This website has been created to:

  • facilitate the exploration of the links between the psychological condition of human beings and our current ecological crises;
  • make destructive behaviour towards the natural environment redundant; and
  • work with individuals and groups to facilitate wellbeing by assisting them in enhancing their psychosocial, physio-emotional, and environmental sustainability.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This section of our homepage will provide you with information on our Learning for sustainable Living (LfSL) Programme and on issues relating to ecopsychology and sustainable living.

Visit lfsl.com.au to obtain detailed information on this e-learning and workshop programme!

A description of the 12 courses is provided on the front page of this Moodle operated website.

Log-in as a guest to get detailed information on the programme structure, the fees, the programme facilitators, and the Moodle e--learning environment.

The last topic of this introductory programme will allow you to study one of the subjects of this first course: Introduction to Social Ecology.

Pressing the Eco-Psychology button on the button bar above will take you to depth psychological and transpersonal perspectives of our ecological crises.

Pressing the SustLiving button will take you to a page dedicated to Learning for Sustainable Living

This secction of our homepage will provide you with information on our services in counselling, somatic psychotherapy, holistic bodywork, biodynamic massage (Boyesen Method), and psychosomatic medicine.

Pressing the Psychotherapy button on the button bar above will take you to information on bodyoriented psychotherapy and holistic bodywork (Boyesen Method).

The button Counselling will take you to a page that briefly describes what can be achieved through counselling.

Pressing the button PsychMed will take you to information on psychosomatic medicine, an approach to healing and change based on the identification of unconscious feelings and conflicts.

View Lisa's article The Efficiency of Identifying and Working with Projective Identification and Countertransference at www. goodtherapy.com.au: Lisa's Article

View Lisa's listing at www. goodtherapy.com.au: Listing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lisa Frese, Cert.Hol. Psych., BA, Member ASIA.
Lisa has been involved in personal growth work for over twenty years. A qualified nurse and teacher, she trained as a body-psychotherapist with the Boyesen Foundation in Europe. Lisa has been in private practice since 1989. Integrating Somatic Psychotherapy psychodynamic theories and practices, she is passionate about the integration of attuned touch within an introspective empathic relationship. For the last five years she has been a teacher in several psychotherapy training programmes.

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Professor Stuart B. Hill is Foundation Chair of Social Ecology at the University of Western Sydney.

Stuart has published over 350 papers and reports. His latest books (with Martin Mulligan) are Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action, (Cambridge UP, 2001) and (with Werner Sattmann-Frese) Learning for Sustainable Living: Psychology of Ecological Transformation (Lulu.Com, 2008).

Stuart has worked in agricultural and development projects in the West Indies, French West Africa, Indonesia, The Philippines, China, and the Seychelles, as well as in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Cedric Twyford, PhD.
Cedric completed his studies in the U.K. in environmental science and then did post-graduate studies in plant horticultural science and biotechnology. His work has covered developing bio-technical solutions in the field of agricultural crop modernisation and technology transfer as well as formal and hands-on training of staff, much of this overseas. Apart from a long-standing environmental interest he is particularly keen to see how society will face up and adapt to increasingly less environmental freedom in the future".

 

 

 

 

 

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Our book Psychology of Ecological Crises and Eco-Self Transformation (Sattmann-Frese & Hill, 2007) is now available under the title Learning for Sustainable Living: Psychology of Ecological Transfomation at Lulu.Com. An overview of the book and its 12 chapters is provided in a 5-page PDF document. Download this brochure here!

An A4 ringbound version of the book is available in Australia for AUS $ 15 plus postage. Details on this book are provided below.

New: Learning for Sustainable Living Programme

Study with an e-learning programme at lfsl.com.au

The previous Sustainable Living Courses have now been integrated into the new Learning for Sustainable Living (LfSL) Programme. In 12 one-day units participants in the programme will learn new skills on subjects such as: emotional and psychosocial sustainability; sustainability mapping; ecological psychology in environmental education; aspects of eco-psychotherapy; ecological perspectives of ADD and ADHD; ecological perspectives of cancer and earth cancer; person-planet unity and sustainable living;  and psychosomatic and environmental medicine.  

Press here to load a copy of the new five-page brochure. Press here to view the cover letter that I am currently sending to organisations involved in cultural, social, environmental, and organisational change to promote the programme.

 

Dr Werner Sattmann-Frese, Cert. Hol. Psych. MAppSc, PhD, Member Australian Somatic Integration Association (ASIA)
Werner studied conventional medicine and bodyoriented psychotherapy from 1977 to 1984. Since then he has been working as a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, and course facilitator. Werner also has a special interest in our psychosocial living conditions, in manifestations of physical illness, and in our current environmental crises. Besides working in private practice, he facilitates courses on emotional, psychosocial, and environmental sustainability throughout Australia and is a sessional lecturer and tutor at the University of Western Sydney. To view Werner's CV press here!



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Brochure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mapping process brochure

 

Press the photo on the left to open in a separate window a copy of the "Sustainability Mapping Brochure". Use this brochure to create a visual representation of the complex web of your relationships with people, organisations, and things, such as properties, and the like. Identify the areas in your life that lack balance between giving and taking and are thus not sustainable in the long-term.

 

 

 

Testing Questions Brochure

 

Press the photo on the left to open a copy of the "Sustainability Questions Brochure". The 26 questions with rating scales in this brochure will assist you in assessing your current ability to lead a psychosocially, physio-emotionally, and environmentally sustainable live. You could also contribute to my research on sustainable living by filling out a copy of the questionnaire and by mailing it to SLSE, PO Box 4051, Wagstaffe, NSW 2257, Australia. Many thanks!!!

 

 

 

 

Articles and Papers

Titles pdf files

Psychosomatic Medicine Course Brochure

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Psychosomatic Med. Course Curriculum psysomed.pdf
Psychosomatic Aspects of Allergies Psych_Allergies.pdf
Psychosomatic Aspects of AIDS Psych_AIDS.pdf
Psychosomatic Aspects of Cancer Psych_Cancer.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Useful Links:

Information on Social Ecology:

www.zulenet.com/see/chair.html

www.pnc.com.au/~lfell/socecol.html

www.dest.gov.au/tenfields/arts/9uwsh.html

Information on Psychotherapy:

www.somaticassociation.org.au/

www.somaticpsych.org.au/index.htm

www.somatics.com.au/

www.psychotherapy.com.au/referral/associations.asp

www.goodtherapy.com.au/ flex/professional_associations/301/1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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