This online course supports individuals to learn and practice ways of relating with natural phenomena that honour the essential nature of living things and processes. 

Lasting 9 weeks, and delivered through weekly group tutorials, the course aims to complement our understanding of the natural world with ways of participating with it. The practices we will explore are designed to support participants to perceive relationships and identify the inherent qualities in natural phenomena. This in turn can lead to finding balance between our questions around environmental ethics and the empirical facts we know about things. 

The course weaves theoretical with experiential content, with the emphasis placed on experiential practice. Participants are given weekly reading material and/or experiential exercises to complete between meetings. Towards the end of the course, there is an opportunity to complete a short personal project with one-to-one support. This gives an opportunity to apply the course material to a topic chosen by the participant. 

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The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the inequalities, un-sustainability and fragility that are endemic to our society. Central to some of the important questions raised by the pandemic is our relationship to the natural world. The purpose of this course is to offer participants ways of engaging with the natural world that are ‘phenomenon-centered'; that begin with an understanding of the inherent and intrinsic nature of phenomena. This offers the possibility to reorient our thinking and actions in ways that are more appropriate to the natural processes and environments that we live in. It also provides a basis to reorient our work and life-styles towards more participatory ways of living with all things around us.