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.

COMPLETED The Ecological Organisations Action Enquiry was an eight-month deep-dive into stewarding ecological organisations for organisational founders and leaders, completed in the autumn of 2025.

Circle intentions:

1. Bring together diverse groups of 3 to 5 organisational founders, leaders, or stewards that are excited to act as the bridge between our action enquiry and ecological organisation experimentation within their associated organisations.

2. Marry ecological enquiry, so that we can bring into the light what lies behind our blindspots, worldviews, and experiences, with experimental action within associated organisations, so that we can start to test out how the organisational systems respond to the changes we ignite and bring our learnings back into ecological enquiry.

3. Hold participants and their associated organisations as unique, whole, complex, and of equal worth, with unique experiences of and references for 'being ecological' that arise from place, culture, histories, language, worldviews, and more.

Find out more about this enquiry.

COMPLETED: After three seasons, the Facilitation Pods Commons evolved into the Nature Enquiry Circle, a co-stewarded and currently closed enquiry group in its second season.

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 utilsed 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.

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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