What is a Nature-Based perspective of Gender?

Gender Wheel 3 budding principles to grow a nature-based perspective of gender
Let's start at the root with 3 budding principles to grow a nature-based perspective of gender AND why it’s important.
A nature-based perspective brings ecology and biodiversity into the gender conversation and holds at the root an understanding that abundant body, gender, and relationship diversity documented across all realms of the plant, animal, and human world are a necessary and intrinsic part of what keeps a species and the planet strong and resilient. To put simply, diversity equals strength and health.

There is an unmistakable mindset shift that happens when you find yourself embodying these 3 principles on a deeper level. It’s one of the reasons why we call the first part of our Gender Wheel trainings: Reorientation.

When we have a nature-based perspective we move out of the realm of politics, finite definitions, and personal beliefs into the reality that gender diversity in particular is necessary for the health of humanity and the planet.

3 Budding Principles to Grow a Nature-based perspective of Gender

TO START... growth begins from the fertile ground of Nature’s universal themes: Diverse, Interconnected, Flow, Circles, Cycles, Fluidity, and more...

ROOTED IN NATURE'S THEMES... we then learn to see the truth of Nature...

#1 In Nature...THERE IS NO BINARY

Abundant body, gender, and relationship diversity exist across all realms of the plant, animal, and human world. Everything exists on a continuum.

#2 In Nature...INFINITE DIVERSITY IS NECESSARY FOR A SPECIES TO THRIVE

Body, gender, and relationship diversity are necessary to ensure a species’ evolutionary resilience and endurance. Diversity is strength.

#3 In Nature...NOTHING EXISTS IN ISOLATION

We can only begin to understand gender and what it means when we view everything together within the context of community and the natural world. Wholeness is health.

A NATURE-BASED PERSPECTIVE:

  • fosters greater embodiment
  • builds personal resilience
  • improves mental wellbeing
  • strengthens our connection to nature
  • encourages empathy and inclusion
  • liberates us from bullying rhetoric
The Gender Wheel approach and educational tool provide a comprehensive way to hold a nature-based perspective and make sense out of big concepts like infinite diversity and nature’s constant flow, as well as our unique place in all of it.
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