Published March 23, 2012 in Gatherings, the journal of the International Community for Ecopsychology:

Can the permaculture principles and practices of ecological design offer guidance not only for external processes like remediating damaged land and building ecovillages but also for the healing of both individual and collective psychological and social terrain? And what might nature-based permaculture thinking contribute to the healing of the sorely wounded human-nature relationship?

Santa Barbara psychotherapist/ecotherapist Linda Buzzell and John F. Kennedy University ecopsychology professor Dr. Craig Chalquist, co-editors of Sierra Club Books’ Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind — both graduates of the Permaculture Design Course — explore the possibilities through this very preliminary dialogue that will hopefully open a much wider conversation about whether — or even if — the ecologically-based principles of permaculture can address the remediation of devastated psychological and social ecosystems as well as abused and neglected places.