Courses for Human Relations Practitioners
Developing an ecological sensibility in organisations, education, & the wider psychological professions
Becoming an Ecological Practitioner
On this page you will find innovative new programmes, building on broad ecological philosophy and incorporating contemporary ecological thinking and approaches to practice.
This is work that is urgently needed if our human relationship with the earth is to radically change. The courses here are designed to support the development of an ecological mind (Marshall 2020), whereby human relations practices affect an ontological stretch into an ecocentric frame.
An Introduction to Becoming Ecological
Becoming Ecological is an approach to being in relationship with the world, designed with the earth in mind, for both personal and professional practice. This course offers an immersive introduction to the unique ecological methodology developed by Hayley Marshall and Giles Barrow over the past five years.
Participants will explore how practices designed to build embedded relationship with nature, landscape, and the heritage of people and place, can support potent agency into personal and professional practices.
We see this programme being at the growing edge in terms of integrating timely, earth-spirit based themes into the life and work of us as western people. Whether it’s with a view to healing, building connection to natural agency, promoting holistic development through learning, or offering community development, this programme will engage the practitioner with the outdoor world as classroom, therapy space, office, or perhaps something quite new entirely.
This introductory course is designed for anyone who is interested in exploring their relationship with the beyond-human realms, setting their sights on what will come next from a personal and collective perspective.
at Mill House Farm, Suffolk
Fee £320 payable in instalments if needed
Places are limited to 20
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Becoming Ecological
A Seasonal Series of Workshops
2025 - 26
Mill House Farm Suffolk
Facilitated by Hayley Marshall and Giles Barrow
A programme of four standalone 3-day workshops tracking the seasons aimed at human relations practitioners seeking to develop their work with clients across all fields of application and theoretical modalities. The purpose of the programme is to deepen personal and collective ecological conversations, thereby building confidence for working within the ecological domain. The workshops will follow the general direction of our previous year long groups but this time participants will be able to book individual workshops instead of committing to the whole year. We will be based at Mill House Farm, Suffolk and venture out into other varied terrain (including ancient wood land, coastal and urban spaces). We aim to work exclusively outdoors listening to and incorporating the wisdom of our more-than-human kin.
In each of the 4 workshops we will focus on how to listen convivially, opening and holding the vital space, then how to help our 'clients' work with the ensuing ecological process.
Each workshop will focus on an important practice theme
• Workshop 1 - Receiving – the ecological body
• Workshop 2 - Holding – tending the hygiene of the work
• Workshop 3 - Story & Symbol– a taste of the mythic realm
• Workshop 4 - Ecological Process – entering the flow
We aim to unpack these topics in nuanced detail and offer skills for personal and professional practice. The format will involve extensive outdoor immersion linked with fireside teachings, and discussion.
Workshop 1 Monday 1st - Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Workshop 2 Wednesday 17th - Friday 19th Dec 2025
Workshop 3 Wednesday 4th - Friday 6th March 2026
Workshop 4 Wednesday 3rd - Friday 5th June 2026
£320
£1,125 if all four workshops booked together
Individual workshops for 2025-26 can be booked or of course, the whole series!
