HR!Day585 - COP X: Inner Work/Outer Work for the Climate Crisis: From Anxiety to Activism
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“Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.” James Hilman
How do we cope with our fear and grief about climate? How do we speak to our patients, clients, students, kids, and grandkids about their mental health and the climate crisis? How do we use activism as an antidote to anxiety and helplessness? What blocks our activism? How do we align our actions with our values in each moment? We hear about building resilient coastlines and cities. How do we build inner resilience for the climate turbulence to come?
Around the world, children and young people have the largest stake in finding solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis. We need to find ways to protect and support children while acknowledging their fears. As youth are taking to the streets and law courts to express their frustration, how can we adults examine our defenses and listen to them more honestly to find ways to navigate the emerging world together.
Many therapy clients, particularly young people, are reporting significant levels of climate anxiety and distress due to governmental inaction on climate. How do we best respond to these very relevant and appropriate concerns when we hear them in our patients? This is not pathological anxiety based on biology or fantasy. It’s based on reality. And how do we deal with our own distress so that we can more accurately listen to others?
We will discuss how climate anxiety and other ecological emotions are affecting educators and students, and about the importance of emotions in the educational setting. He will introduce three key skills that support wiser responses to the climate predicament and provide specific pedagogical techniques for integrating affective experiences into the classroom. He will close with a climate-focused mindfulness practice.
This closing day will address these questions and offer advice and practices to take with you after this week.
Host
- Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist, Climate Reality Leader, and Citizens Climate Lobbyist. She is coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul. Her updated, expanded edition of Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening will be released in 2023.
Panelists
- Caroline Hickman, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Bath researching children and young people’s emotional responses to climate change around the world for 10 years, examining eco-anxiety & distress, eco-empathy, trauma, moral injury, and intergenerational stresses. She is co-author on a 2021 quantitative global study into children & young people’s emotions & thoughts about climate change published in The Lancet Planetary Health. She has been developing a range of therapeutic & educational tools for ecological distress, a psychological assessment model for eco-anxiety, and delivered workshops in climate psychology, emotional resilience and mental health internationally. ::http://caroline-hickman.com/index.html::
- Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst on the teaching faculty at Adelphi University’s postgraduate programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has published articles on the environmental crisis and mental health and presented at international conferences since 2007. She is co-founder and co-president of Climate Psychology Alliance-North America, which addresses the psychological aspects of the climate crisis by training climate-aware therapists and also focuses on personal and community resilience and climate justice. She has a private practice on Long Island, New York. ::https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/::
- Kevin M. Gallagher, JD., Ma., is an attorney, author, and the Director of Emergent Resilience, a non-profit organization that helps government agencies, academic institutions, corporations, and nonprofits foster resilience for a climate changing world through experiential workshops and seminars. In addition to a law degree, he has an Ma. in International Affairs, with a focus on international environmental institutions. Previously, Kevin worked on climate change and environmental law and policy issues as an attorney in Washington, D.C., and as a policy specialist focused international peace building issues with the Public International Law & Policy Group. www.emergentresilience.com
- Sam Daykin
- Alpha Kargbo
- Aisha
Humanity Rising’s COP 27 Program is co-sponsored by:
- Facing Future TV,a YouTube channel and web site platform that covers climate issues and does interviews with scientists, thought leaders, activists and policymakers to raise awareness and activism about addressing the climate crisis. Representing Facing Future TV each day from Sharm El Sheikh will be Raya Salter, an attorney, consultant, educator and clean energy law and policy expert with a focus on energy and climate justice. She is the founder of the Energy Justice Law and Policy Center and a member of the New York State Climate Action Council, the body that is developing the plan to implement the nation's leading climate law, the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, the state origin of the Federal "Justice40" environmental justice initiative.
- OzGREEN(Global Rivers Environmental Education Network Australia Inc) is an independent not-for-profit that operates nationally in Australia and overseas in South Asia, South-East Asia & Pacific, Latin America and East Timor. Established in 1992, OzGREEN’s unique approach incorporates citizen science, transformative sustainability leadership and community development, enabling people to innovate sustainability solutions themselves. OzGREEN programs have directly involved over 1 million people from over 1600 communities in Australia, Africa, India, Pakistan, Nepal, SE Asia, Papua New Guinea, Europe, Middle East, East Timor, USA, Canada and Central America. www.ozgreen.org.
- Sue Lennox, along with her late husband Colin, has been the driving force behind OzGREEN since its inception in 1992. She is a social entrepreneur (winner Social Ventures Australia Big Boost 2002) and a former high school science teacher. Sue is a grandmother, an avid gardener and lives a simple life, “off the grid” with her extended family. Sue was named as one of the Most Influential People in Sydney in 2007 and 2020 NSW Senior Australian of the Year. OzGREEN’s work has been acknowledged by the Eureka Prize, Banksia Awards, UNAA Media Peace Awards, UNESCO, Buckminster Fuller Catalyst program, and is a Best Practice Case Study for the Australian Association for Environmental Education (NSW). Sue will introduce the youth representatives each day.
- Youth Leading the World (YLTW)is a transformative sustainability leadership program that enables young people to find their voice and become active participants in creating fairer futures. Youth leadership, social innovation and community driven change are key. OzGREEN trains local people to run YLTW in their own region. Through YLTW, OzGREEN is openly sharing the skills and experience we gained over 30 years of delivering of recognized excellence in transformative sustainability leadership programs. Representatives of thee youth groups will report in each day. www.ozgreen.org.au/yltw
Co-Moderator with Jim Garrison:
- Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker is an evolutionary anthropologist known for her original research on primate social structure and evolution, and the author of TEEMING: How Nature’s Oldest Teams Adapt and Thrive, regarded as the definitive work on Organizational Biomimicry. Her efforts are focused on rehumanizing organizations that support community revitalization for bioregional regeneration and restoration. Her company TEEMLab provides education, consulting, and speaking in support of this aim. She is also the Dean of Geoversity’s School of Biocultural Leadership in Panama and Director and Founder of the Borrego Institute for Living Design (the BILD) in Borrego Springs, California, where she offers experiential immersions and living systems thinking and design.
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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