Process Pop-Up: Eco-Psychology, Plant Medicine, and the Sacred Earth
In this exploratory webinar, author, educator and aspiring therapist Travis Cox will invite participants into the project that he and his colleagues are calling “Ecopsychedelics” which is a portmanteau of the words “ecopsychology” and “psychedelics”. Travis will first introduce the discipline of ecopsychology and then give some background into the particulars of the “ecopsychedelic” project, including some insights he gained from teaching the first ever class on Ecopsychedelics last spring.
During the webinar, Travis will invite a dialogue into what he feels is one of the most important aspects of the psychedelic experience in general, which is certainly central to his personal conception of ecopsychedelics: the implicit or explicit invocation of worldviews. For Travis, this invocation is two-fold: first is the fact that, for many if not most people, the scientific materialist paradigm can come into question during a psychedelic experience; second is the open-question as to whether or not the “psychedelic experience” itself has a worldview.
This collaborative inquiry will eventually lead to a discussion of process thought, especially as it relates to a more “modern” understanding of animism. This workshop is for those who are interested in the intersections of ecopsychology, plant medicines, and ecospirituality.
“I feel that our materialist-technological society, with its fragmented world-view, has largely lost its way, and can ill afford to ignore any potential aids to great knowledge of the human mind … The individual seeks a vision to understand his or her place, or destiny, as a member of the community. The knowledge derived from expanded states of consciousness has been, can be, and needs to be applied to the solution of the staggering problems that confront our species.“
Ralph Metzner, psychologist and psychedelic researcher with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the 1960s
About the Speaker
Travis Cox
Travis Cox, PhD is Associate Professor in the Masters in Ecopsychology and Bachelors of Environmental Studies at Naropa University. He has been studying consciousness throughout his career in academia, both as a student and as faculty. His interests in psychedelics are at the intersection of activism, philosophy, sustainability, and ecopsychology. He presented on psychedelics and sustainability at the 2019 AASHE conference, helped organize the “Can Exceptional Experience Save the World?” conference at the Claremont School of Theology in 2019, was a part of the “Philosophy and Psychedelics” conference at the University of Exeter in April of 2021, co-taught the Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) course at Naropa, led nature connection sessions for Naropa’s PAT Certificate, co-facilitated a workshop on “Ecopsychedelics” at the 2023 MAPS conference in Denver, taught a 3-credit course in “Ecopsychedelics” in spring 2025 and worked with a faculty committee in the summer of 2025 to propose a new BA major in Psychedelic Studies at Naropa.
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