It has been said so many times that a dream without a plan is like a car without wheels, and so many of us on this day are going to make so many resolutions, built on the vibes and motivation of the celebrations, as well as evaluation looking back at the year past and weContinue reading “New Year’s Resolution”
Yearly Archives: 2020
Dunes and Thoughts
It was back in 2015 when together with my colleagues we delivered in Jordan a training course on entrepreneurship, and we decided to make it outdoors, as our rationale was that nowadays you can find tutorials, videos and free materials all over the web concerning how to make a business plan or a marketing mix,Continue reading “Dunes and Thoughts”
Ecopsychology – Outerspection Healing
It was in 1990s when Professor Roszak first came up with the term ecopsychology, stating that environmentalist movement were mistaken in using in their communication emotions such as shame and guilt to motivate humans to active and do something about the environment; rather suggesting that deeply humanity is in a state of deep grief uponContinue reading “Ecopsychology – Outerspection Healing”
Time to Light the Fire Temple
Today’s commemoration is that Zarosht no-Diso, a most important celebration in zoroastrian faith, that is the remembrance of the prophet Zarathustra’s death (his name meaning Yellow Camel, a sacred animal back in the day) , where his life is recalled as well as his teachings, the community attends the Fire Temple rituals, and it isContinue reading “Time to Light the Fire Temple”
Merry Christmas
Wishing everyone a truly joyous Christmas Day, with all that it implies. First of all a celebration to all Christians who celebrate the birth and coming to this world of Jesus Christ, regardless if that is celebrated with the Julian or Gregorian calendars, the purpose remains the same, that of a God coming to liveContinue reading “Merry Christmas”
Here Comes the Sun
We got here and it is time to celebrate, Winter’s Solstice has arrived, likely the oldest surviving celebration humanity has known, as it is a time of hope and light amidst the coldest and darkest season of them all. This is a time to pat each other on the back and say “well done, youContinue reading “Here Comes the Sun”
Ecology: Balance and Harmony
Rescogita’s vision and mission aims at applying the ‘eco’ principle to each and everyone of our support services, which we have renamed as eco-capacity building, eco-coaching, eco-consulting and eco-training. Meaning a combination of the holistic, experiential and people centred methodologies we apply in each of our fields of expertise, inspired by Ecopsychology, by integrating theContinue reading “Ecology: Balance and Harmony”
Wisdom of the Lizard
I remember in spring 2016 I was going through a rough patch, a time of uncertainty regarding the future steps to take, and making sense of the past ones, having to face the fact that I was probably going through a mild depression and having to acknowledge that and be conscious of the life events,Continue reading “Wisdom of the Lizard”
Moving is Hope
Today is the International Migrants Day, and we at Rescogita feel that we should take a pause to understand this phenomena, which actually was our first nature at the very start of our civilisation when we lived in nomadic tribes. Rescogita is a company grounded on the principles of ecopsychology, with a vision and missionContinue reading “Moving is Hope”
What is Ecocoaching?
Is there any difference between standard coaching and eco-coaching? Until now we at Rescogita identified just one and if you stick with us to find out which it is. Coaching is generally considered a profession that aims at supporting individuals and group to accomplish their best desired future, formulate and reach the goals and assistContinue reading “What is Ecocoaching?”
That Rewarding Challenge
Rescogita is a company grounded on Ecopsychology, that means that our focus is ecology, in other words is the enhancement and restoration of human-human relations interconnectedness and that of human – nature as one process. Given our mission and vision, we are of course celebrating the International Mountains Day, a day dedicated to the beauty,Continue reading “That Rewarding Challenge”
A Festival of Lights
At Rescogita we build our vision on the principles of Ecopsychology, which means restoring human to human and human to nature relations. This also means to value culture, traditions and roots, as a common thread to all of humanity, born in the mists of time and with a purpose to celebrate community, life and connectednessContinue reading “A Festival of Lights”
Jeans Disgrace
Quite some years ago I was conducting a training in North Germany for social and youth workers. We were immersed in a quite lovely venue amidst the thick Northern forests, and although I did not tell anybody somehow they discovered it was my birthday and ended up being warmly rewarded with a keg of beerContinue reading “Jeans Disgrace”
Human Duties or Responsibilities?
In our human mentality everything is cause-effect related, therefore does having human rights imply also having human duties? Rescogita is grounded on the principles of ecopsychology, and that means our mission is the promotion and restoration of human-human and human-biosphere interconnectedness and healthy relations. Our answer to the question is above is, no, rights areContinue reading “Human Duties or Responsibilities?”
