Spirit in the Land, Spirit in Animals, Spirit in People
Dennis L. Merritt, Ph.D.
Near the end of my training at the Jung Institute in
Zurich, I had one of the most powerful and simple dreams I have
ever had. It was a single-image dream of a typical
upper Midwestern landscape.
There was a meadow with very green grass, flowers and possibly
alfalfa. The topography was gently rolling with trees on the horizon. Insects flew above the meadow. It was a beautiful sunny day with puffy
white clouds in a blue sky.
What was most remarkable about this simple scene was that
it shown with an inner light.
Every atom in the dream was alive.
Despite having seen some of the most beautiful scenery
in the world—California, the Grand Canyon, the Canadian Rockies,
Switzerland, etc., I have never seen anything as beautiful as
this simple meadow scene.
This is an example of what the Swiss psychiatrist Carl
Jung called a numinous dream—a dream with an inner light and a
sacred sense. I contend that no indigenous person has had a more sacred dream
of the land. Every
human is capable of experiencing this sense of the sacredness
about the land. Long ago Jung recognized this archetypal
need of a connection to, and love of, the land. E. O. Wilson calls this “biophilia”.
When one has such a dream, the challenge is to let it lead
one’s life and direct one’s conscious orientation.
To follow such a dream’s inspiration is to walk a path
with heart. Having grown up in Wisconsin, I knew the
state affected me deeply, but I had no sense of just how deeply
until this dream. I
began to look at all elements of the Upper Midwest more closely—its
soils, topography, flora and fauna, seasons, etc.
To deepen this process and help convey this sense of the
land to others, my wife and I set up a week long summer institute
in 1991 called Spirit in the Land, Spirit in Animals, Spirit in
People. The Institute
was so well received we ran a second one in 1992, followed by
a reduced version for the University of Wisconsin Extension in
1994. The talks I gave at the Institutes became
the genesis of the book I’m finishing, The Dairy Farmer’s
Guide to the Universe--Jung, Hermes and Ecopsychology. To convey
my sense of an interdisciplinary environmental education program,
I am reproducing the contents of three brochures announcing the
Institutes.
1991 Madison Summer Institute
Education for the 21st
Century
SPIRIT IN THE LAND, SPIRIT IN ANIMALS, SPIRIT
IN PEOPLE.
From the Director….
I grew up on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin where
I spent many hours of my free time wandering the hills and marshes
with my dog. A deep
connection was forged between the land and my psyche, much deeper
than I realized. After spending many years away from the
Midwest, working on a doctorate at Berkeley in the late 60’s in
Insect Pathology (microbial control of insects), then a Masters
Degree in Humanistic Psychology from Sonoma State College, California,
and finally training to become a Jungian Analyst in Zurich, Switzerland,
I was led by a series of powerful dreams to return to the land
I have felt so connected to. I also became involved in sweat-lodge,
vision quest and Sundance ceremonies of the Lakota Sioux of the
Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota that added a depth of relationship
to the environment I could not have imagined otherwise.
It is out of this background that I have put together a
series of speakers and workshops that embodies a unique, multidimensional
approach and experience of our relationship with the environment.
The didactic, Western scientific content of the program
will be put in perspective in such a way as to enhance, not distance
ourselves, from “all our relatives”: the four-leggeds, the standing
brothers (trees),etc. The aesthetics of our relationship to
nature will be experienced by hearing from artists, writers and
poets, deeply influenced by their ties to the land.
In many ways and forms the Native American experience will
permeate the program, including a guided tour of Madison’s fascinating
Effigy Mounds with their astronomical alignments and hearing tales
from a Winnebago Indian about the land and the animals of this
area. There will
be a strong emphasis on the intrapsychic dimension of our connection
to the environment as revealed by dreams, myths, synchronistic
events, shamanistic techniques to discover our spirit animals,
etc. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin will discuss
hard reality issues he faces in trying to preserve the environment
via effective legislative and land-use planning.
The entire program will be framed in a Jungian, symbolic,
archetypal perspective, yet the contributions of the varied and
talented presenters will offer perspectives and experiences beyond
this limited framework. New models for education will be explored
as this 1st Annual Summer Institute is an aspect of
a broader model being developed for the University, entitled Education
For The 21st Century.
We have the perfect environment for this program on the
beautiful 135 acres of St. Benedict Center overlooking the shores
of Lake Mendota to the East and rolling hillsides of trees and
farmland to the West. Please join us August 19-25, 1991, for this week long Madison
Summer Institute—Spirit in the Land, Spirit in Animals,
Spirit in People.
