Meet Dr. Craig Chalquist. Dr. Craig Chalquist is a professor, presenter, workshop leader, and writer who combines psychology, consulting, storytelling, folklore, and nature reconnection practices. Craig edited "Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind" with Linda Buzzell. Dr. Chalquist coined the term “terrapsychology” to describe the study of how our natural surroundings can manifest intimately in human psychology. He also coined “enchantivism,” a form of storytelling that moves from human injustice to a vision of how we most desire to live as a global community.

 Dr. Chalquist is the founder of the world’s first ecotherapy certificate program (Certificate in Ecotherapy at JFK University) and Dr. Chalquist is on the board of Holos Institute and the editorial board of the journal Ecopsychology. His most recent book is "Terrapsychological Inquiry: Restorying Our Relationship with Nature, Place, and Planet". "Terrapsychological Inquiry" is a qualitative research methodology seeking a form of inquiry that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world. Terrapsychology is a theory and practice approach that 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 up for us inwardly? How do our moods, feelings, and dreams reflect what happens in the world?

 

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FORMER ADJUNCT PROFESSOR: PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES, SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

CURRENT BOARD MEMBER: HOLOS INSTITUTE, PSYCHWORKS, NATURE 120 INC., JOURNAL OF ECOPSYCHOLOGY