PUBLICATIONS
Since the Center’s beginnings in 2000, educators, naturalists, therapists, parents and others with children in their care have gathered in listening circles to consider how we might recover the inner vision of a society in harmony with nature and explore in co-presence our unique roles and voices in creating a reciprocity of care between human beings and the natural world. In 2011, the Center published a collection of essays by 23 educators who have been part of this process. Beginning in 2015, we offered our Emergence Series of publications authored by those close to the Center who have carried the work forward in new and promising ways in written form. In the spirit of a communion of subjects, they have gifted their books to the Center. All proceeds from book sales will return to the Center in support of its work.
Center Books
The Place of Our Belonging: A Work for Children and Educators Mentored by Thomas Berry
Edited and Introduced by Peggy Whalen-Levitt
Greensboro, NC: CEINW, 2023
Only the Sacred: Transforming Education in the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Peggy Whalen-Levitt
Greensboro, NC: CEINW, 2011
All the Scattered Leaves of the Universe: Journey and Vision in Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Work of Thomas Berry
by Andrew Levitt
Greensboro, NC: CEINW, 2015
I Am You, You Are Me: The Interrelatedness of Self, Spirituality, and the Natural World in Childhood
by Colette Segalla
Greensboro, NC: CEINW, 2015
Opening Forgotten Sanctuaries: Recognizing Education as Sacred Encounter
by Clay Lerner
Greensboro, NC: CEINW, 2015
Chrysalis
The first issue of Chrysalis, the journal of the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World, was published in the Spring of 2004. All issues of Chrysalis are available for download in the Chrysalis Archive here.
Collections of Practices
The Center’s 2-year co-research program, The Inner Life of the Child in Nature: Presence and Practice, culminates with the publication of a Collection of Practices created by the participants during the second year of the program. These collections are archived and available for free download here.
Selected Readings
The work of the Center has been deeply informed by the thoughts of those in depth psychology, phenomenology, spiritual ecology, contemplative traditions, holistic science and many others seeking to breathe life into the world. A list of selected readings that have informed our work can be downloaded here.