The Self in Process
This essay explores the sense of self as an ecological orientation that emerges through the body’s relationship with environment, rather than as something constructed through narrative alone.
Natural Development: A Way of Seeing
This essay explores development as an ecological process shaped by environment, relationship, and time. It considers how behavior reflects a child’s interaction with their surroundings and how shifts in adult perception can support development without pathologizing it.
Learning to See Over Time
This essay explores how development becomes visible over time through sustained attention and lived experience. It considers how environment, continuity of place, and ongoing observation allow patterns to emerge and the unfolding of a life to be recognized.
Why Developmental Paths Matter
This essay explores how developmental paths become visible through sustained attention during periods of change and uncertainty. It considers how cycles of growth, rest, and reorganization unfold across a life, and how orientation allows people to recognize the phase they are living within.
On Regulation and the Work Beneath It
This essay examines what makes regulation possible. It suggests that regulation is not only a psychological skill, but an ecological process supported by rhythm, sensory experience, and sustained relationship with environment.
Body, Balance, and the Academic Mind
This essay explores how environment organizes what we recognize as a child’s capacity. Through examples from outdoor and physical settings, it shows how attention, persistence, and coherence often emerge under different conditions rather than appearing or disappearing within the child.
Where Orientation Begins
This essay explores orientation as a foundational need during periods of change. It considers how language and environment work together to help people recognize where they are within their experience, allowing development to continue even when resolution is not yet possible.
Where Change Begins
This essay explores change as something we often find ourselves already inside rather than initiate. It considers how transformation unfolds through relational and ecological conditions, and how recognizing the phase of change already underway can support orientation and development.
Beginning with Experience: Attraction, Attention, and Articulation
This essay explores how people are first drawn to ecopsychology through lived experience rather than theory. It traces how attraction, attention, and articulation make moments of well-being in relationship with place visible, remembered, and integrated over time.