Ecotherapy Melbourne & Victoria

Are you feeling stress, overwhelm, or disconnection with all that is happening in the world right now? Do you feel a deep concern for the Earth, but struggle with where to place that emotion and what to do?

Our Ecotherapy offering is a community-centred approach for nature connection, emotional presence, and spirituality. This work is about courageously honouring our love and pain for what is happening in the world and actively responding in our lives with wisdom.

Join the Ecotherapy Workshops and Retreats for support, spirituality and community connection, to make a difference through ecological awareness, life-sustaining change and local action.

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We integrate mindfulness, compassion and ecopsychology with ancient earth-based tradition, wisdom of the human body, the body of community, and the body of the Earth. Building our wayfinding capacity—helping us reclaim our original consciousness awareness, honouring the inner compass, and reconnecting with an ecological self to take courageous and wise action in our lives.

The Heart of Our Ecotherapy Offering: The Path To Wholeness and Connection

Through circle gatherings, we aim to heal our relationship with the living Earth as our ancestor and kin. Weaving in Goddess religion and pagan wisdom from early western European culture with mindfulness that has it's roots in the East. Through our felt sense, imaginations, the work that reconnects, interbeing and creative ritual in circle community, we reclaim our deepest soul connection and learn to live and lead from this intelligence and emergent wisdom.

Community Wisdom & Connection

Holding the Pain for the World: Creating safe, communal container to fully acknowledge and articulate the grief, fear, and anger arising from the ecological crisis (The Great Unravelling). This radical acceptance transforms overwhelm into active hope and shared purpose.
Collective Joy: Engaging in group processes that enhance collective joy, creativity, and strength, fostering a sense of shared belonging, ethno-diversity, and cultivating the courage needed to support one another in taking wise action. We draw inspiration from traditions that honour the immanent divine, celebrating our fierce love for the living world.

Depth & the Ecological Self

Uncovering Patterns of Separation: Using Jungian Depth Psychology to uncover old, unconscious psychological patterns of separation—the internalised narrative that positions humans outside of nature. Engage with active imagination and creativity to work on healing our collective culture and more-than-human kin.
Reclaiming the Ecological Self: Reconnecting with your essential nature and sense-making, fostering a feeling of being aligned, whole, and a vital part of the natural world's vast, intelligent web of life. This connection inspires and resources you to take wise action in your community, work, and lifestyle.

Mindfulness & Embodied Presence

The Power of Being Present: Drawing on Mindfulness (like the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn) to cultivate insight, compassion, and awareness of body, mind, nature, and community. Rest deeply, restore and renew your energy in nature.
Somatic Grounding: Developing sustainable tools to regulate our nervous system and cultivate a steady, embodied presence amidst life's challenges, rooting deeply in the timeless intelligence of your body, community and the Earth and the awareness that flows through everything.

Sacred Circle & Creative Ritual

The Power of Creative Ritual: Drawing from the principles of Earth-Based Spirituality and Paganism, we engage in ritual, storytelling, and creative practice to move energy and honour life cycles. Ritual reconnects us to the sacred rhythms of the cosmos and the Earth.
Creating Sacred Space: Learning to intentionally define and hold space—both outdoors and within our communities—to deepen presence, intention, and collective power. This practice grounds us in the knowledge that the Earth itself is sacred and whole, and we are part of its renewal.

What is Ecotherapy?

Ecotherapy is applied Ecopsychology, an approach that recognises that our personal healing and the well-being of the natural world are fundamentally linked. It moves beyond the idea of using nature simply as a calming background; instead, it positions the Earth, with its inherent cycles of growth, change, and resilience, as an active participant in our healing and growth as human beings. By actively honouring the restoration and regenerative power of nature, we simultaneously activate and tap into collective healing, grounding us in a powerful sense of connection and wholeness.

How We Work: Integrating Nature and Insight and Wisdom

Our method is integrative and communal, combining Depth Psychology with the wisdom of mindfulness and reciprocal connection with the natural world, fostering a uniquely grounded and soulful process.

Ecotherapy & Reciprocal Relationship

Drawing from Ecopsychology and ecofeminist principles, we recognise that personal healing and nature's well-being are interconnected. We challenge the dominator worldview that historically severed our link to the Earth, viewing the planet instead as a reciprocal, living being. When we actively honour the restoration and regenerative power of the Earth, we simultaneously tap into and activate our own capacity for inner healing and wholeness. This includes circle work, walking, deep listening, and heart-based connection to the inherent divinity of nature. Whether it's rewilding, regenerative gardening, or sustainability projects, building a reciprocal relationship with nature and community offers a grounding and relational purpose that supports growth, survival, and renewal.

Depth Psychology: Uncovering the roots

We gently uncover and process unconscious patterns of separation, exploring the cultural roots of alienation—including the historical loss of connection to the feminine and Earth-honouring wisdom. The focus is on gaining insight into relational dynamics, processing the unresolved emotional pain of feeling isolated from the web of life, and exploring and expanding your personal and ecological narrative through creativity and social connection. Drawing inspiration from the Goddess Religion of Old Europe, we reclaim a worldview where the sacred is immanent, embodied, and cyclical. By understanding the roots of separation, you gain the power to break old cycles and choose a new, life-sustaining, eco-centric way of being in connection with the web of life.

Mindfulness and Embodiment

Mindfulness is the bridge between inner awareness and external experience. 1 We use practices to cultivate insight, compassion, and awareness of body, mind, nature, community, and spirit. This approach is key to learning how to truly understand your emotions, release tension, and restore inner calm, creativity, and a deeper connection by being open and fully present in the moment, allowing the light of awareness to flow through you and the world you are bringing into being. Embodiment here means fully honouring the body as a source of wisdom and joy, deeply connected to the Earth's cycles.

Group Offerings & Retreats

This work is best supported in the container of community. Join us for our upcoming group experiences in 2026:

Earth Circle Day Retreats: Local gatherings focused on holistic and mindfulness based circle work and The Work That Reconnects spiral (Gratitude, Honouring Our Pain, Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes, Going Forth) to build community wisdom and shared purpose in collaboration with The Eco Retreat, Arian Young and Marion Miller.
Breathe with the Birrarung (Riverfest): Experiential, local workshops in collaboration with Stonnington council focused on deeply sensing and connecting with the local waterway and its ecosystem to foster bioregional identity and stewardship.
Retreats in the Wilderness (2026): Immersive, multi-day retreats designed for profound disconnection from modern life and deep reconnection with the wild, fostering transformative personal, community and ecological insight.

Watch this space..

Currently Marion is offering Ecotherapy integrated into her coaching sessions, mindfulness for practitioners course and the mindful women's circle. We are taking a break from the retreat offerings to plan for the new year and our land-based project at The Eco Retreat.