Embodiment of Other-Than-Human Beings in Adult Environmental Education: Transforming Relationships in Times of Climate Crisis

Through an arts-based workshop series, participants and I explored the relational impact of incorporating embodiment, understood as temporarily inhabiting other-than-human perspectives, into Adult Environmental Education spaces.This research is rooted in the belief that the climate crisis is a crisis of a specific way of relating to other-than-human life-one that was shaped and spread through colonialism and continues to manifest in how many humans understand and enact their place in the world.The experiences and reflections that emerged from the workshops suggest that embodiment can create cracks in these modern-colonial ways of relating to other beings by allowing us to see and feel the injustice in these relationships, by cultivating empathy and compassion, and by challenging dominant stories of separation, objectification, and domination.This practice represents an opportunity to begin to let go of ways of relating that are no longer serving us and create cracks from which ways otherwise can emerge.