Honoring our Pain for the World & Deep Ecology with John Seed

Join a beautiful conversation with John Seed.

John has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earthing workshops around the world for 35 years. Find more about John at https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/john_seed

Some of the topics we explore:

Honoring Our Pain for the World
The philosophy of deep ecology
Experiential deep ecology workshops
The Work that Reconnects $ ceremonies that dispel the illusion of separation between humans and the more-than-human-world.
The success of direct actions in protecting Australian rainforests
Rainforest conservation

About John Seed

John Seed is founder of the Rainforest Information Centre. Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions that have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests.

He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earthing workshops around the world for 35 years. With Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Professor Arne Naess, he wrote "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings" (New Society Publishers) which has now been translated into 10 languages.

In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment. He is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and occasional Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute.

In 2003 he spearheaded the Rainforest Information Centre's endangered species campaign http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/spp/ and made the film "On The Brink" with David Attenborough, David Suzuki, Olivia Newton-John, and Jack Thompson.

In 2023 he is spearheading a campaign to prevent the extinction of koalas.

He continues to conduct experiential deep ecology workshops around Australia as well as online workshops.