2nd Edition

Terrapsychological Inquiry Restorying Our Relationship with Nature, Place, and Planet

By Craig Chalquist Copyright 2024
212 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Terrapsychological Inquiry is a path of storied, imaginative research that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world. This place-rooted approach studies, from the standpoint of lived experience, how the world gets into the heart. Oceans and skies, trees and hills, rivers and soils, and even built things like houses, cities, ports, and planes: How do they show... Read more

List of Figures

Foreword - Elizabeth Nelson

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Inquiry as Response to the Animate World

1. What is Terrapsychology?

2. Philosophy of the Methodology

3. Preparing for the Work

4. Terrapsychological Inquiry in Practice  

5. Analyzing the Data

6. What the Findings Mean    

7. Sharing the Results    

8. Terrapsychologizing for Life

Glossary

Appendix I: Common Research Obstacles   

Appendix II: Place Assessment Checklist  

Appendix III: Creating Heartsteads 

Appendix IV: Exploring Deep Ancestry

Appendix IV: Exploring Deep Ancestry   

Biography

Craig Chalquist, PhD, is a professor, administrator, consultant, and lecturer, who teaches and writes at the intersection of consciousness, place, story, and imagination. He is program director of Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation at National University, USA. Visit his website, Chalquist.com.