Published: March 2025

Keywords:
Ecopsychotherapy, ecosystemic, indigenous people, rite of passage, Nature, Great Mother, Meta-crisis, Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson, Nora Bateson.

Roger Duncan

Roger Duncan, a Systemic Psychotherapist and Systemic Supervisor and Author, working in the NHS and in private practice. His approach to Psychotherapy has been shaped by his background in Biology, training as a Waldorf teacher, and as a Vision Fast guide with The School of Lost Borders. Roger has been leading nature-based retreats and researching Eco Systemic approaches to nature and mental health for 30 years. He was the creator and director of the 2022 Confer Diploma ‘Eco-psychotherapy and the Emerging Adolescent Mind’ and the 2018 Confer Eco Psychotherapy webinar ‘Reclaiming our Indigenous Relationship with Nature, an introduction to the Systemic Integration of Nature into Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Practice’ His book ‘Nature in Mind’ was published by Routledge in 2018 and writes and lectures internationally.

Abstract

This talk will explore the emerging role of Eco Systemic Psychotherapy in making sense of our transforming world as we face the Metacrisis. This work is informed by systemic thinkers including Gregory, Mary Catherine and Nora Bateson, the indigenous, healing/ therapeutic wisdom and the practice of modern nature-based initiation into adulthood.

This video was shown at the 2024 Two-Day Conference of the Systemic Association of Northern Greece.

A Zoom discussion followed between Roger Duncan and the audience.