ABSTRACT
We have become increasingly divorced from our lived experience, and our environment. We learn more about the world through information devices than through actual lived experience of the world. As a result, many of us experience ongoing ‘techno stress’.
This chapter argues that it is the loss of our embodied relationship to ourselves and our world that results in our failure to grasp the reality of what is happening to our natural environment. It calls for a phenomenological approach to all psychological explorations and a return to embodied knowing. It argues that all psychotherapy should be body-oriented if we are to come to our senses in a time of environmental breakdown.
In this light the chapter discusses the training needs of future therapists – the course curricula and training requirements necessary for environment-aware therapy.
