Oliver Bettany is not only a web developer with 16 years experience, he is also a Humanistic counsellor and Ecotherapist with a passion for taking his practice outdoors in order bring his clients’ relationships with nature into the therapeutic process. His Ecopsychology blog More Than Human reflects his commitment to taking a rigorously academic as well as an experimental/experiential approach to his work as an Ecotherapist. He has a private counselling practice in Brighton, Eastbourne and he also sees Ecotherapy clients at Sacred Earth in Horam.
In Praise of Social Permaculture
A (social) permacultural view of the world begins with Zone 00 (the Self), ends with Zone 5 (the wild and natural world), and encompasses everything in between. What excites me most about this approach is that with incredibly simple tools it makes ideas accessible. Ideas which we can find difficult to grasp, in a society that teaches us to focus on individual ‘nodes’ (people, plants, animals, things), rather than the relationships between them.
June 16, 2017