partner to live in northern Lutruwita (Tasmania) and loves being part of this country and finding community.  Over some 40 years she has been facilitating Deep Ecology…

  • Book: “Zen and The Art of Saving The Planet” – Thich Nhat Hanh

    A recent posthumous release from the not-for profit publisher Parralax Press: “Zen and The Art of Saving The Planet“. This book is a gem, filled with Thich Nhat Hanh’s beautiful meditations, inspiring stories and experiences from his own life of activism and engagement. It is compiled from talks and teachings given by Thich Nhat Hanh…

  • Event: 25th-27th Nov 2022- Deep Ecology Workshop – With John Seed: Yarra Junction

    Fri 25th Nov 2022, – Sun 27th Nov 2022, AEDT The Rainforest Information Centre presents an in-person, immersive DEEP ECOLOGY workshop with John Seed The Rainforest Information Centre presents DEEP ECOLOGY with John Seed Tickets are sliding scale from $150-$450 25% of the proceeds will be donated to protect Ecuador’s rainforests. Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/deep-ecology-with-john-seed-melbourne Location: Camp Eureka,…

  • Event: 21st-23rd Oct 2023- Deep Ecology Workshop – With John Seed: Nimbin

    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 proceeds will be donated to protect Ecuador’s rainforests. Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/deep-ecology-with-john-seed-nimbin Location Black Sheep Farm Guesthouse, 449A Gungas Rd, Nimbin NSW 2480, Australia…

  • Event: 7th-9th Oct 2022: Deep Ecology Workshop – With John Seed: Lower Mangrove

    Fri 7th Oct – Sun 9th Oct 2022 The Rainforest Information Centre presents an in-person, immersive DEEP ECOLOGY workshop with John Seed Tickets are sliding scale from $150-$450 If the workshop is cancelled, a full refund will be offered 25% of the proceeds will be donated to protect Ecuador’s rainforests. Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/spring-deep-ecology-with-john-seed-at-lower-mangrove-central-coast Location Lower Mangrove, NSW…

  • The Trumpeter ISSN: 0832-6193 Volume 22, Number 2 (2006) The Ecological Self John Seed In this article John explores some of the key issues in deep Ecology, his own experience as an activist and facilitator of the work. In the 1970s, when Jerry Brown was Governor of California, the eco-poet Gary Snyder was working in…

  • The following recording is an introduction to the embodied practice of sitting meditation, preliminary to a practice of Mindfulness of Breathing. These instructions draw on the Buddhist and Yoga traditions of meditation with the breath as an object. They are beneficial in the cultivation of a body and mind which is calm, at ease and…