Exploring ecologicalness

Ecological enquiry is a branch of enquiry that is fascinated with ecologicalness as innate state of being and possible way of being.

It can be described as sitting at the intersection of ecology, story, and practise, an enquiry practise through which we can seek out, or deepen, our attunement to and relationship with the relationality, complexity, and interbeing that we human creatures are entangled within.

It can also be described as a re-storying of ancient, communal knowings of ecologicalness.

While philosophical enquiry is a pathway into exploring the nature of existence, knowledge, reality, and ethics, ecological enquiry is a pathway into exploring the relational nature of existence, knowledge, and reality, and the frameworks and stories that guide and world us; and that we world through.

Head to the extensive and freely-shared online guidebook at ecologicalenquiry.co.uk to find out more about the theory, history, and lineage, and suggested pathways of learning and practise.

DEEPENING RELATIONSHIP WITH RELATIONALITY, COMPLEXITY, AND INTERBEING.

CURIOUS ABOUT ECOLOGICAL ENQUIRY? You're warmly invited to join a free Ecological Enquiry taster session.

Experience this living practice and way of being that helps us discover the depth of relationality, complexity, and interbeing that informs us as individuals, groups, and organisations at the twice-monthly free taster sessions.

These sessions are participatory. You will be guided through different exercises and placed into small breakout groups to practise and therefore these sessions won't be suitable for people that prefer to absorb information rather than participate.

Sessions are held twice a month:

╰┈➤ First Tuesday of the month: 3-4pm UK // 4-5pm CEST.
╰┈➤ Third Tuesday of the month: 10.30-11.30am UK // 11.30am - 12.30pm CEST.

Register for the date and time of your choosing here.

MARCH 2025: CLOSED GROUP RUNNING TILL END OF SEPTEMBER

ThIS action enquiry is bringing together a groups organisational founders, leaders, and stewards so we can apply a shared gaze to the challenges and enquiries and possibilities that we meet when we start to move organisations into being more ecological.

Through combining ecological enquiry with experimental action, we are discovering new pathways forwards for each of us and our associated organisations that we would likely not find alone.

Find out more about this enquiry.

MARCH 2025: SEASON 4 STARTING IN JUNE 2025 BUT CLOSED TO NEW MEMBERS AT THIS TIME

Founded in 2023, Facilitation Pods are time-bound, small-group enquiries into what comes alive in a facilitated space, for participants and for facilitators.

In the pods, we utilse ecological enquiry to 'investigate' individual and collective experiences as faciltators in relation to cultural stories, ancestry, place, histories, systems, family dynamics, and possible futures. We have been carefully evolving the pods into a shared commons and crafting new roles as co-stewards. To support this transition, we've taken ourselves through ceremonies and rituals of letting go and arriving, appreciating and honouring.

Season 3 is full and started Autumn 2024, with 2 new pods running, a Novice Facilitators' Pod and Seasoned Facilitators' Pod.

COMPLETED What could a framing of 'inner rewilding' mean for our experiences of queering bodies, whether through chronic health issues or intense and unexpected health issues?

Started in March 2024, Chronic Health Issues and Inner Rewilding was a time-bound, small-group facilitated enquiry inspired by the article 12 Steps to Inner Rewilding by Thomas Klaffke. UItilising ecological enquiry, we explored becoming closer to our selves and our bodies as ecological beings, rewilding ourselves and our bodies, and what these questions mean for people navigating chronic health issues or intense and unexpected health issues.

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