Terrapsychological Inquiry: Restorying Our Relationship with Nature, Place, and Planet

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Terrapsychological Inquiry is a qualitative research methodology seeking a form of inquiry that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world. Terrapsychology is a theory and practice approach that studies, from the standpoint of lived experience, how the world gets into the heart. Oceans and skies, trees and hills, rivers and soils, and even built things like houses, cities, ports, and planes: How do they show up for us inwardly? How do our moods, feelings, and dreams reflect what happens in the world? Terrapsychological Inquiry evolved over a decade of experimentation by graduate students, instructors, workshop leaders and presenters, and other embodied creatives to offer a truly Earth-honoring mode of story-based qualitative inquiry, one that changes all involved from passive spectators of the doings of the world into active, sensitive participants. Learn how to use this methodology of reenchantment in a variety of settings inside and outside academia, and by doing so reenter an animate world.　 Written in an engaging and accessible style, this introduction to a new research methodology will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental psychology, ecotherapy, and environment and sustainability studies more generally. Cover Half Title Endorsements Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Inquiry as Response to the Animate World References 1. What Is Terrapsychology? “My Name Is San Diego” Hearing the Soul of Place A Widening and Deepening Inquiry Ecocommunities Terrapsychology’s Ancestors and Allies Romanticism and Naturphilosophie Evolutions of Terrapsychology References 2. Philosophy of the Methodology Ontological Premises Structuralism Indigenous Epistemological Observations Commitments of Terrapsychology Sharing Flesh with the World Animism Reexamined References 3. Preparing for the Work What Kinds of Research Projects Are Suitable for TI? Comparison with Other Methodologies Formulating the Research Question Levels and Degrees of Topic Involvement Depth of Involvement Understanding Symbol, Dream, Archetype, and Myth References 4. Terrapsychological Inquiry in Practice Phase 1: Prepare for the work Phase 2: Investigate the Topic Phase 3: Coagulate the Results Managing Ecological Complexes Finishing the Practice Phase References 5. Analyzing the Data Data Analysis as Ritual Sorting Coding Codeweaving Thematic Analysis References 6. What the Findings Mean Making Sense of What Was Found Validity, Reliability, Generalizability Significance of the Findings References 7. Sharing the Results – and Onward! Structuring Your Writing Introduction Literature Review Method The Study Results Conclusion Storytelling Your Findings Communicating the Nonverbal After the Study References Glossary Appendix I: Common Research Obstacles Appendix II: Place Assessment Checklist Appendix III: Creating Heartsteads Appendix IV: Exploring Deep Ancestry Index