OUR
SPEAKERS
Lectures
DAY 01 - OPENING LECTURE:
Ecopsychology and Climate Crisis: Restoring Relationships
with the Planet
Marco Aurélio Bilibio
Clinical Psychologist with 30 years of practice. Gestalt-Therapist. He is currently developing a dialogue between Gestalt-Therapy, Jungian Analysis and Ecopsychology with the objective of supporting a practice of Ecotherapy based on the three approaches. MSc in Clinical Psychology and Culture from the University of Brasília. PhD in Sustainable Development at the University of Brasília, with a thesis on Ecopsychology. Pioneer in the introduction of Ecopsychology in Brazil and representative of IES. Broadcaster and lecturer.
Claudio Antonio Pereira
Doctor in Communication, Social Change and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid. Spain. Master in Anthropology and Development. University of Chile and Psychologist from the University of Valparaíso. Psychotherapist and Primal Dance Teacher certified by the School of Integral Transpersonal Psychology. Ecopsychologist, Coach and Facilitator of Transformation Processes from a Regenerative approach. Specialized in Integral Transpersonal Psychology and Psychodrama for group facilitation. Presents Lines of Research in the fields of Ecopsychology, Regenerative Cultures and Social Psychology. Co-founder of Koru Transformación Instituto de Ecopsicología Chile Colombia and coordinator in Chile of the Ecotuning Training. Representative in Chile of the International Ecopsychologyst Society.
Lectures
DIA 02 - TOPIC:
ECOPSYCHOLOGY AND DECOLONIALISM
LECTURE: Southern Epistemologies and Ecopsychology: Paths to Community Regeneration
Lectures
DAY 03 - TOPIC:
CLIMATE CRISIS AND
PSYCHIC SUFFERING
Lecture 1: “Climate and Human Psychology in Crisis. The Contribution of Ecopsychology to Global Balance”
Kleio Apostolaki
Ezequiel Álvarez Vega is a musician and has a degree in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 1981, he actively participates in different organizations that dedicate their efforts and energy to the solution of environmental-ecological problems. Precursor of Ecopsychology, in his country, has been trained in different Emerging Fields of Psychology. Performing both in the clinical and academic ambit. He founded in 2013 the Centro de Ecopsicologia de Argentina (CEA) that offers courses, workshops, experiential meetings and training in the topics that concern Education, Personal Growth, Ecology and Ecopsychology from the framework and model of Complex Integral Epistemology.
Teresita Dominguez
In deep connection with nature, I live and experience it deeply with all my senses. In my personal and professional life you will know me as Dr. in Medical and Health Sciences, an ecopsychologist, and lifestyleactivist. I'm a trainer and facilitator in nature connection and sustainable and regenerative development. I developed a model that helps people to deepen their nature connection, in order to change their lifestyle. My mission and passion exists about helping professionals in re-connecting with their inner and outer nature, for a better self-care, care for the other, society and earth. My work is focused on inviting professionals in healthcare, education and other sectors to include the relation human-nature in their work and guidance. Very enthusiastic to be part of this international network, to learn from each other and especially support each other in the work we are doing.
Lectures
DAY 03 - TOPIC:
CLIMATE CRISIS AND
PSYCHIC SUFFERING
Lecture 2: "Disconnection from life in psychotherapy consultations. Its relationship with the climate crisis" Speakers: Teresita Dominguez, Ana Luiza Diaz, Ximena Piastri
Lectures
DAY 03 - TOPIC:
CLIMATE CRISIS AND
PSYCHIC SUFFERING
Lecture 2: "Disconnection from life in psychotherapy consultations. Its relationship with the climate crisis" Speakers: Teresita Dominguez, Ana Luiza Diaz, Ximena Piastri
Ximena Piastri
Tina Fields, Ph.D., was raised in the Great Basin desert in northern Nevada, USA. Once having learned to listen to those subtle voices, she dedicated her life to helping people come into more respectful, reciprocal, joyful and magical relationship with our kin in other sorts of bodies. Dr. Fields currently serves as full Professor in the Ecopsychology M.A. program in at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She has taught about the psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of sustainability issues since 1999, including five years of living and learning fully outdoors. She is co-editor of So What? Now What? The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World in Crisis. She is also an accomplished visual and performing artist (contra dance caller, songleader, storyteller), and a scholar/practitioner of latter-day Druidry. She is an active member of the Wilderness Guides Council, and is ACISTE certified for working with spiritually transformative experiences.
