Storying Our Relationship With Nature

This book takes readers on a journey that is part storytelling, part academic analysis, and part spiritual exploration. The authors identify the climate emergency as a breakdown in spiritual consciousness which fails to recognize our deep interconnection with Nature. To meet this crisis of spirit, Storying Our Relationship with Nature serves as a guide for transforming ourselves and our lives through story and highlights the importance of social and emotional aspects of environmental education. The authors introduce the philosophical and historical foundations of our objectification of Nature as a commodity and describe the effect this view has on our lives. They detail a path forward through storytelling, contemplative practice, Eastern philosophy, and the transformative power of education. Throughout the book, reflective activities provide a space for the reader to personalize their learning, leading the reader towards the book's central message: once we learn to consciously re-story our relationship with Nature, we can transform our cultural narrative of fatalism and greed into one of love, determination, and possibility, helping us move towards a sustainable future.

Change the Story of Your Health is a guide to thinking differently. The story of our health is more in our control than we might think. We can not only reframe our experiences but actually achieve less stress, a sense of well-being and better physical health if we are willing to identify our health story and start to rewrite it. Through Carl Greer's journaling exercises and expanded-awareness practices, anyone can tap into hidden resources for healing. Readers will learn how to let go of obstacles, change their habits, release what is no longer serving them, and bring in what they need to experience greater wellness. Discover practical ways to interact with nature, and work with dreams, your inner healer, your symptoms, and more. Whether you are dealing with aging, unexpected health challenges or ongoing concerns, you will find the tools for writing and bringing to life a new health story. Discover self-healing practices from alternative medical traditions that will transform your health and well-being. The story of our health is more in our control than we might think. We can not only reframe our experiences but actually achieve less stress, a sense of well-being, and better physical health, if we are willing to identify our health story and start to rewrite it. Through Carl Greer's journaling exercises and expanded-awareness practices, anyone can tap into hidden resources for healing. Readers will learn how to let go of obstacles, change their habits, release what is no longer serving them, and bring in what they need to experience greater wellness. Discover practical ways to interact with nature, and work with dreams, your inner healer, your symptoms, and more. Whether you are dealing with ageing, unexpected health challenges, or ongoing concerns, you will find the tools for writing and bringing to life a new health story.

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Mannheim (Anglistisches Seminar), course: PS Literary Studies: American Dark Romanticism, language: English, abstract: The goal of this paper is to outline that the old sailor in A Descent into the Maelstrom realizes on the brink of the abyss how powerful and magnificent nature really is and that he has to define a new relationship to nature, God and rationality if he wants to survive. The short story can be assigned to the genre American Dark Romanticism. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Hermann Melville are the three main writers of the genre. Topics of American Dark Romanticism are Emotions, Anti-Enlightement, Subjectivity, the Supernatural and Nature. A Descent into the Maelstrom is one of two sea tales by Poe besides Ms. Found in the Bottle (Kent Ljungquist “Sublime”). The second chapter deals with the two sides of nature: On the one hand the horror of nature and on the other hand nature as sublime and magnificent. The third chapter will examine the importance of science in A Descent into the Maelstrom. Chapter four will analyse and interpret the survival of the sailor and the last chapter will deal with Poe‘s thoughts on God and nature. A Descent into the Maelstrom is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The short story was first published in April 1841 in Graham‘s Magazine which was edited by Egar Allan Poe. The opening quotation shows three different perspectives on nature that the short story provides: Awe because of the power and greatness, horror because of the dangers and admiration because of the magnificence and sublime of nature. All three sides of nature will occur in A Descent into the Maelstrom and we have to learn how to deal with it. Nowadays many people argue that the modern human has lost his connection to nature. Politicians in talkshows and young people on the streets discuss how to stop the climate change. The ecological movement of the last 30 years tried to protect the environment. Many German highschool graduates spend time in nature in Australia, New Zealand or in the United States after their graduation. The Corona-Crisis shows us how weak and powerless we are even if the latest technology seems to give us power. Apart from talkshows and documentaries, literature offers us a free space that allows us to think about the subject nature in a different way. A Descent into the Maelstrom is a short story that provides us with new trains of thoughts about and helps us to create new ideas about us, nature and our relationship.

“Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I’ve read.” — Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature. Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, ending Pat's long commutes from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last eighteen years, until the beloved literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016. In this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust for life was fueled by a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his home. As she reflects on their relationship and the eighteen years they spent together, cut short by Pat’s passing at seventy, Cassandra reveals how the marshlands of the South Carolina Lowcountry ultimately cast their spell on her, too, and how she came to understand the convivial, generous, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood man beneath the legend—her husband, the original Prince of Tides.

A young worm gets a lesson in life and ecology from his wise father.

This unique resource offers new ideas, stories, creative activities, and methods for people working in conservation, outdoor learning, environmental education, youthwork, business training, sustainability, health, social and economic change. It shows how to encourage pro-environmental behavior in diverse participants: from organization consultants and employees, to families, youth and schoolchildren. The stories and their exploration engage people with nature in profound ways. The book describes how this engagement enhances participants' emotional literacy and resilience, builds community, raises awareness of inter-species communication and helps people to create a sustainable future together. Its innovative techniques establish connections between place and sustainability. Facilitators can adapt all of this to their own situation.

"A renowned scientist studies wolves on a wilderness island, searching for what it means to better relate to the natural world"--