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 [...]
Hey Folks! I'm excited to now be practicing in TWO convenient locations in Portland. I remain at the green (LEED Platinum rated) NuMiss Building in the historic N. Mississippi Avenue neighborhood (where I still have view of Mt. Hood on a good day). I'm also available to see clients in Southeast Portland at Portland Family Health on [...]
Those "best summer reading lists" can be overwhelming—all those good books, and so little time when you actually get down to it. So, I won't inflict that on you. (Well, actually, I will in a bit, since I saw great list from lithub.com I wanted to share. But first...) I'll share two books I really like that may [...]
My videos on "Psychology & Nature" were given Spanish subtitles for use by the Spanish Association of Environmental Psychology and Latin-American Environmental Psychology Network. A reminder: I recently collaborated on this project with videographer Michael Annus and psychologist Tatiana Snyder from Portland Community College. A series of brief Youtube videos were made to introduce the [...]
Date: Friday, June 5, 2015 Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Location: Lewis & Clark Graduate Campus, South Chapel Registration: $125, includes 6.5 CEUs or PDUs, $50 students. Lunch included. Symposium Website I really pleased to host this unique one-day event in Portland! We'll meet on the Lewis & Clark campus, rated #1 Top Green College by [...]
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 [...]
I am really excited to share this new video project. Tatiana Snyder, a psychology instructor at Portland Community College (PCC), has been inspiring new psychology students by showcasing psychologists who have interesting practice niches. So, she invited me to work with PCC video director Michael Annus and editor Lucia DeLisa to describe ecopsychology. This turned [...]
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 [...]
In Honor of International Women's Day, a guest post from my colleague Darrin Gunkel –Thomas Doherty While International Women's Day is technically a labor-oriented holiday, with roots in the communist world, women's work is often at the heart of ecofeminist discussion. Or perhaps I should say ecofeminism discussions, since painting the movement with one sweeping [...]
One of the local events I am most proud of from 2014 is the Nature-Health-Access workshop that I created at Lewis and Clark this past summer. A great group came together to discuss issues in access to healthy green spaces among different cultural groups in the Portland area. — Thomas Doherty Earlier this year [...]
