Meeting Nature – Rethinking Human–Nature Relations
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity are challenging the foundations of how we live and work. Yet within academia, there are few spaces to critically explore how our underlying assumptions shape our relationship with nature.
Meeting Nature invites researchers working at the intersection of humans and nature to step into a different kind of conference.
Rather than focusing on presentations alone, this conference offers an experiential and reflective setting in which participants explore how conscious and unconscious dynamics influence their work, their collaborations, and their engagement with natural systems.
Drawing on a Group Relations approach, the conference treats itself as a living system. Nature is not approached as a backdrop, but as an active participant—engaging through rhythms, environments, and ecological processes.
Participants will engage with questions such as:
* How do we position ourselves in relation to nature?
* What assumptions shape our research and practice?
* What new forms of collaboration and leadership might emerge?
Meeting Nature offers space for dialogue, reflection, and new connections across disciplines.
Date: 10 september 12 am - 13 september 4 pm 2026
Location: Quadenoord in Renkum; Veluwe (NL)
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Scholarships: A limited number of scholarships are available.
Meeting nature is endorsed by the International Society for Psycho-analytic studies of Organisations (ISPSO); Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) and International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP).