What is Ecological Psychology?
During the first twenty minutes or so, I will provide a basic overview of ecological psychology (ecopsychology) and its educative approach to unearthing narratives underpinning destructive practices. We’ll briefly explore how humans are ecological and how the constructs of one’s narrative can be explored ecologically.

How it Matters 
I will use one of the ecological processes to demonstrate how it is also a psychological process plus ways to work with the process in exploring a narrative. The objective is to provide participants with a basic overview for how to change narrative and thus change behavior.

Lori Pye, Ph.D., is the founder and president of Viridis Graduate Institute: Ecopsychology and Environmental Humanities. Dr. Pye has led numerous international conferences and founded marine conservation organizations involved in the co-development of the Eastern Pacific Biological Seascape Corridor from Costa Rica to the Galápagos Islands. She serves on the Editorial Board for Ecopsychology Journal. She lectures at the Kaweah Delta Mental Health Hospital (Psychiatric Residency Program), University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in Ecopsychology and Environmental Ethics, and at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the author of the forthcoming textbook, Fundamentals of Ecological Psychology (Routledge, 2023). For more information, visit www.viridis.edu