| Meghan Rudd
Indigenous Perspectives for Sustainability: A Rural South African Case Study
Is the purpose of our times to manifest psyche consciousness to round out our technological achievements? Will this marriage heal our Earth and ourselves? In this presentation a case study from rural South Africa illust
ethos development. For a long time conservation and development work has been steered by a western-scientific perspective that has proved to be unsustainable for local communities, particularly in developing countries
Rural Development Systems, I embarked on a 'systemic intervention' in one of the nations poorest provinces. The intervention recognized the multiple 'lenses' people view the world through and sought attitudes and value
Meghan Rudd is a doctoral student at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Clinical Psychology. Her deep passion for the Earth and all living things has brought her from ecological research in the Serengeti, to environmental edAmanda Dowd, ANZSJA, IAAP
The Cultural Complex and the Environment: A Case Study
In predominantly semi-arid Australia, over 200 years of mostly inappropriate land use has attempted to "remake" the landscape in the image of its colonizer. The transplanted image of Nature/God from the North usurps th
the most part, indigenous knowledge. The fragile soils and complexities of ecosystems, so different from the North, are succumbing to salination, desertification, species loss and drought. This represents a tragic playing o
will describe something of the origins of a pattern of disavowal and disconnectedness which the presenter feels originated in the primal terrors of exile when, in 1788, the first "convict settlers" and therefore psychological a
survival--disavowing the trauma of dislocation and the recognition that it is we who are the foreigners, the projection of fear and hatred of the unknown Other onto land and indigenous population alike--has resulted in an a
Amanda Dowd, ANZSJA, IAAP is a Jungian Analyst and former biologist/teacher. As a migrant to Australia she has had direct experience of "coming to terms with the land as Other." After 15 years practising with migran
and external landscapes is pivotal to her practice and has contributed to thinking about an emergent therapeutic metaphor specific for "country." What also particularly interests her are the psychocultural factors that disru
Africa. She has an undergraduate degree in biology from Colorado College and a Masters in Agriculture-Rural Resource Management from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Meghan currently works for The Ojai Foundati
course, and adult wellness programs. |