Ecological Grief & Reconnection
Climate change. The loss of species. Landscapes disappearing. Knowing what you know and continuing to live an ordinary life. The split this creates is a healthy response to an unreasonable situation. It grows out of love for what is threatened.
This grief does not need managing or systematising. It needs room. Room to be felt in the body, held in community, and met in contact with the living world the grief concerns.
I facilitate this work in groups, usually in nature, as bounded processes of at least three days. That is long enough for real contact, somatic depth, and the reflection that only comes when things slow down enough to be felt.
We practise holding both stories unfolding in our time: the breakdown of systems, and the great turning that is under way at the same time. In that room, many find their spark again, and their own gifts toward healing the systems we belong to.
Tools and lineages:
I am a practising facilitator of the Work That Reconnects, the framework developed by Joanna Macy based on the philosophical roots of Arne Næss. It is one of several threads that inform the work.
Deep Time Walk guided by Martin with 80 participants - Clip from Documentary
Video: Alvaro Alvarez
A guided walk through 4.6 billion years, where each step equals one million years. Geological time is experienced in the body, step by step, with nature as part of the telling.
As part of the walk I often lead the Systems Game, a simple movement practice without words, in which the group discovers how a self-organising system arises.
Contact
To protect the depth of the work and maintain a dedicated container for those I accompany, I do not offer short-term symptomatic therapy or automated bookings. All engagements begin with a deliberate, non-committal written inquiry.
I take on a strictly limited number of individual clients and leadership teams at any given time to ensure that my presence remains uncompromised and fully integrated.
If you wish to apply for individual accompaniment, specialist supervision, or an organizational process, please send a brief overview of your current threshold, your intent, and whether you are applying under the corporate scale or the individual sliding scale.