Drinking from the Wellspring: An Embodied Inquiry at the Confluence of Ecological Identity, Water, and Wellbeing
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Issue Date
2024
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Farr, Rachel
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School of environment and sustainability
Abstract
This autophenomenographic study was formed at the confluence of diverse sources: existing literature and poetry, and subjective being-in-the-world experiences of sitting, listening, and learning from the wisdom of Mission Creek, “speaking”. I explored how this kind of embodied inquiry might shape me as a burgeoning environmental educator and communicator synthesizing these knowledge streams to create my own new wellness narrative larger than any one source could convey. As I gathered ‘warm’ subjective data from my mind-body, I recognized the implications of myself in this research as a concomitant cell within the body of the Earth. Delving into theories and insights gleaned from studying water intelligence, exploring my own ecological identity in relationship to river, and experiencing nature-as-medicine through place-responsive sitting practice at the river, I explore the ebbs and flows of these relationships with (and for) the world, toward a greater understanding of how wellbeing might be expressed and lived.
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2024