ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the concept of human wholeness as a key component of healthy human development, cultivated and nurtured through the natural environment. Ecopsychology has contributed greatly to the growing awareness of the implications of humans distancing themselves from nature from a psychological perspective. The chapter examines ways to deepen the human relationship with nature through integrating the expressive arts. It emphasizes on the unique opportunities for creative self-discovery and expression offered by nature contributing to human wholeness. Nature's role in the process of healthy development has been attributed to our human's biological, psychological and evolutionary-based design and is reflected in several theories. The natural environment, far removed from the personal and social stimuli encountered in daily life, offers us time and privacy to relax, contemplate and reflect on oneself and life. Wholeness is cultivated when we acknowledge, express and feel in relationship with the many aspects of being human, both internally and externally.
