ABSTRACT
This chapter explores several widening circles of self and existence, from ecological and existential perspectives, and demonstrates specific writing techniques for each part of the model. Eco-therapy, counseling in nature, and wilderness therapy are developing practices in which the therapeutic encounter takes place outside. The chapter shows how, through writing, we bring environment into the therapeutic relationship, as distinct from taking the therapeutic relationship out into the environment. Existential therapists seek to understand their client's worldview, in order to make sense of the way in which the client navigates existence and identify areas that cause distress, dissatisfaction or dis-ease. Expressive writing, particularly prose writing, is an often overlooked part of the family of expressive arts therapies. Landscapes in literature provide another opportunity to bring about a therapeutic interaction. The therapeutic potential of expressive writing is deepened when we add a feedback write after each initial piece of writing.
