Adrian Harris

"All orientations and procedures interfere with psychotherapy insofar as they are held to tightly. ... Like procedures, all theories can be destructive, if we think that a person is what a theory says. A person is a who, not a what."

A new paper in 'Clinical Neuropsychiatry ' explains "Why The Polyvagal Theory Is Untenable". It's causing some distress amongst those wedded to Polyvagal Theory. We can learn a lot from what Gendlin said in his 1996 book, 'Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy':👇

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Ecological Crisis as Imaginal Crisis: David Abram's Vision I explore the imaginal dimension at the heart of David Abram's work - the psychological ground that makes his animism and embodied ecology both possible and transformative. Drawing on depth psycho...

Our ecological crisis is at root, an imaginal crisis: A presentation on David Abram's ecological and philosophical vision. academia.edu/164611567/Ec...
#DavidAbram #Imaginal #MoreThanHumanWorld #EcologicalCrisis #Ecopsychology #EnvironmentalHumanities

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The New Animism: Exploring A Relational Worldview with Graham Harvey - Embodied Pathways It has been a great personal pleasure to welcome Graham Harvey to Embodied Pathways. I first met Graham in 1994, when I was one of the organisers of a Magical Conference in London—a fundraising event ...

Have you ever considered what happens when we recognize a mountain or river as a person deserving of respect? "The New Animism: Exploring A Relational Worldview with Graham Harvey":
embodiedpathways.buzzsprout.com/1931957/epis...
#Animism #ecology #Podcast #GrahamHarvey

cover of 'Becoming Animal', by David Abram

I’m on a forum about David Abram’s spiritual, ecological, and philosophical vision on 4 Feb. My talk, 'Ecological Crisis as Imaginal Crisis', explores how our ecological emergency is at root, an imaginal one.
🔗 eicsp.org/events/event...
#davidabram #ecological #imaginal #ecopsychology #philosophy

I’m participating in a forum on David Abram’s spiritual, ecological, and philosophical vision - 4th Feb. My talk, 'Ecological Crisis as Imaginal Crisis', explores how our ecological emergency is an imaginal one.
🔗 eicsp.org/events/event...
#davidabram #ecological #imaginal #ecopsychology #philosophy

Nature Connection: Remembering Wholeness - Network of Wellbeing In a world that moves ever faster, nature offers a quiet remembering. Beneath the noise, notifications and never ending to do lists lies an older rhythm ...

In this guest blog post for the Network of Wellbeing I explore how nature connection can help us remember our wholeness and deepen our relationship with the living world.
networkofwellbeing.org/2025/12/15/n...

Save protesters at risk of imminent death Palestine Action hunger strikers are days from death. He must urgently intervene to prevent their deaths.

January 1996: Women break into UK BAE factory, disarm Hawk warplane bound for Indonesia. Acquitted.
December 2025: Activists break into RAF Brize Norton, spray red paint on military planes. Not yet tried. Now on hunger strike in custody. They may die. Outrageous! secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

YouTube video by Adrian Harris: The Embodied Pathways of Connection How fractal patterns can relieve stress - almost instantly!

The natural fractal patterns you see in the branches of trees are soothing and looking at them can lower your stress levels by up to 60%. Just look up! You'll feel calmer straight away. #calm #calmingvideos #nature #wellbeing youtu.be/kshlLuIAmcI?...

So much for free speech! Sadly we've face this kind of BS before and came out stronger. 🎃

Eco-spirituality pioneer Charlene Spretnak has long inspired me. I sent her my book and she replied with a endorsement:
"[this book] shows us how to achieve a sensuous and aware immersion in nature... so gentle, wise, and encouraging — urgently needed in our hypermodern world.”
I’m deeply honored.

"Nature helps us practice acceptance. It teaches us to see without judgment and reminds us of our deep interconnection with all life. This awareness naturally gives rise to greater compassion". From 'Nature Connection: Remembering Wholeness'.

When will companies give up on AI 'Assistants'? If a dumb AI could solve my problem, I already would have.

There’s been a lot of talk about flags lately, so I thought it was about time I raised one. This is the Union Jill, a symbol of protest at the Twyford Down in the 1990s. It seems appropriate to raise the Union Jill again now as a symbol of resistance to fear, oppression and greed.

"90 seconds of looking a screen that's got trees on it versus the screens that's got the cityscape on it will lower your blood pressure" Professor Kathy Willis. Hard science shows that nature connection heals. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

My first review describes the book I aimed to write:
"inspiring and practical ... I love how it is filled with lots of clear and practical exercises. Really recommend this for all people - no matter how connected to nature you feel we always can go deeper". Thank you!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919179518/

What's Up Docs? - Doctors’ Notes: Nature - BBC Sounds Chris and Xand look a little deeper into the relationship between nature and our health.

It's World Mental Health Day, a perfect moment to remind you that nature heals. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Nature Connection: Remembering Wholeness Reconnect with nature through 60+ practices, audio guides, and podcasts that inspire mindfulness, ecotherapy, and belonging.

“For centuries, we’ve looked for ways in which humans are different from other animals. But this is entirely wrong-headed. What makes us human is not our differences, but our ecological belonging. As a human being, you are a member of a wider community of species and ecosystems. You belong here”.

Solidarity or conflict? The nineteenth century bequeathed two opposing models of how nature works. The most influential version is a certain interpretation of Darwin’s Origin of Species characterized by Herbert Spencer. I…

So they tell us! Keeps people away from dangerous thinkers like Kropotkin😉: adrianharris.org/blog/2022/03...

👍 Rest is Revolution.

Cool! I was working for Friends of the Earth back then.

Very unsatisfying discussion on BBCRadio4 about whether democracy is a failed experiment. Where was the anarchist expert? Sophie Scott-Brown would have offered a genuine alternative. Is anarchist thought ignored because it's uncomfortably reasonable?

"To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles". Mary Davis

I'm the guy sitting. Taken at the UK Twyford Down road protest, early 1990's.

Stories the Forest Told Me - Body Mind Place In the acknowledgments for my new book, ‘Nature Connection: Remembering Wholeness‘, I wrote: “Many of the exercises—and most of the ideas—arose from my time in nature. Thank you to the more-than-human...

Many of the ideas in my new book came not from research, but from time in the woods.
Walking, listening, and noticing with all my senses shaped the book’s 60+ practices—and the stories of Nu and Fa, an ancestral family who live in its pages.
More in my new blog post: adrianharris.org/blog/2025/09...

There are three keys to #nature connection: slow down, get curious, and use all your senses. Find out how these three keys can transform your relationship with the natural world in my new book, 'Nature Connection: Remembering Wholeness'.

Given Reality: embodiment, the other-than-human, our animality.
Invented Reality: Nations, money, etc.
Why do we give so much attention to what's been made up and so little to what's given? Maybe it's partly a distraction 🤔. The result is what we might call an 'industrialized mentality'.