The Ecocentric Alliance, a global advocacy network for ecocentrism and deep green ethics
I am Rebecca R Burrill, Ed.D–dancer, artist, movement-based child developmentalist, and educator. I have a Doctorate in Education focusing on brain evolution, child development, movement , art-making , learning , and literacy. My Masters work focused on creative process and dance. I am Massachusetts Certified Elementary Educator (1987-2019) and Professional Development Provider. I am a trained Observer and Notator of movement-language in the Kestenberg Movement Dance Therapy System. I have trained in the mi
My work is based on the experience that learning is fundamentally a creative process, and that aesthetic sense is primary in the development of self, intelligence, and wellbeing.
I trace the evolution of human intelligence back to primal people’s relationship with Nature , a relationship that was instrumental in the development of language and art. With these understandings I seek to renew human engagement with the primary creative intelligences of movement, sound, feeling, imagination, and ecological conscious and their natural healing and developmental capacities.
The Ecocentric Alliance, a global advocacy network for ecocentrism and deep green ethics