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Ecologial Enquiry’s Founding Logic and Interweaving Sub-Enquiries

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<aside> <img src="/icons/seed_blue.svg" alt="/icons/seed_blue.svg" width="40px" /> ECOLOGICAL ENQUIRY’S FOUNDING LOGIC AND INTERWEAVING SUB-ENQUIRIES

  1. We humans are ecological creatures, meaning that we exist through our entanglement in systems, relationships, and interactions.
  2. These systems, relationships, and interactions - which we are a part of - form a multispecies, multigenerational, multicultural world.
  3. We meet this multispecies, multigenerational, multicultural world through stories, such as worldviews and cosmologies*****, which generate how we are being in systems, relationships, and interactions.
  4. Many of today’s most dominant stories are generating ways of being that are harming our fellow humans, our more-than-human kin, and the Earth because they do not recognise or celebrate the depth of our entanglement in systems, relationships, and interactions.
  5. Through ecological enquiry, we can gain an embodied knowing of the our entanglement in the systems, relationships, and interactions that form this multispecies, multigenerational, multicultural world and therefore gain an embodied knowing of self and world as ecological.
  6. Knowing humans and world as ecological can generate stories that recognise and celebrate self and world as ecological.
  7. Meeting the world through stories that recognise and celebrate self and world as ecological can generate ways of being that are more ecologically curious, attuned, response-able, and generous.

From this founding logic, Ecological Enquiry is formed of three interweaving lines of enquiry:

  1. How do we experience self and world as ecological? Here, we hold curiosity about how we individually and collectively experience being ecological: the differences and similarities of language, framings, and experiences of self and world as ecological.
  2. What stories are we are meeting the world through? Here, we utilise critical thinking to investigate the roots, (lower case) truth, and outcome of personal and collective worldviews and cosmologies.
  3. What ways of being are ecologically aligned? Here, we explore the blocks, challenges, hopes, and possibilities that arise when intending to be more ecologically curious, attuned, response-able, and generous. </aside>

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*Here, worldviews = the stories we hold about being human and our relationship to / place within the world.

Examples being capitalism, neo-colonialism, socialism, whiteness, social justice, a kin-centric perspective / a human-centric perspective.

And cosmologies = the stories we hold about how the universe works and relationship to / place within the world.

Examples being religions and their teachings about how God made the world, the Big Bang theory, Greek Gods, animism, paganism, humans at the centre of the universe.

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