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Join the online launch event - Mon 17 Apr!

Based on the award-winning Carbon Conversations Project, Living with the Climate Crisis provides materials for psychologically based groups to help people respond creatively & collectively to the #ClimateCrisis.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-living-with-the-climate-crisis-tickets-576956631817

Are you qualified & registered with either BACP or HCPC or UKCP? Working in the U.K?
Have any of your clients mentioned climate concerns within your work together – either as part of more general concerns, or as a main issue?

If yes, please email Poppy to take part in a Zoom interview for a project exploring how it feels for counsellors, psychotherapists or practitioner psychologists to experience eco-anxiety or climate distress coming into their clinical work.

poppy.gould@city.ac.uk

ClimatePsychologyAlliance boosted:

I couldn’t be more proud to be part of the launch of Living with the Climate Crisis, a new small-group experience that helps people find their place in the climate movement. New website www.livingwiththeclimatecrisis.org. Materials by Andy Brown, Daniela Fernandez Catherall, Ro Randall & myself. Thanks @ClimatePsychologyAlliance members & chair Judith Anderson for supporting the project. Launch event online, 17 April 7 pm, book here bit.ly/3YT8w5f @climatepsychologygroup

Screenshot of the home page of the website living with the climate crisis.org. The images show the words ‘Living with the climate crisis’ and text saying ‘Living with the climate crisis – psychologically based groups to help people respond creatively and collectively to our global dilemmas’

Picture by Karen Leahy of bramble leaves with sunshine and wintry grass behind them

Wed 29th March online 11am UK time:

A facilitated space specifically for parents/carers/guardians of children & young people to share difficult feelings about the #ClimateCrisis.

Join us!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-circle-for-parentscarersguardians-wed-29th-mar-tickets-556132385937

#Climate in Mind' online event this Friday.

Stirling University offers you the chance to explore feelings about the #ClimateCrisis and decisions about #ClimateAction while contributing to research.

All welcome!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-in-mind-climate-cafes-for-coping-and-catalysing-climate-action-tickets-559420751527?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Spaces available on this online day workshop for practitioners on facing the #ClimateCrisis.

Sat 25th Mar 10am - 4.30pm UK time

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/461778731617

Free monthly online drop-in space for young people 18-25 held by two experienced facilitators.

Come & share your #EcoAnxiety & other feelings with people who get it – & learn tools for resilience along the way.

Wed 15 Mar

No need to book.

Info below.
https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/568144093277

ClimatePsychologyAlliance boosted:

We welcome you to book a place on our forthcoming webinar, Engaging with #ClimateChange & Eco-Distress.

Led by the wonderful team at Psychology For A Safe Climate & relevant for anyone working in the therapy room with #ClimateAnxiety and other forms of ecological distress..

Sat 15 Apr 9 - 11am UK time

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/524625457867

If you'd like the opportunity to share difficult #Climate feelings – whether that's #EcoAnxiety, grief, distress, anger or anything else – you are welcome to sign up for our #ClimateCafé online Sat 11th Mar 10.30am - 12 UK time.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/450546535817

We welcome you to book a place on our forthcoming webinar, Engaging with #ClimateChange & Eco-Distress.

Led by the wonderful team at Psychology For A Safe Climate & relevant for anyone working in the therapy room with #ClimateAnxiety and other forms of ecological distress..

Sat 15 Apr 9 - 11am UK time

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/524625457867

ClimatePsychologyAlliance boosted:

Thank you to Joel Down of XR Barcelona for this beautifully-written piece following a conversation with me. Joel brings his own experience of solace in nature to make meaning from the theories of containment we’d been discussing. https://xrbarcelona.org/en/blog/climate-psychology-nature/ @climatepsychologygroup @ClimatePsychologyAlliance

Screenshot of text from the article referred to in the toot. The text reads: The spectre of a cow took me by surprise though, suddenly visible behind some trees. It was so unexpected I couldn’t help but laugh. With every step I felt more at home, comforted by a wilderness that was both familiar and strange.

