Category: Our Collective
Posts about people in the Collective
Mythic Ways of Knowing
Dream We are all familiar with the way dreams speak to us in strangely assembled images, drawn from the past, interspersed with our fears, and projected into our future. There is even the ‘science’ of travelling through space and time with lucid (consciously aware) dreaming. While dreams clearly have a function in helping us process [...]
Genou Lepani—The Power of Family
A Tribute to my son Genou Tosibogwau Lepani My son's life has taught both him and me the importance of family. On Genou's father's side, in the Trobriand Islands, family is everything and the network of family relationships and obligations is what holds society together through thick and thin. On my side, although our family [...]
Requiem for Blue Mountains National Parks
On 30 November, 2019, we held the 2019 annual Encountering the Wild arts festival at Gallery H and its basement and nearby cafe. We were a little skittish as up the road there was a small grass fire near Bell Railway Station. Our skittishness proved prescient. Huge areas of the Blue Mountains National Park and [...]
Lorraine Shannon—Quotes for January-February 2020
Dancing with Disaster—Kate Rigby It is difficult to think of appropriate quotes when half the country seems to be on fire, human life and homes have been lost, vast numbers of people are being asked to leave areas of NSW and the loss of animal life is estimated to be 500 million – a figure [...]
Encountering the Wild at Dargan 2019
With generous support from Bendigo Community Bank, BMCAN’s Wild Mountain Collective, together with Gallery H and Monkey Creek Café, held their annual Encountering the Wild multi-arts event on the edge of the spectacular Monkey Creek escarpment between Bell and Lithgow, on Saturday 30 November. Peter Carroll, Chair of the Bendigo Sponsorship Committee: The Board of [...]
Peter White on Hope in the Age of Anxiety
https://natureconnect.com.au/genuine-hope-within-the-moment-point-moving-beyond-sugar-coated-hope/BEYOND BEYOND SUGAR COATED OPTIMISM Hope can be genuinely expressed from a position of rationality, that is based on a considered assessment of the situation, the risks and the evidence underpinning the desired outcome. It can be also be expressed from a position of inner knowing, what I described in my last blog as arising […]
Introducing Eco-therapist, Dr Peter White to the WMC
We welcome Peter, a Wentworth Falls eco-psychology practitioner, to the Wild Mountain Collective. With graduate science degrees in ecology and sustainability, and a PhD in ecopsychology, he draws on a 20 year professional career in environmental planning, as well as community activism focused on nature conservation and environmental protection. Over 10 years ago, as part […]
Lorraine’s Quotes for November
From Glenn Albrech, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World (Cornell University Press), 2019 Week 1 “As a consequence of the new scientific knowledge of symbiotic coexistence, I submit that we actually live in the ‘symbioment’. It is a recognition that, at its foundation, life is all about the sumbios, or ‘the living together’ [...]
The Environmental Loss of Solastalgia—Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison Have you cried yet? No? Don’t worry, you will. Maybe it will be a news story about the last ice in a glacier, the last living coral on a reef, or the extinction of a bird you have never seen and never will. Perhaps a TV report, or even a tweet, will finally […]