JUNGIAN.DIRECTORY

Advanced Training Certificate: Ecopsychology

Andy Fisher, Mary-Jayne Rust, Jeanine M. Canty, Garret Barnwell
Start Date: 26/01/2026
End Date:01/05/2026
Scheduled course
Online
more information

Overview

This Advanced Training Certificate in Ecopsychology, offered online over 13 weeks, has the distinct advantage of combining four perspectives from four internationally renowned authors, educators, and transformational leaders in the fields of Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy. Ecopsychology brings ecology and psychology together to create novel and exciting approaches to the urgent needs of our time. Although its most visible face is the practice of Ecotherapy, which emphasizes the synergy between human well-being and the health of the planet, a number of other avenues have been developed, including those involving depth-psychological, multicultural, transpersonal, community, and liberatory engagement with earthly places, thereby cultivating personal and cultural transformation. In this program, we will also explore Ecopsychology considered as a socially and philosophically radical project that integrates psychology and ecology by questioning much of the conventional thought and practice currently found in these two arenas.

Because the practices and ideas of Ecopsychology are open to everyone, this Certificate neither requires nor confers a license or degree. It is designed as an overview offering a range of concepts, techniques, and strategies by surveying a number of key approaches to Ecopsychology. It will be of interest to everyone—clinicians, coaches, activists, and curious others—looking for a more holistic and engaged way forward. The Certificate offers a range of readings, lectures, weekly reflections, and live sessions, so participants will need to make sufficient space in their schedules to learn as much as they can over the 13 weeks.

Each week you will learn from: an audio or video presentation by Andy, Jeanine, Mary-Jayne, or Garret; a list of required or recommended Readings/Videos/Resources; online Discussion with the other participants and instructors, based on the responses you post each week to that week’s assignment; and a Live session with one of the instructors. Live sessions will be scheduled at varying times in order to maximize participation, and will be recorded for those who cannot attend a given week. Assignments include indoor and outdoor exercises designed to deepen learning and enrich nature connection.

  • Seek to deepen your understanding of the relationship between psyche and nature—and explore how ecological awareness transforms psychology, culture, and community life.
  • Work in a helping or healing profession (such as psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, education, or community engagement) and wish to integrate ecopsychological and nature-based practices into your work.
  • Are passionate about social and environmental justice and want to explore how psychological insight and ecological awareness can support decolonization, resilience, and collective healing.
  • Desire a transformative learning experience that blends academic rigor, personal reflection, and cross-cultural, interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field.
  • Value flexible, interactive online learning with live sessions, recorded lectures, and global dialogue among an international community of learners.

Learning Objectives for CEC Attendees (13 Hours):

  1. Identify and describe the different “generations” of ecopsychology (module 1)
  2. Name at least two challenges of the radical approach to ecopsychology (module 2)
  3. Discuss how western, globalized corporate culture has affected our individual egos and the impact this has on our ability to connect with nature (module 3)
  4. Describe three characteristics of the recollective dimension of ecopsychology  (module 4)
  5. Identify integrative praxis in radical ecopsychology  (module 5)
  6. Identify three ways that the ecological crisis affects communities of color, indigenous communities and women (module 6)
  7. Name three eco therapy practices and describe the ways in which they are reciprocal, healing humans AND the rest of nature. (module 7)
  8. Assess how eco anxiety manifests within you and which eco-therapy practices help you to live with it. (module 8)
  9. Identify three forms of eco-therapy that do not depend on being outdoors. Discuss how each form of practice helps to deepen our relationship with the more-than-human-world. (module 9)
  10. Discuss the role that the transpersonal self plays in collective healing (module 10)
  11. Describe two influences exerted on the mind and body that originate from where we live (module 11)
  12. Name three characteristics of ecopsychosocial accompaniment (module 12)
  13. Discuss the importance of witnessing the climate justice struggle from an ecopsychological perspective (module 13)
Translate »