Dennis L. Merritt, Ph.D.
PROGRAM
Monday Aug.
19 Registration
1-2.00pm
THE SPIRIT IN NATURE AND JUNG’S CONCEPT OF THE SYMBOLIC
LIFE
DENNIS MERRITT Ph.D.
THE ICE AGE AND ITS IMPRINT ON OUR ENVIRONMENT
LEE CLAYTON Ph.D.
WOODLAND TRADITIONS
Artist’s slide show
TRUMAN LOWE MFA
Tuesday Aug.
20
AN ARCHETYPAL VIEW OF THE MIDWEST ENVIRONMENT
DENNIS MERRITT Ph. D.
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SOIL
Slide show, violin music and songs
FRANCIS HOLE Ph.D.
WALKING IN THE SPIRIT OF NATURE Nature walk
MARION MORAN
ZEN GARDENS; ART
BORN OF NATURE’S POETRY
Multimedia presentation, meditation
BRYAN WALTON
Wednesday Aug
21
MEETING MYSELF COMING ‘ROUND CORNERS
Nationally
acclaimed author
BEN LOGAN
SPIRIT, EROS AND THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF RELATIONSHIPS
Includes video clips from operas
JOHN HAULE Ph.D.
SEASONS OF THE SOUL--
ARCHETYPAL PATTERNS
IN WEATHER AND CLIMATE
DENNIS MERRITT Ph.D.
SHAMANIC IMAGES OF THE
RELATIONSHIP OF SPIRIT AND BODY
Slide show
JOHN HAULE Ph.D.
Thursday Aug. 22
TOUR: NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK Plants used
by Native Americans
Lunch at FRANK LLOYD
WRIGHT designed restaurant, Spring Green
TOUR: HILLSIDE
HOME SCHOOL—TALIESIN. Frank
Lloyd Wright’s
Architectural School and Grounds.
Tour Leader…BRYAN WALTON
TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION IN AN INTEGRATED ELEMENTARY
SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM
HERB MARTIN Ph.D.
Friday Aug. 23
ANIMAL FROLICS AND OTHER CHINESE EXCERCISES Exercise-T’ai Chi
DONNA SILVER
WINNEBAGO ANIMAL TALES AND MYTHS
KAREN MARTIN
FINDING YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL
Workshop– drumming
MYRON
ESHOWSKY M.S.
THE MENDOTA EFFIGY MOUND GROUP
Slide presentation
GARY MAIER M.D.
Saturday Aug. 24
Morning in Madison – State Street, Farmer’s Market, John
Muir Exhibit,
Woodland Indians Exhibit, Boating on the Lake, etc.
TOUR: EFFIGY MOUNDS Eagle, turtle, deer, etc.
And Frank Lloyd Wright Unitarian Church
Tour Leader…..GARY MAIER, M.D.
BANQUET – Address
AESTHETICS, LAND-USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Mayor of Madison
- PAUL SOGLIN LL.B.
Sunday Aug. 25
THE BLACK MADONNA--THE DARK FEMININE,
AN IMAGE FOR THE EARTH
FRED GUSTAFSON D.Min.
CLOSING CEREMONY 11.00 –11.30 am
HEDWIG WEILER M.S.N.,R.N.
PRESENTERS:
LEE CLAYTON, Ph.D.
Geologist with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural
History Survey. Special
interest in the glacial geology and history of the Ice Age in
the Midwest.
MYRON ESHOWSHY, M.S.
Psychotherapist in private practice in Madison
and teaching faculty member of Michael Harner’s Foundation for
Shamanic Studies. Has taught shamanism workshops across
the U.S. Much of
his current work involves the integration of ancient shamanic
methods with modern psychotherapeutic practice.
FRED GUSTAFSON, D. Min.
Graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich
and an ordained Lutheran minister.
Practices in Watertown, WI as both Jungian Analyst and
Pastoral Counselor. Contributing
author of Betwixt and Between
and author of The Black Madonna. Sundancer for
the last 4 years at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota under
the leadership of Medicine Man, Norbert Elmer Running.
JOHN HAULE, Ph.D.
Doctorate in Religious Studies from Temple University. Graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in
Zurich and practicing Jungian Analyst in Newton, Massachusetts. Faculty member and ex-President of the
New England Society of Jungian Analysts, where he has been on
the training board for a number of years.
