Over the past 5 years, the Canadian Ecopsychology Network has hosted 6500+ people in close to one hundred different online events. During this time, there has been a noticeable shift in the content and themes of the presentations. One trend includes a broadening of the application, focus, and purpose of ecopsychology to be more than an individual personal project. The purpose of this article is to present a collage of community concepts exploring the emergence of the new field of community ecopsychology.
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