a zine that looks at issues around activism, mental health, community, sustainability, and my own personal struggles with depression and despair for a fucked-up and beautiful world. an evolving and expanding project that i hope might include you.
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- Fall 2007
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health pattrice jones is one of my favorites. check out her blog and her great book "Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World - A guide for activists and their allies". i read it after i wrote counterbalance so it is not included in the zine's bibliography.
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health hello friends, i am very excited to finally be going to a joanna macy workshop this weekend. her work inspired a lot of the counterbalance zine and i wrote about her in there...now i finally get to expereince her work in person. i'll send out my thougths after the weekend, in the meantime check out her website.
www.joannamacy.net
The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world-we've actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake ...
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health theodore roszak has a new book out. he is the guy who coined the term "ecopsychology" and who edited/contributed to the first anthology on the topic in 1995 - this is one of my main "fields" of interest/study. books, books, and more books! and activism/social change!
www.newsociety.com
The Summer of Love. Vietnam. Woodstock. These are the milestones of the baby boomer generation Theodore Roszak chronicled in his 1969 breakthrough book The Making of a Counter Culture. Part of an unprecedented ...
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health i have recently been enjoying this new article by david abram (of "spell of the sensuos" fame) about the weather and how it effects us and connects us to the natural world. on a similar note, i've been writing and thinking about the northwest, rain, clouds, and depression.
www.orionmagazine.org
In which the author proposes an entirely new definition of what it means to be one with nature.
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health
hello friends - so nice to see new faces here - folks that i don't know - how exciting. i hope to hear from you and have dialogues here in facebook land.
a current prof of mine just posted an essay i wrote on his website (see the attachment and look alphabetically by last name for kristi kenney). it is called "learning ...to love california" and explores place and psychology through the lens of terrapsychology, a term and field my prof is pioneering.
i'm thinking about doing another essay in this vein about the pacific northwest and depression....
thanks to all you guys out there! send me notes!!! xo, k. counterbalance
www.terrapsych.com
terrapsych.com - serving the animate presence of place
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health hello - thanks to everyone who has become "fans" - nice to see faces i both know and don't know! send me you thoughts if you are so inclined! take care, kristi/counterbalance
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health
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In our species, knowledge of who we are is linked to origins and beginnings, and it is communicated as a mythology. The first obligation to society by young men and women who are being initiated into adult ...
healing through the dark emotions: the wisdom of grief, fear, and despair by Miriam Greenspan Aftershock: confronting trauma in a violent world - a guide for activist and their allies by pattrice jones Trauma Stewardship: an everyday guide to caring for self while caring for others by Laura...
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health thanks friends for become connected to this just beginning page...so, should a counterbalance #2 happen? i had never thought of it that way but some folks have mentioned it. what would the theme be? who would want to contribute? where do i start?!
Counterbalance: What sustains us? What stops us? Activism & Mental Health welcome, i am a fan unto myself. does this work?
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