Learn from the latest research into understanding our relationship with nature, and co-develop a practical approach to using it in your work on nature engagement, protection, and restoration.
Personalised Ecology is a model for better understanding the interactions between individual people and their ecological surroundings. It can help us move beyond an objective view of the natural world and instead to examine and explore the nuances in how those interactions inform our experiences and relationship with nature.
This free, 6 month participatory process will outline the latest research into Personalised Ecologies, and invite you to help shape how that research can be applied in practice to organisations and individuals who are working to increase our engagement with the natural world.
Masashi Soga & Kevin Gaston (2021)
Source: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
What is a Personalised Ecology?
It can be simply described as the direct (especially sensory) interactions that each of us has with nature.
You can read more about the idea in this academic paper from 2018.
A portrait photo of Peter Lefort, a man with short hair and a beard standing
Peter Lefort runs the Green Futures Network at the University of Exeter, helping apply the latest climate research in practice for government, business, community and more.
Peter is also a trained facilitator and climate coach, working with individuals and organisations to help them navigate the complex and interconnected patterns and systems we face when we work for social and environmental change. He is also the former CoChair of the international Transition Network.
"I don't know anyone else who can pick up on, and navigate between the various needs of individuals in a group in the way that he does." — Channa van Leijsen, Research Manager, Eden Project
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