03. The body and place - with Dr. Adrian Harris

This episode eco-psychologist and counsellor Dr Adrian Harris joins Mark to discuss the power of place and the science of this.

Links to relevant sites:

Eco-therapy research:

http://www.adrianharris.org/ecotherapy/research.htm

Bodymind Place:

http://www.bodymindplace.org

Eco-psychology UK

https://www.ecopsychology.org.uk/

Review: 'The Body Knows Its Mind. The surprising power of the physical environment to influence how you think and feel'.

(Recommended book I mentioned in podcast - includes reference to the research literally thinking 'outside the box'):

http://www.embodiment.org.uk/beilock.htm

A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain (good introduction to Lakoff and Johnson, whose work I mentioned in podcast):

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-brief-guide-to-embodied-cognition-why-you-are-not-your-brain/

Embodied Situated Cognition (more academic notes on Lakoff and Johnson, Clark etc. all mentioned in Pod cast):

http://www.embodiment.org.uk/topics/esc.htm

Richard Louv - 'Last Child in the Woods':

http://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/

I'm not sure if you think it's relevant, but this is my latest site:

http://mindfulnessinnature.uk/