Dr David Wright is the programme coordinator. A researcher and teacher, he comes to social ecology from a background in writing for performance. Dr Catherine E Camden-Pratt is a an artist academic. In 2010 she was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contribution for Student Learning.

Articles about place, story, nature, education and community illustrate ways to apply our understandings from social ecology, holistic education, shamanic practices, poetic inquiry, aesthetics, curriculum design, cross-cultural learning and indigenous knowing. Includes activists' and educators stories of applying social ecology in communities.