Then I reflected on what psychologist, Rebecca Nestor, had told me earlier that week. Namely, that nature can help us to process our emotions safely, an experience known as “containment”. She explained, “staying open to our love for the natural world can have a similar effect to being listened to by a human being.” She uses the example of standing “under some trees and breathing and taking in what’s happening around you (…) where something bigger than you is able to hold you but also enables your distress to be gradually turned into something you can understand and find words for.” This rang true for me: when I was younger, and was troubled by something, I
would go for a walk in the forest to clear my head. I’d soon feel better.

If you need the chance to share difficult #Climate feelings, there are a few spaces left on Wed 22nd Feb online #ClimateCafé hosted by CPA Scotland. 7 - 8.30pm

All welcome.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cpa-scotland-climate-cafe-online-tickets-392962500417?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&keep_tld=1

Are you a parent, carer or guardian and having difficult feelings about the #ClimateCrisis

We have spaces available on our Climate Circle on Thurs 23rd Feb 10.30am - 12 UK time.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/520472486217

This is a facilitated space for feelings rather than advice.

ClimatePsychologyAlliance boosted:

Great day today with Daniela Fernandez Catherall co-facilitating a workshop for potential facilitators on ‘Living with the Climate Crisis’. Written by Ro Randall, it helps people respond to the climate crisis personally & collectively. Thanks @ClimatePsychologyAlliance for hosting & funding. @climatepsychologygroup

The front cover of Living with the Climate Crisis participant’s handbook, by Rosemary Randall, Rebecca Nestor, Daniela Fernandez-Catherall.

The Introduction page for Living with the Climate Crisis participant’s handbook. The text reads:

iNTRODUCTiON
This short handbook is written for people taking part in the Climate Psychology Alliance’s project, Living with the climate crisis.
Living with the climate crisis has grown out of Carbon Conversations, an award-winning project which started in 2007 and ran psychologically based groups on how to reduce carbon emissions.Times have changed and we have updated the focus to the concerns which are most pressing for people today.

You may be someone who is newly aware of climate change.You may be someone who joined the upsurge of concern that swept the UK in 2018. You may be someone who has been working on climate issues for decades. Whenever you became involved you will – like everyone in the climate movement – be facing questions about how to deal with the frightening and uncertain future in front of us.The groups aim to help people connect, find strength and take action in whatever way feels appropriate to them.

The groups run for ten sessions.These may be spread across ten weekly meetings.They can also start with a whole day meeting and follow this with seven weekly meetings or be run across three days, separated by several weeks.They are run by facilitators who are involved in the climate movement.The project is hosted by the Climate Psychology Alliance which recruits and supports the facilitators.

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis - an online event with Sally Weintrobe held by Sarah Peyton.

24th Jan 5pm UK time

https://sarahpeyton.com/event/psychological-roots-of-the-climate-crisis-the-culture-of-uncare-with-sally-weintrobe/

ClimatePsychologyAlliance boosted:

Here’s Ayisha Siddiqa’s interesting piece on climate anxiety as ‘an illness of the system’ - a sign of good mental health. @climatepsychologygroup @ClimatePsychologyAlliance https://reframe2022.mhi.org.in/revisions/climate-anxiety-an-illness-of-the-system/

ClimatePsychologyAlliance boosted:

@GrahamBoydphd @TheGuardian Thanks Graham for everything you do. I hear how hard it is and I hope you have access to the social and emotional support that humans need when we’re doing difficult stuff or facing difficult truths @ClimatePsychologyAlliance

ClimatePsychologyAlliance boosted:

@rebeccaclimate @TheGuardian I can do relate to this. I'm 2008 my climate anxiety led me to leave a comfortable job, and since then I've been building businesses to address climate, biosphere, social etc. challenges. And writing a book on how to do it, including growing one's inner capacity. But it's getting harder by the year to keep going.

Good to see some advice from CPA's Caroline Hickman in this article - plus some wonderful honesty about climate distress.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/30/fear-climate-catastrophe-thing-ill-do-differently

#climate #ClimateAnxiety

ClimatePsychologyAlliance boosted:

@ClimatePsychologyAlliance @climatepsychologygroup These resources are not only for climate scientists! They’re available for anyone concerned about the #ClimateCrisis or working on it in any way.

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