Author of Divine Madness —Archetypes of Romantic
Love.
FRANCIS HOLE, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Departments of Geography and Soil Science. Author of Soils of Wisconsin, co-author of Soil
Genesis and Classification and Soil Landscape
Analysis. His main interest before and after retirement
is in the soul and the connection to the soil.
BEN LOGAN
Nationally acclaimed author of The Land
Remembers—The Story of a Farm and Its People.
Novelist, non-fiction writer, teacher
and writer/producer of films and Emmy award winning network television.
Born in Southwest Wisconsin, he has remained rooted in
that hill country.
TRUMAN LOWE, MFA
Wisconsin Winnebago and a UW-Madison Art Professor
specializing in environmental art.
Past director of the Native American Studies Program at
UW. Recipient of numerous awards. Has exhibited throughout the US, in embassies,
in Canada and the Palais de Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
His environmental sculptures are personal investigations
into the peoples and traditions of the Great Lakes and Plains.
GARY MAIER, M.D.
Head of Forensic Psychiatry at Mendota Mental
Health Institute, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department
of Psychiatry at UW-Madison and a national consultant on aggression
management. His longstanding interest in Native American
culture goes back to his childhood. Since being in Madison, he has developed a particular interest
in the mounds of this area.
HERB MARTIN, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in the Department of Teacher
Education at California State University, Sacramento. Has won awards for teaching excellence at Louisiana and California
State Universities. Specializes
in world cultural mythologies and their application to multicultural
education in elementary education. His cultural heritage as African-American and Cherokee provides
a more personal insight into these topics.
KAREN MARTIN
A Wisconsin Winnebago and graduate from UW-Madison
in Consumer Science and Financial Planning.
For several years Karen has been doing outreach programs
in Wisconsin public schools sharing her culture with children
through myths, tales, dance, music and art.
DENNIS MERRITT, Ph.D. [DIRECTOR]
Doctorate in Insect Pathology, UC-Berkeley. Graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in
Zurich and a Jungian Analyst and sandplay therapist in private
practice in Madison. A
contributing author in The Analytic Life,
“Jungian Psychology and Science—A Strained Relationship.”
MARION MORAN
Naturalist, previously associated with the UW
Arboretum and the UW Environmental Resource Unit.
She provides courses and environmental programs across
Wisconsin, with an emphasis on the interdependent relationship
of all living things.
DONNA SILVER
Has been practicing T’ai Chi Chuan since 1977. Has taught T’ai Chi and other forms of
Chi Kung exercises for nine years based at the T’ai Chi Center
in Madison.
PAUL SOGLIN, LL.B, Mayor of Madison
Graduate from UW Law School. A student activist when elected to the City Council in 1968.
Served as Mayor of Madison 1973-79.
Left office for a private law practice.
Elected Mayor in 1989 and re-elected for a second four-year
term in 1991.
BRYAN WALTON
Has traveled the world as a professional photographer. His focus has been on helping people of
different cultures achieve mutual understanding through art. He established a craft and training center
in Auroville, South India and was one of the founders of the International
Community at Global View, Spring Green, WI.
HEDWIG WEILER, M.S.N., R.N.
Has been a practitioner in health care, mental
health, healing and teaching for over 30 years.
In private practice at Midwestern Psychological Services,
she is founder and Director of the Psychosynthesis Center of Wisconsin.
LOCATION
ST. BENEDICT CENTER, WISCONSIN
Provides comfortable lodging in a pleasant rural
setting. Facilities
include an outdoor swimming pool, hiking trails, volleyball, badminton,
tennis, baseball and basketball.
The Center is located 15 minutes away from the
Dane County Regional Airport which is serviced by 6 major airlines.
1992 Madison Summer
Institute
Education for the 21st
Century
SPIRIT IN THE LAND, SPIRIT IN ANIMALS, SPIRIT IN PEOPLE
From the Director…
We hope to build on the success of last years Institute
as we continue to develop the themes of an integrative approach
to environmental education and an experience that incorporates
Jungian depth psychological and Native American perspectives. The contributions of science to our understanding and appreciation
of the world around us will be respected and placed in perspective. The spiritual dimensions of our relationships
to the plants, animals and the land will be explored by looking
at Christian, Buddhist, Native American and Jungian world views. It is necessary to examine how our conception of the human
psyche affects our relatedness to the surrounding organic and
“inorganic’ realms. It
is not enough to talk about the environment—we must also experience
being fully in the environment.
Music, dance, ritual, poetry and art are integral aspects
of relationship to our bodies, each other and the world—“we are
all related”—at many different levels. Personal experience and knowledge forms
the basis for consideration of new models for our educational
systems and avenues to pursue in the political arena.
These themes and ideas will take form during a week long
program in a beautiful glen near one of the oldest landforms on
the continent—the Baraboo Hills.
We will also be privileged this year to tour the land and
hear from a daughter of one of the giants of ecology—Aldo Leopold.
We received a grant to develop a program for satellite
teacher inservice education—“New Approaches to Environmental
Education K-12”. It will
air nationwide on October 7, 14, and 21, 1992. Three of the presenters from last year’s Institute, Prof. Francis
Hole, writer Ben Logan and Dr. Herb Martin will each present two
hour interactive programs via satellite TV…We have applied for
ECH credits (32.5 hours) for the 1992 Institute…A one day workshop
has also been developed incorporating the three talks I gave at
last years Institute.
Dennis L. Merritt, Ph.D.
PROGRAM
Monday June 22
Registration 1-2.00pm
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY—A JUNGIAN APPROACH
DENNIS MERRITT, Ph.D.
HO CHUNK (WINNEBAGO)
DANCES (Group participation)
JIM GREEN
THE HO CHUNK RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE ENVIRONMENT—PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
JIM GREEN
Tuesday June 23
PSYCHOLOGY, THEOLOGY AND DENDROLOGY (TREES)
LARRY COLLINS
NATURE SPIRITS AND THE HUMAN PSYCHE (Part I)
Includes video clips from operas
JOHN HAULE, Ph.D.
THE NATURAL AND HUMAN
HISTORY OF DEVIL’S LAKE (“SPIRIT LAKE”)
KEN LANGE
NATURE SPIRITS AND
THE HUMAN PSYCHE (Part II)
JOHN HAULE, Ph.D.
Wednesday June 24
THE OJIBWA CONCEPT OF THE FULLNESS OF
LIFE—PRACTICAL ASPECTS
LOUISE MAHDI
EARTH SCULPTURES Experiential LOUISE MAHDI
EVENING of meditation, poetry, music, drumming and yoga
Thursday June 25
FREEDOM OF THE SPIRIT IN RESPONSE TO
MOVEMENT, MUSIC AND COLOR
KAY ORTMANS
THE WORLD OF INSECTS—AND
OTHER ANIMALS
DENNIS MERRITT, Ph.D.
INDIAN EFFIGY MOUNDS AS EARTH WRITING
GARY MAIER, M.D.
THE MEDICINE WHEEL—THE
WHEEL OF LIFE, AS USED IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SETTING
HERB MARTIN, Ph.D.
SUMMER NIGHT WALK
MARION MORAN
Friday June 26
TOUR—THE INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION
TOUR—THE ALDO LEOPOLD FARM AND “SHACK”
THE FATE OF THE EARTH
NINA LEOPOLD BRADLEY
WALKING the Leopold farm trails
MARION MORAN
Saturday June 27
MATTER ENSOULDED—REFLECTIONS ON INDIAN COUNTRY
FRED GUSTAFSON, D.Min.
THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Secretary of State
DOUGLAS LAFOLLETTE
TIBETAN BUDDHISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT
GESHE SOPA
OUTING to the Gustafson Farm—Singing,
drumming, barbecue
Sunday June 28
MEDICINE SHIELD PRESENTATION (Group)
HERB MARTIN, Ph.D.
CLOSING CEREMONY
PRESENTERS:
NINA LEOPOLD BRADLEY
Daughter of Aldo Leopold. She and her husband are in charge of the research done on the
Leopold Reserve. She
continues her father’s attempt to restore the land.
LEE CLAYTON, Ph.D.
Geologist with The Wisconsin Geological and Natural
History Survey. Special
interest in the glacial geology and history of the Ice Age in
the Midwest.
LARRY COLLINS
Ordained Presbyterian minister. Dendrologist and lecturer at Grinnell College Summer School,
Iowa. Owner of the
Riverside Nursery and Arboretum in Mazomanie, Wisconsin.
JIM GREEN
Wisconsin Ho Chunk and member of the Bear Clan. Outreach in local schools, pow-wow dancer
and artist. In the
tradition of the Bear Clan of maintaining law and order, he is
training at the Madison Area Technical College to be a policeman.