The Bodhi Tree
The Bodhi Tree is a sacred fig tree, in spiritual art it often assumes the shape a heart. Buddhists all over the world today celebrate Bodhi Day, which is the commemoration of when Siddhartha Gautama, as he sat under a Bodhi Tree attained enlightenment. A central and core moment of Buddhism and milestone for theContinue reading “The Bodhi Tree”
Saint Nick’s Day
6th of December for many children (and adults) around Europe and not only is a favourite. All are familiar with the smiling and jolly figure with a white beard. Rescogita focuses on ecopsychology, and despite caring and working towards healthy human-human and human-nature relations we are also very much involved in studying the roots fromContinue reading “Saint Nick’s Day”
Down to Earth
Today is World Soil Day, Rescogita as a company that grounds itself on ecopsychology and providing trainings, coaching, consulting and capacity building with a human and environmental ecological approach, celebrates this day as joyfully as we can, Because celebrating the soil, we are celebrating life-bringing in its main element, earth, which is synonymous with ourContinue reading “Down to Earth”
I Gift you my Competences and Time
Among us are those who gift their most expensive good available, their time, and dedicate it to their beliefs and values in a better value and to commitments that aim at economic and social development. Kudos to absolutely all of them, for living their values and finding meaning-making in their activities and endeavours while indeedContinue reading “I Gift you my Competences and Time”
Is it love?
This is one of the final frontiers of research, cultural, social, psychological, exploring that feeling called love. Even though Lao Tzu, thousands of years ago said “Love is not a feeling is a choice” and he might be closer to the answer than generations of neurologists, what brings us to make that choice. What areContinue reading “Is it love?”
A Unique Ability
Disability, a word which implies lacking an ability, not having something, physically, mentally or both. How and who determines that? In a modern, hyperconnected and rather scientifically advanced world with cures and cares available, does it still make sense for these attributions to still exist, have them determined by social and medical parameters in orderContinue reading “A Unique Ability”
Island’s Pathways
Back in my youth days I used to study in England, Portsmouth to be precise, and in mid autumn I found myself with very low motivation to study and even lower concentration to follow classes; you know that feeling when you are dragging your feet when on the way to uni and sitting down inContinue reading “Island’s Pathways”
Extending an Olive Branch
26th of November, World Olive Tree Day, a special day dedicated to a very special tree, we at Rescogita, as a company grounded on ecopsychology, can only honour this day and tree, a true friend to humanity since the mists of time. A tree with its previous olives and grey-green leafs became so close toContinue reading “Extending an Olive Branch”
Violence against women
On 25th November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and we at Rescogita would like to offer you the point of view of ecopsychology on this problem. What are the roots and origin of this violence? Referring to scholar Jared Diamond, we are looking at some 12.000 years ago (aContinue reading “Violence against women”
The Universal Child
Childhood is the phase of life where who we are, our purpose and mission into this world sets its root in order to guide us through adulthood. Yet how fast we dismiss that period of life, perhaps through rights of passage which relegate those experiences and learnings into a past both caged and locked. KeepingContinue reading “The Universal Child”
Do You Know How much you Love the Science of Sciences
Philosophy is the lighthouse that lead the ship of humanity into the bay that sparkled evolution and civilisation. It is a landmark where daily survival started to be more or less taken for granted, and in that safety humanity could stop, look around at the nature and society around, explore past and future, ask questions,Continue reading “Do You Know How much you Love the Science of Sciences”
The Endurance of Tolerance
The word Tolerance comes from Latin – Tolerantia – To endure Today’s world seems to have evolved beyond the word “tolerance”, new adjectives have taken its place with the intention to create more positive connotations. Acceptance is one of those words, for example, whereas tolerance is slowly becoming an archaic term for a time beyondContinue reading “The Endurance of Tolerance”
Peace and Development accomplished by Science
Science is a word that comes from Latin which means both knowledge and collective knowledge, upon hearing the word collective we understand that it is something that belongs to everybody and therefore should exist for the benefit of all, is that right? From the enlightenment until 1914 generally society had a positive outlook towards scienceContinue reading “Peace and Development accomplished by Science”
Warfare’s casualties beyond humanity
While hoping that every viewer and reader firmly condemns warfare and armed conflict, attention needs to be brought to a quite bad habit of ours; while many condemn the pollution and environmental harm brought by industry, agriculture and other side (or direct) effects that modern economy have on the biosphere, few mention the environmental damageContinue reading “Warfare’s casualties beyond humanity”
The Living Dead
Why do all cultures around the world celebrate death and have rituals in each of their faiths and beliefs to commemorate the trespassed? Christian, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Animists and more have in their tradition a specific time in the calendar for commemoration and acknowledgement of death, mostly (not all) placed between what we know asContinue reading “The Living Dead”