Eco Organic Life
What is an eco-organic life? It is reorienting oneself to be the creator of a life lived deeply, intentionally, and authentically. Freeing oneself from the controls of a socio-economic lifestyle in order to realign with an inherent nature and sense of purpose. When we are living mindfully, making conscious choices for our families, and ourselves we quickly realize that our well-being is in a reciprocal relationship with the health of our environment. Finding ways to sustain our natural environmental resources begins with sustaining the natural resources of the human spirit. Interconnected with the ‘waking’ of life through self-care, is the awakening of our relationship with the planet that sustains us. Eco-Organic living is a process for re-membering our true nature through an integration of ecological values, health, and well-being. The master key to wisdom and cognitive liberation can be found in our ability to expand our consciousness beyond acquired beliefs and attitudes to a deeper reality.
The secret lies in conserving what sustains life, letting go of what limits and harms, embracing beneficial relationships, and disallowing destructive adaptations. Begin by following Nature’s Example.
- Learn to work WITH nature and natural processes instead of against them.
- Enable our selves to shift consciously to more natural, ecological models for living creatively and with compassion.
- Reframe old habits of mind that condition us to live within a given situation, giving authority to institutions, and only thinking within the box to define the purpose and function of all our activities.
- (Mezirow 1991, p. 167). "Perspective transformation is the process of becoming critically aware of how and why our assumptions have come to constrain the way we perceive, understand, and feel about our world; changing these structures of habitual expectation to make possible a more inclusive, discriminating, and integrating perspective; and, finally, making choices or otherwise acting upon these new understandings" (ibid.).
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EOL Principles & Ethics
Transformative Learning Opportunities.
Perhaps one of the best definitions of transformative learning was put forward by O'Sullivan (2003):
"Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and irreversibly alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and with the natural world; our understanding of relations of power in interlocking structures of class, race and gender; our body awarenesses, our visions of alternative approaches to living; and our sense of possibilities for social justice and peace and personal joy."
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Northwest Earth Institute Discussion Courses
Eco-Organic Living & Whole Health Matters
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North Texas Society for Sustainability will be hosting a series of NWEI Discussion Courses.
The course outlines and readings were developed by The Northwest Earth Institute. http://www.nwei.org/ The courses are designed to facilitate profound and enduring change in values, attitudes, habits, and actions of individuals and organizations through people coming together in dialogue.
If you are interested in joining a group dialogue here in the Dallas area; please contact:
Rachel@ntsustain.org
469-569-9012
• CHOICES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING
• VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY
• DISCOVERING A SENSE OF PLACE
• EXPLORING DEEP ECOLOGY
• GLOBALIZATION AND ITS CRITICS
• HEALTHY CHILDREN
These self-facilitated discussion courses are taken informally by small groups in a home, workplace at noon, center of faith, or other place where people naturally gather. They are offered in all 50 states. NWEI's hallmark program is a series of discussion courses, developed in Portland, but available to groups anywhere in the United States: If you are interested in starting a discussion course in your area: Please mention you were referred by North Texas Society For Sustainability, Rachel Lueke and contact: