About
As Eco-Chaplains, we aspire to work with individuals and communities as they are re-engaging with the natural world, in a spirit of openness and supportive respect. Acting in the roles of mediators and educators, we help reunite humans with Nature.
We aim to promote a peaceful relationship between human and non-humankind, based on respect for life and the aspiration for all species to be able, eventually, to reinhabit their own ecosystems.
Our goal is to offer an atmosphere of attentive, compassionate empathy, and a gentle process of returning to nature.
We offer courses that teach ordinary people to become the mediators and educators who will encourage and inspire others to reconnect with their innate awareness of the natural world.
Our Mission:
There is a need for a new kind of facilitator to assist with Nature re-engagement and reorientation. Green Eco-Chaplains are trained as Mediators & Educators to facilitate a sharing of literacy in Ecology, Earth Systems Science and nondual Ethics. The skills learned deepen our innate aesthetic faculty, as we explore ideas of how nondual awareness can assist our world in moving from dualistic activity toward nondual agency. This work is informed by engagement with ancient Greek philosophy, early and mediaeval theology, and modern deep ecology and eco-philosophy.
Our Vision:
Green Eco-Chaplains act as mediators between humans and nature, bringing training to the community to help individuals embrace a process of re-engagement with the natural world. Our Green Chaplains also act as educators by making short courses available in community and online settings. These courses are designed to increase community literacy in topics dealing with Earth, Ecology and nondual awareness, and with values and ethics. We offer contemplative and aesthetic practices that enable a transformation of experience through attention, flow, and deepening awareness.
Objectives:
To train new Eco-Chaplains who will serve a unique function in the world. They will train in a nondual, ecospheric ecology, and in techniques for Mediation, Education and Contemplation.
To contribute to bringing human consciousness closer toward the nondual by offering mediation with nature in communities, and by offering easy availability of short courses in ecology, eco-philosophy, and ethics to those who are curious about these areas, and about how they can help bring positive change.
To promote a peaceful relationship between humankind and non-human species based on respect for life and the aspiration for all species to be able to live in their own ecosystems.
About Julie
Julie is a dedicated educator and philosopher who has researched a fresh approach to bringing authentic change between humans and Nature. She offers a set of courses to assist in re-engagement with the natural world and encourage a renewed sense of pastoral care that helps people and communities to regain their innate awareness of Nature.
With an academic background that covers Arts, Literature, Education, History and Geology, Mediaeval Background and a PhD each in English Literature and Eco-Philosophy, a career in secondary and tertiary education, and accomplishments in academic authoring, speaking, and curriculum design, Julie is well-qualified to offer her unique courses. She is ordained and her Eco-Chaplaincy course is grounded in her doctoral studies in Western philosophy, theology, and eco-philosophy. It is designed to train new Eco-Chaplains to take on the roles of mediators and educators, in preparation for sharing a range of eco-literacy and ecological awareness short courses in communities, worldwide.
In her spare time, Julie loves writing, reading, star-gazing, and bushwalking, enjoys wildflowers in nature, and adores a really good cappuccino (named after a branch of Franciscan friars)!
