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Co-creating Earth-based Community - an Interview with Gary Reiss

A little film to go with a wonderful seminar with Gary Reiss in the early days of the Apricot Centre in Manningtree Essex.


This seminar is with Gary Reiss LCSW PhD who lives in Oregon and teaches worldwide as a Certified Process Oriented Psychology Trainer. An experienced conflict facilitator working in the Middle East; he has also helped develop Process oriented family therapy and coma work. Using earth-based awareness and process oriented skills to facilitate conflict, power, rank and diversity for the wellbeing and resilience of groups and communities in Transition Process Work (Dr Arnold Mindell) now emphasises Earth-based awareness work for working on social and ecological issues. Helping us to move beyond traditional polarisations, bringing us in touch with a place of Deep Democracy from which complex difficulties can be addressed, and bringing together the outerwork of social activism with the innerwork of psychology and meditation, grounding it in our connection with the sentient earth. how to be at home within ourselves while finding home and community on the earth.