FRED GUSTAFSON, D.Min.
Graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich
and an ordained Lutheran minister.
Practices in Watertown and Milwaukee, WI as both Jungian
Analyst and Pastoral Counselor.
Contributing author to Betwixt and Between and author of The Black Madonna.
Sundancer for the last 5 years at the Rosebud
Reservation in South Dakota under the leadership of Medicine Man,
Elmer Running.
JOHN HAULE, Ph.D.
Doctorate in Religious Studies from Temple University. Graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in
Zurich and practicing Jungian Analyst in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Faculty member and ex-President of the
New England Society of Jungian Analysts, where he has been on
the Training Board for a number of years. Author of Divine Madness—Archetypes of Romantic Love.
DOUGLAS LAFOLLETTE, Secretary of State
Gained a national reputation during post-1970
Earth Day for articulating our environmental population resource
crisis. Doctorate in Chemistry from Columbia University and was
Asst. Prof. at UW-Parkside. Founded Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade,
served in the State Senate and is currently Wisconsin Secretary
of State. Has worked
as Public Affairs Director for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Asst. Director of the Mid-American Solar
Energy Complex and national board member of Friends of the Earth. Member of 1990 National Earth Day organization
and author of The Survival Handbook: A Strategy for Saving Planet Earth.
KEN LANGE
Naturalist at Devil’s Lake State Park for 26
years. Author of several books and other publications
on the park and Sauk County.
Worked for the Smithsonian Institution and attended UW
and the University of Arizona.
LOUISE MAHDI
Graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Practicing Jungian Analyst in Illinois.
Founder of the Temogami Vision Quest Camps in Canada.
Editor of Betwixt and Between
and The Reality of the Psyche Series of Open Court Publishing Co. Producer of a film in progress of adolescent
dreams of nuclear holocaust, filmed in Russia, Japan, Europe and
USA.
GARY MAIER, M.D.
Head of Forensic Psychiatry at Mendota Mental
Health Institute, Clinical Asst. Prof. in the Dept. of Psychiatry
at UW-Madison and a National consultant on aggression management. His longstanding interest in Native American culture goes back
to his childhood. Since
being in Madison, he has developed a particular interest in the
mounds of this area.
HERB MARTIN, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Teacher Education
at California State University, Sacramento.
Has won awards for teaching excellence at Louisiana and
California State Universities.
Specializes in world cultural mythologies and their application
to multicultural education in elementary education.
His cultural heritage as African-American and Cherokee
provides a more personal insight into these topics.
DENNIS MERRITT, Ph.D. [DIRECTOR]
Doctorate in Insect Pathology, UC-Berkeley. Graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in
Zurich and a Jungian Analyst and sandplay therapist in private
practice in Madison. A
contributing author to The Analytic Life,
“Jungian Psychology and Science—A Strained Relationship”.
MARION MORAN
Environmental educator for 25 years. Naturalist, previously associated with
the UW Arboretum and UW Environmental Resources Unit. She provides courses and environmental programs across Wisconsin,
with an emphasis on the interdependent relationship of all living
things.
KAY ORTMANS
Founder-Director of Well Springs Foundation. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music,
the Dalcroze School of Eurhythmics, London, UK and the
Rudolph Steiner School in Germany. Taught at Teacher Training Colleges in
England, University of British Columbia, UC-Berkeley and San Francisco
State. Won Canadian National Radio Award for
her programs for children.
Received Holistic Health Achievement Award in 1983. Currently involved in the Well-Springs
Discovery House Pilot Project in Madison, WI.
GESHE SOPA
Tibetan Buddhist and spiritual teacher at Deer
Park Tibetan Center, Oregon, WI.
Chair of the Board of the Deer Park Corporation.
Born in Tsang province, Tibet and began his monastic training
at the age of nine. Formal
education from Sera-Je College, Tibet.
Professor in the Dept. of South Asian Studies, UW-Madison. Escaped across the mountains to India with the Dalai Lama in
1959 after the Chinese invasion.
Asked by the Dalai Lama in 1963 to accompany three lamas
to America. Awarded
a Fulbright to study in India and Tibet.
