The EcoSystemic Return
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The EcoSystemic Return is an anthology of papers by and for systemic practitioners that uses an ecological, systemic lens to critically engage with environmental matters such as climate change and wider critical systemic implications. Several chapters address the urgent need for ecological considerations in our societal structures and decisions. Chapters also explore the challenging terrain of global health crises, particularly pandemics, using systems theory and new materialist thinking to understand our interconnected vulnerabilities and strengths.
This collection does not provide easy answers but invites you to participate in a crucial dialogue that is needed right now: it is a call to engage with these diverse perspectives, reflecting on the connections between systemic practices and ecological awareness, to reimagine our place alongside each other, other living creatures and our planet, Earth. It is a journey of rediscovery and reconnection, a voyage back to our roots, and a stepping stone towards a more sustainable future.
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The EcoSystemic Return started life as discussion in a group of systemic therapists about how systemic thinking can counter the problems of climate change and lost local knowledges and practices.
All chapters in this book were originally published as articles across different volumes of Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice - https://murmurations.cloud. The journal editors have kindly given permission to reproduce the papers in this book. The publisher, Everything is Connected Press is a not-for-profit community interest company which supports the independent, fully open access, peer-reviewed journal, Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice.
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Foreword by Tracey Laszloffy
Introduction by Hugh Palmer and Lorna Edwards
1Where did the Eco go in Systemic Practice? Hugh Palmer
2Rewilding Systemic Practice. Chiara Fortina Santin
3Deep Donkey and Dadirri. Asking Creatura out to Play. Roger Duncan
4Lines of Flight. Justine van Lawick5
Re-Membering and Naturing my Life and Work in a Fifth Province. Imelda McCarthy
6Pandemic Disease and Systems Theory. An Ecological View. Stan Amaladas and Ray Becvar
7In Relationship with a Virus: An Argument for "New" Materialist Thinking to be Introduced into Systemic Thinking and an Argument for Why It Has Always Already Been There. Mark Huhnen
8African Indigenous Oral Traditional Endarkened Feminist Practice: Indigenous Knowledge on the Wrong Side of Matter. Julia Jude
9Transmaterial Worlding. Beyond Human Systems. Gail Simon & Leah Salter
10Reclaiming the Relationship with Bodily Knowing through Movement in Nature
Lorna Edwards, Andreas Breden, Chiara Santin, Justine Van Lawick and Erik van der Elst
11Stone Scissors Paper. A Trilogy of Papers. Rambling Reflections by Leah Salter.
The Water Table by Lisen Kebbe. Moving Mountains by Gail Simon
12The Systemic Crisis of Climate Change: Clinical and Political Reflections (2013)
The EcoSystemic Return: Clinical and Political Implications (2021)
Philip Kearney
13"Think Different" to Prevent Extinction. Connecting Gregory Bateson's Cybernetic Epistemology with Posthumanism. Hugh Palmer
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