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Zhiwa Woodbury

Zhiwa Woodbury is a panpsychologist (panpsychism-informed psychology), visionary and long time advocate for all things natural and wild. He studied Thermodynamics, Science/Math and Communications at Southern Illinois University before obtaining a doctorate in Natural Law (1983). After a successful career advocating for wildlife and wild places, he returned to school and obtained an M.A. in East/West Psychology, with an emphasis on quantum eco-psychology and spiritual counseling, and also trained and served at world-renowned Zen Hospice in San Francisco. Zhiwa is a vajrayana practitioner who follows Hua-Yen philosophy and practices Kalacakra tantrayana. He is the author of Climate Sense ~ Changing the Way We Think & Feel About Our Climate in Crisis, and two influential lead articles in the peer reviewed journal Ecopsychology: "Climate Crisis & the Cosmic Bomb: Is the American Dream an Expression of Cultural Trauma" (Dec. 2015) and "Climate Trauma: Towards a New Taxonomy of Trauma" (March 2019).
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An Ethic of Shared Responsibility

In the knowing that all life is woven into an interdependent web, in the knowing of real and immediate dangers abound, how might our ethics guide us in response?

A Relational Approach to Building Solidarity

What can happen when we avail ourselves to the full implications of interdependence? How can we clear the way for this challenging and yet world-shaping insight?