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Breakout sessions included the following presentations.  See the full conference program for a full description of each session. 

FRIDAY:

Concurrent Session A (10:45 to 11:45 am)

1.  Moving Toward Sustainable Values: Adapting and Applying the Transtheoretical Model (Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D.)

2.  Experiencing an Ecological Sense of Self: A Liberation Movement (John Swanson, Ph.D., LPC)

3.  Demystifying and Correcting the  Psychological Roots of Environmental Neglect (Margaret Topf, Ph.D.)

4.  The Biological Bases of Biophilic Design and Green Building Benefits (James A. Wise, Ph.D.)

5.  Neuroscience, Self-regulation and Our Environment: A Case for the Contemplative Sciences (Keith Lowenstein, M.D.)

6.  Public Health and Therapy with Nature in Mind (Ambra Burls)

7.  Mind-Body Ecology: How Ecopsychology Affects Our Wholistic Well-Being (Kurt Beil, ND, MSOM, Lac)

Concurrent Session B (2:15 to 3:15 pm)

1.  Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy:  Transformative Practices Toward A Sustainable Future (Deborah McNamara, MA and Dreya Mancini, MA)

2.  Attending to what's "out there": Toward changing assumptions (Madelon Y. Bolling, Ph.D.)

3.  Sustainability Through Conservation Psychology:  Examples of Research and Practice (Elise L. Amel, Ph.D.)

4.  Nature, Culture, and Abnormal Appetites (Lorraine M. Fish, Ph.D.)

5.  Isolation and Authenticity in Adolescence:  Wilderness Therapy Touching the Void? (Keith C. Russell, Ph.D.)

6.  Art –To Earth Quest (Susan Loonsk, MFA, MA, MATP-EP, ATR-BC)

7.  Developing an Ethical Relationship with the Natural World (Dick Roy and Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D.)

Concurrent Session C (3:30 to 5:00 pm)

1.  Critical Psychology, Art, and the Environment:
a.  Towards a Critical Environmental Psychology (Renee Lertzman)

b.  Shall we Gather at the River: A Sustainable Memorial (Phoenix Raine, MA)

c.  Following the River; ecopsychology and the environmental novel (Lisa Lynch, Ph.D.)

2.   Stories, Myths, and the Human-Nature Relationship:
a.  Echo’s Logos: Nature, Myths, and the Cultural Psychology of Belonging (Dina Hartzell, Ph.D.)

b.  Renewing the Imagery of Inner Life: Bridging Ecology and Psychology (Lori Pye, Ph.D.)

3.  Education, Environmental Issues, and Psychology:
a.  Teaching Psychology as a Sustainability Science (Sue Koger, Ph.D. and Jackie Lanum, Ph.D.)

b.  Measuring and Influencing Community College Students’ Attitudes About Sustainability Issue (Robert D. Riesenberg, MSW, MS, Ph.D.)

4.  The Human-Nature Relationship: Toxics, Technology, and Biophilia:
a.  In the Orchard: Farm Worker Children’s Moral and
Environmental Reasoning (Rachel L. Severson)

b.  Nature Goes Digital – Does it Matter? (Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Ph.D., Jolina H. Ruckert, & Rachel L. Severson)

c.  Biophilia – Past Conundrums and New Directions (Jolina Ruckert and Peter H. Kahn, Jr, Ph.D.)

5.  Green Spaces and Children:
a.  Parenting and the Benefits of Green Spaces for Children (Tara Herrick, MS)

b.  Tending to Internal Green Spaces: Helping Boys Reclaim Trampled Aspects of the Self (Peter Mortola, Ph.D.)

6.  Ecological Orientation of Early Childhood Development: Inspiring Change Toward a Sustainable Future (Lee Ann Woolery, Ph.D.)

7.  Understanding Disconnection in Activist Communities (Karen Hixson, M.Ed., CADCI and Jenna Goldin, B.A.)

SATURDAY:

Concurrent Session D (10:15 to 11:15 am)

1.  Agency and Communion in Ethical, Effective Activism for Positive Change (Laurie Hollis-Walker, MA)

2.  Unearthing Ecological Wisdom:  An Eco-Contemplative Approach to Sustainability (Chris Crotty, MA)

3.  The Ecological Self in Process (Steven Fenwick, Ph.D.)

4.  The Case for Place in the Healing Space (Kathleen Hoyt, Ph.D. and Christopher Wolsko, Ph.D.)

5.  The Psychology of Ecology (John Scull, Ph.D.)

6.  Human and Environmental Benefits of Integrating Natural Change into Interior Spaces (Kevin Nute, Ph.D.)

7.  Sustainability Starts With YourSelf (Jennifer Hromyk, MA)

8.  Another World is Possible Here: Inhabiting all our Relations (J. Brush and Tod Sloan, Ph.D.)

9.  Assessing Your Ecological Footprint (Jeanne  Roy)

Concurrent Session E (1:45 to 3:45)

1.  Applied Ecopsychology:  Connecting and Counseling with Nature (John Scull, Ph.D.)

2.  Sustainable Self: Addressing Environmental Concerns in Mainstream Counseling Settings (Thomas Doherty, Psy.D.)

3.  Eco-Therapy: Nature-based Systems Therapy for the 21st Century (Lesley Osman)

4.  Embracing Our Grief for the World: Healing, Empowerment, Action (Pam Wood, MA, ATR and Lynn Fessenden, Ph.D.)

5.  Ecodance Seattle - Ecopsychology, Movement and the Body as Nature (Leif Tellmann, MA, ADTR, LMHC)

6.  Hope as an Intentional Act: Daily Practices that Support Hope (Jeanne and Dick Roy)

7.  Accompanying the Deep Sustainability Movement (Tod Sloan and J. Brush, moderators)

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