Ecofacilitation is a new approach to psychotherapy, formulated by Ukrainian psychologist Pavel Lushyn in his books "Personal Change Process" and “Personal Transitions as a Process: Theory and Practice” published in 2002 and over a hundred other articles. Eco-psychological facilitation (ecofacilitation) is the process of regulating individual as an open and dynamic system in order to preserve the state of self-development. Ecofacilition grew out of Rogerian facilitation, yet fundamentally different in mechanisms of regulation.

Facilitation is aimed at regulating individual’s existing potential.
Ecofacilitation is aimed at supporting self-development. Need in such support arises under the circumstances of transitioning to a new identity in psychological and social ecological systems (systemic transition). These circumstances are experienced as stagnation, i.e. deceleration of self-development (in temporal terms - interruption of self-developmental rhythm).

Ecofacilitor engages in accelerating client’s self-development by reconstructing the rhythm in a sequence of life events. In dialectical logics (according to Hegel) self-developmental rhythm can be represented as thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Ecofacilitation helps “navigate” individual’s ambiguity when new identity and new resources for consequent development are being generated (this is consistent with tolerance for ambiguity phenomenon).