Terrapsychological Inquiry: Restorying Our Relationship with Nature, Place, and Planet

Terrapsychological Inquiry is a research method that investigates how the natural world affects our inner emotions, thoughts, and dreams. It evolved over a decade through exploration by practitioners of embodied creativity and offers an Earth-honoring mode of qualitative inquiry that transforms participants into active, sensitive participants. This updated edition provides insights into how it can be used as an ecospiritual path and is relevant to students and scholars of environmental psychology, ecotherapy, and environment and sustainability studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 196 pages
Publication date: 11 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Terrapsychological Inquiry is a profound and imaginative research path that delves deeply into our profound inner reactions to the state of the natural world. Rooted in the concept of place, this approach explores, from the perspective of lived experience, how the world resonates within us. It examines the intricate ways in which oceans, skies, trees, hills, rivers, soils, and even constructed elements such as houses, cities, ports, and planes manifest internally. It also explores how our moods, feelings, and dreams reflect the events occurring in the world around us.

Over a decade of exploration by graduate students, instructors, ceremonialists, workshop leaders, and presenters, as well as other practitioners of embodied creativity, Terrapsychological Inquiry has emerged as a groundbreaking mode of qualitative inquiry that honors the Earth. This approach transforms all participants from passive observers of the world's actions into active, sensitive contributors. By employing this methodology of earthly reenchantment in various settings, both within and outside academia, individuals can reconnect with the living world and rediscover their place within it.

This revised edition of Terrapsychological Inquiry has undergone a thorough revision, with a new chapter added and discussion questions and exercises provided at the end of each chapter. This introduction to an evolving research methodology will be of immense interest to students and scholars of environmental psychology, ecotherapy, and environment and sustainability studies, broadly.

In conclusion, Terrapsychological Inquiry is a transformative research path that invites us to explore the profound connections between our inner selves and the natural world. Through a place-rooted approach, it offers insights into how the world resonates within us, shaping our moods, feelings, and dreams. By engaging with this methodology, we can reconnect with the living world and rediscover our place within it, fostering a deeper sense of connection and responsibility for our planet.

Weight: 328g
Dimension: 155 x 235 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032612942
Edition number: 2 ed