The Mental Health Benefits of Contact with Nature – On learning from a woodlouse: the process of becoming in a world in which all matter matters.
Link to event: https://zoom.us/j/93690385435?pwd=aUJHYisyMGkwK1lPSk5OeFluOGhIZz09
In this talk Caroline will be inviting ideas about subjectivity, self and other that challenge dualistic, oppositional forces of binary power relations. For example, challenging the notion of the experiential body as the subordinated ‘other’ to language and culture, unpacking the Anthropocentric subordination of all that is not human and questioning an ableist subordination of disability as ‘other’. Caroline will share the story of Eric, a seven-year-old learning disabled boy, and his chance meeting with a woodlouse in a therapy session. The story illustrates how the world can become animated differently when we embrace all matter as active participants in the world’s becoming.
