Aliveness Initiative

A Growing Community of Practice
The truth of interdependence is all around us. As ecological beings, we are interwoven with the web of life. Our species depends on nature's gifts — food, pollinators, clean air and water, healthy soil, etc. — for our very survival, and our bodies have more non-human cells than human , begging the question of who is in charge. We are not isolated beings, and our bodies co-regulate with the community of life, through processes of synchrony, coherence, and communitas.
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Together, oneness and interbeing open a profound embodied awareness of the interconnectedness of all life and in this sensing into life’s interdependence. And, as all life is interconnected, all life senses back, charting a path toward personal and planetary healing. Oneness necessitates new language and mysteriocentrism, a centering of spirit, or interbeing in human consciousness, communities and well-being.
Join our community to learn, participate and support our growing communities of practice:
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Webinars and Reading Groups - Facilitated conversation and occasional webinars with those advancing Aliveness - researchers, indigenous wisdom keepers, spiritual leaders, health professionals, ecologists, and more.…
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Emergent Interbeing - A dialogic practice and relationship with interbeing and collective consciousness.
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Emboding Complexity and the Ecological Self – Exploring sacred geometry, emergence, living systems, ecological principles and complexity science.
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From Burnout to Belonging Fellowship/ Training/Experiential Programming
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One Sacred Earth Project - An Embodied Gratitude Practice
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Aliveness Network – those desiring to understand and integrate both an embodied connection to nature and next steps towards interbeing and nature positive practices.
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And more

Suggested Resources
Books:
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth Hardcover – by Zoë Schlanger
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Papers and Publications:
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The Next Health System by Jamie Harvie
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Toward an Ecological View of Health: An Imperative for the Twenty-First Century by Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
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Solastalgia: the distress caused by environmental change Albrecht et al
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A pledge for planetary health to unite health professionals in the Anthropocene Wabnitz K., et al.
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The declaration of interdependence David Suzuki Foundation
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Experiential Activities;
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One Sacred Earth Project Group gratitude practice
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Try Out The Nature Relatedness Scale. The Nature Relatedness Scale (NR-6) measures the strength of one’s psychological relationship to nature, a characteristic associated with happiness and well-being.