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Ecological enquiry rests on the following foundations:

  1. We humans are ecological creatures, meaning that we rely on a multitude of relationships and interactions to exist.
  2. We are members of a multispecies, multigenerational, multicultural world.
  3. We carry learned worldviews and cosmologies*, and these can change.
  4. If we can open up enough space between us and the stories we carry, we can generally choose how we think about, experience, and show up in the world.

There are then three interweaving lines of enquiry that, combined, compose the practise:

  1. What is it to be an ecological creature? Here, we hold curiosity about how we individually and collectively experience being ecological
  2. What stories are we informing and being informed by? What are the roots of these stories and are these stories of service? Here, we utilise critical thinking to notice and investigate worldviews, stories, and experiences - and, if needed, disrupt them by choosing new stories and worldviews.
  3. What are we choosing to be response-able to, and for, as ecological creatures? Here, we take accountability for how we are in relationship with, and moving within, a multispecies, multigenerational, multicultural world. </aside>

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*Here, worldviews = the way we view human beings and how they are/should be in the world. Examples include: capitalism, colonialism, socialism, whiteness, social justice.

And cosmologies = the way we believe the universe works and the place of human beings in it. Examples include: the idea that God made the world, the Big Bang theory, Greek Gods, animism, paganism.

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