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Ecology of Love

Experience the newly revitalized Ecology of Love course, now enriched with immersive visual and textural elements for a truly holistic and embodied learning journey.

When we rediscover ecology as a vibrant love story, we can unlearn the violent habits of our civilisation, join this course and explore the ecology of love with biophilosopher, writer, and marine biologist Dr Andreas Weber.

Facilitated by Dr Andreas Weber

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Course modules

Module 1

A Cosmos of Mutual Attraction

From birth, humans are naturally curious, drawn to explore and connect. This attraction extends to all matter, like hydrogen and oxygen forming life, and the Earth’s relationship with the Moon. Life is interconnected, revealing a loving force throughout the universe.

Module 2

Erotic Entanglements: Living through Eros & Touch

We feel attraction through our bodies, drawn to connect with others. Western culture's rational view ignores this erotic connection. Eros, a universal force of life, goes beyond sexuality and is embodied in ecosystems, where life feeds life.

Module 3

Romantic Mythologies: Learning to Love Again

True bliss comes from being ourselves while allowing others to do the same. This contrasts with Western views of love, which often leave people empty. True love is an ongoing, mutual practice rooted in compassion and ecological love, giving and receiving life.

Module 4

Queering Ecology: Erotic Transformation & Identity

Eros is the desire for change and self-transformation through relationships. Identity is constantly unfolding, shaped by connections. Every body, made of symbiotic relationships, evolves. Life is about embracing growth and change through deep, relational connections.

Module 5

Death: Becoming Edible as an Act of Love

Eros involves transformation, requiring acceptance of death as part of life’s flow. Death isn’t violence but a necessity for life to continue, as we shed our form and give life to others. Life and death are intertwined, and to live fully, we must become edible.

Module 6

Towards an Ecology of Love

Life is erotic because it desires connection and transformation through others. The cosmos is filled with this longing to relate, and matter is its vehicle. Through the erotic, we experience a pulsating, interconnected universe, where our aliveness mirrors the core energy of reality.

Course information

Ecosystems are love stories. Our most profound ways to relate and to feel, to exchange and to be touched, are ecological forms of gifting life, of loving. When we rediscover ecology as a vibrant love story, we can unlearn the violent habits of our civilisation. Over six weeks we’ll explore this story with biophilosopher, writer, and marine biologist Dr Andreas Weber, diving deep into a world of mutual belonging.

Andreas will unravel separatist myths and reweave the beauty of biology back into the fabric of ecological wisdom, inquiring into a diverse ecosystem of themes such as erotic ecology, animism, queer ecology, death, enlivenment and more. Supported by a background in marine biology, cultural studies and philosophy, Andreas will help us integrate science, mysticism and environmental thinking so that we can perceive the world anew through an ‘ecology of love’, an ecology which understands systems of living relationships as bearing both the practical and spiritual principles of a living cosmos.

Course Includes

6 Modules

12 Sessions

1 Teacher

Curated readings, resources and embodied practices

Community discussion area

Video and audio available

Teachers

Dr Andreas Weber

Dr. Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher, nature writer, and mystic. He focuses on a re-evaluation of our understanding of the living.

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What our students say

This course really helped me redefine what love is. Or maybe allowed me new ways of articulation when it comes to love. I attended the course while pregnant so most themes really spoke to me. I was giving of myself to create the other. Parts of me (for instance, the mother of one) were dying to allow others to be born. Now, with a newborn and a child, I sometimes listen to the audio recordings of the classes as I go about my days. Hannah and Andreas managed to deliver this beautiful piece of art, a philosophy that's even closer to my heart as it weaves mysticism across many disciplines - it felt accessible and, that, I really appreciated.

by Sara El-Sayeh

Learning Outcomes

Develop your understanding of the role of love, eros and death within ecology
Better understand the role of matter within a cosmology of desire
Widen your perspective regarding the extent of relational entanglements within the world
Expand your notion of the ‘other’ by exploring its relation to self and world
Gather knowledge, tools and practices for deepening a multitude of relationships in your own life
Broaden your knowledge of useful terms and concepts and be part of questioning what a new ecologically intregrous language might look like (or a language towards flourishing for all)
Move beyond Western, dualistic, and binary notions of love that dictate that romantic love is the ultimate acquisition/achievement, and work towards a more democratic, pluralistic practice of love
Better understand how to love as both a practice and as a form of relating with ecological integrity
Question the role of meaning within the cosmos