Bringing Nature In

from Co.Exist

By Tiffany A. Dedeaux 

If you cannot get outside to recharge during your workday try finding a way to bring nature in.  One company is doing that with video in windowless cubicles.  The idea is to fool your eye, lift your mood, help regulate your body clock, as well as provide “the same kind of physiological response as is triggered by ‘real’ nature.”

However you are able to bring nature into your work environment I still encourage you to get out into the real thing when you can because the idea with ecopsychology is about nurturing your relationship with the nature because the health of one feeds the other.

How is nature incorporated where you work?  Does the illusion of nature make you want to experience the real thing?

References

Sky Factory Brings Nature into the Drabbest Windowless Cubicles

Bibliography

Kahn, J. P., Severson, R. L., & Rockert, J. H. (2009). The human relation with nature and technological nature. Association for Psychological Science , 18 (1), 37-42.

Campbell, J., & Moyers, B. D. (1988). The power of myth. (B. S. Flowers, Ed.) Anchor Books.

Rooted in Water: The Importance of Story to Ecopsychology and the Beginning of a Practice in Narrative Ecopsychology

About Tiffany A. Dedeaux

Tiffany is an ICF Career Coach and a cross-pollinator of ideas with a background in broadcast journalism, social and ecopsychology, and coaching. Tiffany’s nearly two decades of experience has helped her to identify the power of story in connecting us to each other as well as to our environment. A believer in the power of reflection, practical application, and celebrating victories, Tiffany understands that the more we all live our dream, the more we can model it for future generations.
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