Lily Fessenden
“Toward a Participatory Worldview: Awakening to Our Interdependent Nature,” connects the global environmental crisis to the disconnection between people and nature in the western consumer society and discusses how a change in worldview will require an experience of that connection. Lily states that “The transformative learning I discuss includes ecopsychology, and experiential and ecological education. I make the case that developing ecological consciousness, or awakening to our interdependent nature, can create a participatory worldview that positively affects industrialized human behavior towards a more sustainable future.”
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Lily Fessenden has been a faculty member of the Ecological Teaching and Learning and Environmental Education masters programs at Audubon Expedition Institute of Lesley University and now serves as division director. She is working on a Ph.D. in the Humanities with a concentration in transformational learning and change at the California Institute for Integral Studies. Lily is currently involved in a sustainable living experiment on 152 acres in Maine and sits on the advisory board of the Institute for Body, Mind and Spirituality at Lesley University.
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