Author of The Wheel of Time and The Practice and Theory of Tibetan Buddhism
LOCATION
DURWARD’S GLEN, WISCONSIN
A unique place, a monastery in a canyon, provides
seclusion and natural beauty with its springs and flora that date
from the Ice Age. The log building is on the National Register
of Historic Buildings and new accommodation center provides comfortable
lodging close to the Wisconsin River and Devil’s Lake. The Glen in located one hour away from
the Dane County Regional Airport which is serviced by 6 major
airlines.
Thanks to the Van Waveren Foundation, New York
for a grant to help in funding and support of this years Institute.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EXTENSION PROGRAM
“SPIRIT IN THE LAND”
Because of the success of the week-long “Spirit in
the Land, Spirit in Animals, Spirit in People” programs described
above, my wife and I were invited to arrange a program for the
University of Wisconsin Extension Education.
We chose several presenters from the seminars and reduced
the program to two days. This meant we had to eliminate most of
the experiential dimensions of the program. My wife and associate director, Chris Merritt, arranged an
art exhibit to accompany the program with the theme “Spirit in
the Land”. The “early birds” were able to venture
out on the morning of the second day of the program to a buffalo
farm to see and learn about these magnificent animals. A tasty farmer’s breakfast was served atop a hay wagon that
included grilled buffalo meat.
The fifty people, mostly teachers, who attended the program
gave it one of the highest ratings ever for an extension program. What follows is the content of the brochure advertising the
program which will give readers a sense of my concept of interdisciplinary
environmental education.
Spirit in the Land:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental
Education
Monday, June 20, 1994
Tuesday, June 21, 1994
8:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
8:30 a.m.-4:15
p.m.
Wisconsin Center
702 Langdon Street
University of Wisconsin
Madison Campus
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From the Director…
The rapid rate
of environmental degradation challenges us to learn more about
environmental problems and cultivate new ways of relating to nature. This two-day workshop meets the challenge
in a holistic manner, integrating the dimensions of science, art,
music, depth psychology, politics, Native American perspectives
and storytelling. Experiencing
a variety of perspectives encourages participants to develop an
ecological way of using various disciplines and the arts to educate
themselves and others. The focus will be on approaches to teaching
and an awareness of educational resources that teachers can draw
upon to enrich both their personal lives and their school curricula.
The workshop
is designed for all teachers and community members—not only those
in the sciences and environmental education.
It is hoped that this affective dimension of teaching will
reach across subject area boundaries.
Participants will explore new ways of perceiving and relating
to the environment that provide the foundation for our attempts
to save it. They
will learn about the excellent resources of the Environmental
Awareness Center on the UW-Madison campus and the UW Arboretum’s
training program for teachers and students on Prairie Restoration
for Wisconsin Schools. Each
presenter embodies a different mode of environmental awareness
and will provide handouts, reading lists and suggestions for classroom
activities.
The Spirit
in the Land experience will be augmented by an art exhibit and
special video showings in the evening.
The Madison setting will serve as a wonderful locus for
“placing” this instruction.
In addition to its beautiful physical setting, Madison
was a center of Indian mound building and has the excellent resources
of the University of Wisconsin with its rich legacy of leadership
in the area of environmental concerns and education.
Dennis L. Merritt, Ph.D.
A two-day workshop
for
·
K-12 Classroom Teachers
·
Teachers of Psychology, Art,
Science, Music, Drama, Language Arts, and Social Studies
·
Curriculum/Learning Coordinators
·
TAG coordinators
·
All People Interested in Environmental
Education and Issues
Program
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Monday, June 20
8:30 a.m. Registration (Coffee and rolls)
9:00 Welcome
Linda Shriberg, program manager
UW-Madison
School of Education
9:15
New
Approaches to Environmental Education
Dennis Merritt
10:30 Break (Beverage
refills)
10:45 Mythical
Dimensions of Trees: Their
Impact on the Human
Psyche As Revealed by Dreams, Myths and Cultural Attitudes
Herb Schroeder
12:00
Lunch
(On your own)
1:00 p.m. Indian Effigy Mounds—Their Function As
Symbolic Earth
Writing, Astronomical Calendars and Nodal Points for
Connecting People to the Earth
Gary Maier
2:15
Break (Juice and
soda)
2:30
Visit to Environmental Awareness Center and Indian
Effigy
Mounds
Regional Design for Sustainability—A Vision For Sustainable
Natural and Urban Systems in the Upper Midwest
Phil Lewis
4:30
Dinner Break (On your own)
6:30
Art Exhibit and Video Showings
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