“Ideally your office should have a clean, living, generative sense—one that fosters a renewed sense of physical vitality, alertness and creativity for your clients and yourself…” At the 2013 American Psychological Association (APA) Meeting, I provided a therapist’s perspective at presentation “Design of the Psychotherapist’s Office – Lessons from Research and Experience.” During the talk,… Continue reading An Office that Improves Your Mental Health
Category: Personal Sustainability
Two Ways to Cope When You Feel Bad about Environmental Issues
There are two basic coping strategies that people use to deal with the emotional impacts of environmental issues. It’s helpful to be aware of these, and to know your habitual style. It’s even better to learn how to be flexible and use both strategies to support yourself. Note: I’ll be doing a series of posts in… Continue reading Two Ways to Cope When You Feel Bad about Environmental Issues
Contacting your elected officials? INSERT YOUR DREAM HERE
The story goes that during Reverend Martin Luther King’s famous speech at the March at Washington on August 28, 1963, the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson shouted to Rev. King, “Tell them about the dream, Martin!” at which point King set aside his prepared notes to improvise the famous, “I have a dream…” section of his speech.… Continue reading Contacting your elected officials? INSERT YOUR DREAM HERE
Groundhog Day as a Time of Inspiration
Think about the time around Groundhog Day as opportunity to celebrate that you made it through the darkest period of winter. Imagine seeds of inspiration that are stirring within you. Take time to celebrate ancient, Earth-based holidays. It’s an ideal way synchronize your mental health with the seasons of the year and the cycles of… Continue reading Groundhog Day as a Time of Inspiration
Make a Positive Impact With Your Career (and Avoid Giver Burnout)
Life is short. Most of us must work to support ourselves. How can we design our careers so that we can have the most positive impact on the world? The Effective Altruism movement came up on my radar recently. (Maybe through my various research about the concept of the Social Contract?) Effective Altruism tries to… Continue reading Make a Positive Impact With Your Career (and Avoid Giver Burnout)
Coping with an Illegitimate Election
Given today’s inauguration, I wanted to share some thoughts from my perspective as a psychologist. For the record, I am a registered Independent voter in Oregon. Outside of my research and teaching, much of my work goes on behind the scenes in private conversations with people. My approach to psychology has always been that political… Continue reading Coping with an Illegitimate Election
Ten Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change in 2017 | Residence on Earth
via Ten Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change in 2017 | Residence on Earth by Clara Changxin Fang During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump said that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese, he intends to remove barriers to drilling and fracking, and pull the United States out of the Paris Climate… Continue reading Ten Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change in 2017 | Residence on Earth
Second Annual Oregon Ecopsychology Symposium: The Psychology of Interdependence | June 10-11, 2016
I wanted to share news about this second annual event happening in June. This is an incredible group of local speakers, with more being added daily, and the value is outstanding. We had a very powerful experience last year and many new connections were made. The Lewis & Clark campus is beautiful in June. Come… Continue reading Second Annual Oregon Ecopsychology Symposium: The Psychology of Interdependence | June 10-11, 2016
Fund the Therapy Yurt!
Help Mitch get a yurt from Mitchell Bacon on Vimeo. A former student of mine Mitchell Bacon has a droll DIY video for his great Therapy Yurt Indiegogo crowd funding project. He plans to move his psychotherapy office into a yurt in the undeveloped backyard of a holistic health center in Portland. His vision is to create… Continue reading Fund the Therapy Yurt!
Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self Summit at James Madison University
A brief note about a recent summit I attended at James Madison University in Virginia. The event was called “Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self.” Given the title, you can see why I was really excited to be there. This was billed as a “research-to-practice” summit in which educators and representatives from nongovernmental organizations around the… Continue reading Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self Summit at James Madison University