Marcella Danon
Italian psychologist, supervisor counselor and journalist. Promotes Ecopsychology in Italy since 1996. She studied with a direct student of Roberto Assagioli and works in training for personal growth in the professional and business. She completed her education with seminars and vocational retraining in California, Holland and Spain, with some of the most important figures in this field: Fritjof Capra, Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown and Anna Halprin. She teaches Ecopsychology at the University of Valle D'Aosta (Univda), together with the ecologist Giuseppe Barbiero and Stefania Pinna. She founded in 2004 and heads in Osnago (Lc), “Ecopsiché”, the Italian School of Ecopsychology, that combines personal awareness and environmental ethics. The School offers training and refresher courses for professionals in the world of psychology and education, training group leadership and personal growth “in nature, with nature, for nature.” She is co-founder of the International Ecopsychology Society (IES), member of the Elders Circle and has been the president from 2009 to 2012.
Lectures
DAY 04 - TOPIC:
ANIMISM, ENCHANTIVISM AND REGENERATIVE ACTIONS
LECTURE 1: The power of eco-ethical leadership in transformational change in relation to climate change and
the social and ecological crisis.
Speakers: Marcela Dannon and Ann Sterckx
Lectures
DAY 04 - TOPIC:
ANIMISM, ENCHANTIVISM AND REGENERATIVE ACTIONS
Ann Sterckx
In deep connection with nature, I live and experience it deeply with all my senses. In my personal and professional life you will know me as Dr. in Medical and Health Sciences, an ecopsychologist, and lifestyleactivist. I'm a trainer and facilitator in nature connection and sustainable and regenerative development. I developed a model that helps people to deepen their nature connection, in order to change their lifestyle. My mission and passion exists about helping professionals in re-connecting with their inner and outer nature, for a better self-care, care for the other, society and earth. My work is focused on inviting professionals in healthcare, education and other sectors to include the relation human-nature in their work and guidance. Very enthusiastic to be part of this international network, to learn from each other and especially support each other in the work we are doing.
LECTURE 1: The power of eco-ethical leadership in transformational change in relation to climate change and
the social and ecological crisis.
Speakers: Marcela Dannon and Ann Sterckx
Marian Rios
IES Representative in Colombia. President of IES Global for the period 2023-2025. Ecopsychologist, Psychologist, Master in Social Anthropology, Integral Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Primal Dance Teacher from the School of Integral Transpersonal Psychology of Argentina - EPTI. Comprehensive, systemic and relational coach and facilitator. Co-creator of the Koru Model of design and facilitation of transformational experiences based on regenerative and ecosystemic paradigms. Coordinator and Co-creator of the International Diploma in Ecosystem Facilitation (DIFE), jointly fenced with ERES (Schools of Ecosocial Regeneration). Coordinator, teacher and mentor of the Ecotuning Training - Fence in Applied Ecopsychology of Koru Transformación Chile and Colombia. Co-creator of Ecodance, dancing our being nature.
Lectures
DAY 04 - TOPIC:
ANIMISM, ENCHANTIVISM AND REGENERATIVE ACTIONS
ROUND TABLE: ECOFEMINISMS AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EARTH SPEAKER 1: Ecofominism: Its role in the processes towards ecoresilience
Palestras Confirmadas
DAY 04 - TOPIC:
ANIMISM, ENCHANTIVISM AND REGENERATIVE ACTIONS
ROUND TABLE: ECOFEMINISMS AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EARTH SPEAKER 2: Pain, Death and Regeneration - an Ecopsychotherapeutic perspective on suffering related to female survival and the loss of the Iberian ancestral man.
Claudia Rodrigues
Specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology and Psychotherapy (from the Association of Portuguese Psychologists (OPP); Master in Help Relationship – Perspectives of Phenomenological-Existential Psychotherapy, from ISPA/Lisbon and Regent's College School of Psychotherapy/London; Existential Psychotherapist (Effective Member), from the Portuguese Society of Existential Psychotherapy (SPPE); Focusing Trainer/ Guidance Psychotherapist by Focusing, the Portuguese Society of Existential Psychotherapy and Focusing Institute of New York; 17 years of clinical experience, including practice in Gerontology and hospital practice, and personal development of Existential Psychotherapists; and with Nature. ALMA GAIA is a project that takes place in Serra da Arrábida/ Palmela - Portugal, in a Cooperation for Ecological and Economic Sustainability (@Biovilla Sustentabilidade). Alma Gaia has services based on Ecopsychology and Ecopsychotherapy: * Individual Psychotherapy Sessions in Nature (Outdoor & Indoor), * Psychotherapy groups (women's circles), and * Reconnection with Nature Workshops (following the Celtic-Iberian roots and calendar). This project has a strong basis in the areas of environmental protection and mental health.