Upcoming Events/Trainings in Climate Psychology
Watch this space for a curated list of workshops, conferences, panels, trainings, and talks happening around the globe (excluding events hosted by CPA-NA, which are on a separate page). And please check the event details for time zone information!
If you’d like to see recordings of previous talks and workshops,
watch them here.
Webinar: Climate Crisis Activism
Join SEPCP in June for a webinar exploring the intersection of psychology and climate crisis activism.
Countering Climate Distress: From Climate Aware Therapy to Climate Action
Lise Van Susteran, a leading researcher and practitioner in the field of climate psychology, will emphasize taking action to counter climate distress as a key element to support mental health providers to help individuals and society cope with rising stress.
This event is free.
This event may qualify for 1.5 General CE Hours. See the event page above for more info.
NOTE: This is not a CPA-NA event. Above copy is courtesy of event organizers. Please contact them with questions.
Indigenous Forum – From the Bottom Up: How Indigenous Action is Affecting Climate Change
“The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) 28th gathering on Climate Change wrapped up in December of 2023. Indigenous Peoples presence has increased every year, and we have become the second largest civil society delegation at COP, second only to oil & gas lobbyists. Indigenous Peoples have played a critical role in these spaces for decades, utilizing the deep-rooted knowledge our communities hold concerning the effects of climate change and the connections to our intimate relationships with land and water.
Our beliefs tell us how to keep systems in balance, contrary to the ideologies of capitalism that have spread across the globe. We know climate change is driving extreme weather and the 6th mass extinction on Earth, yet governing bodies are still not doing enough to mitigate greenhouse gasses. Promises are starting to be made with attention to the recommendations of Indigenous Peoples, our knowledge systems, and our rights, but they continue to be negated by policies that subsidize the carbon-based economy.
Indigenous Peoples require more than just political action but recognition of our sovereign inherent and internationally affirmed rights to turn this crisis around. Join us to learn how Indigenous climate activists impact national and international negotiations and policies to address climate change and what you can do to support the movement.
Moderated by Eriel Deranger, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Indigenous Climate Action. With Jayce Chiblow, Director of Education and Programming with Indigenous Climate Action; Mak’wala Rande Cook, Ma’amtagila hereditary chief and founding Director of the Awi’nakola Foundation.” (Text from event website.)
NOTE: This is not a CPA-NA event. Above copy is courtesy of event organizers. Please contact the organizer with questions.
Climate Psychology Alliance - Online Explorations Webinar: Anger, Grief and the Climate Emergency
The climate emergency faces us both with irredeemable loss and with systematic injustice. Does it follow that both grief and anger have a powerful positive role to play in our individual and collective response? But what if grief simply encourages acceptance and reconciliation? And doesn’t anger sit uncomfortably with the commitment to non-violent direct action lying at the heart of environmental protest?
This webinar will explore some of the complex relations between grief, remorse, resignation, bitterness and anger. Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) co-founder Paul Hoggett will offer a brief overview of the role of such feelings in political protest based upon his book Politics, Identity and Emotion.
Then Caroline Lucas, who will retire as a Green Party MP at next General Election and hopes to train as a doula to the dying, will be in conversation with CPA members Chris Robertson and Steffi Bednarek.
Attendees will have the chance to participate in group dialogues and reflections during the webinar.
Fees:
- Non-members: £50
- CPA Members: £30
- Concessions: £10
The webinar is part of a series that seeks not only to explore those questions above
but also to fundraise for the running of the Explorations in Climate Psychology e-
journal affiliated with the Climate Psychology Alliance. The e-journal sensitively tracks
and reflects the pace, rhythms, voices, movements and other expressions of climate
psychology that are emerging and aims to be inclusive of the different ways people
are experiencing and engaging with one another on the climate and ecological crisis.
For more information about the journal, please follow this link.
NOTE: This is not a CPA-NA event. Above copy is courtesy of event organizers. Please contact them with questions.
Connecting Climate Minds Global event
Connecting Climate Minds (CCM), a Wellcome funded project, is fostering connections between global, regional, country and community leaders in diverse disciplines and sectors relevant for climate change and mental health. Together, the growing regional and global CCM community has developed research and action agendas that reflect the experiences of communities and individuals living with mental health challenges affected by the climate crisis, to focus efforts towards a future better for mental health and the planet. For more information on the background to CCM please visit the project website here.
On 19-21 March 2024, Connecting Climate Minds stakeholders will come together in person in Barbados to finalise the Global Research and Action Agenda, and celebrate the communities that have been built during the past year’s tremendous work undertaken by the Regional Communities of Practices, Lived Experience Working Group, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and Imperial’s Climate Cares Centre.
The Connecting Climate Minds Global Event is the culmination of the project’s first year of work and will bring together key members of the community across the seven Sustainable Development Goal regions to showcase the project outputs, and learn from and with the growing global community in climate change and mental health (we hope that includes you!), and reflect together on next steps.
All are invited to join the event virtually to learn about the project outcomes, listen to presentations from our regional communities, youth, small farmers and fisher people, and indigenous communities on their findings, and connect with others joining the global climate change and mental health community.
APHA's Climate, Health and Equity Summit
APHA invites you to their first-ever Climate, Health and Equity Summit, a two-day virtual event bringing together APHA members and partners from across sections and disciplines to explore the intersectionality of climate, health and equity, build community, and advance collaborative work in the pursuit of a healthier, more equitable future. This event will be held in Zoom allowing participants to join breakout groups and network with one another. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or a newcomer eager to make a difference, this Summit provides a platform for learning, collaboration, and empowerment.
The Summit is a call to action, a platform for every individual to harness their unique expertise and contribute meaningfully to the collective fight against the climate crisis. Together, we can forge a path toward a sustainable, equitable future where health and well-being flourish for all.
REGISTER HERE
Registration Fees:
APHA Member: $30.00
Non-Member: $40.00
All proceeds will go towards bringing students to APHA’s 2024 Annual Meeting
NOTE: This is not a CPA-NA event. Above copy is courtesy of event organizers. Please contact them with questions.
Climate Change, Mental Health and Forced Displacement
Join the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Research Network as they discuss the impact of climate-related events on the mental health and psychosocial well-being of forcibly displaced populations. Their panel of experts will share their insights and experiences on the impact of this global challenge and what can be done to mitigate this impact.
Speakers:
Emmanuela Osei-Asemani -London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lynne Jones - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Brandon Gray - World Health Organization
Jura Augustinavicius - McGill University
Catharina Van de Boor - LSHTM (Moderator)
Hosted in-person at the John Snow Lecture Theatre, LSHTM, Keppel Street AND via Zoom (https://bit.ly/CCMHPSS)
NOTE: This is not a CPA-NA event. Above copy is courtesy of event organizers. Please contact them with questions.
Community is Medicine
Date: December 12, 2023
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm EST | 9:00 - 10:00pm PST
The urgency and benefits of using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience to prevent and heal climate - and other - mental health & psychosocial problems.
Examples of communities in the US and internationally using this approach and the many benefits they have achieved.
Why HR 3073/S 1452, the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act that has been introduces in the US Congress, is important to support and fund community-based initiatives.
Why similar policies are needed at the regional, state, and local levels in the US - and globally - and how you can help make that a reality.
Please join us December 12 to learn why and how “Community is Medicine” for climate and other traumas!
Parenting in a Changing Climate
Parenting in a Changing Climate: How parents can support their children & themselves in a warming world
Date: December 4, 2023
Time: 7:00 - 8:00pm EST | 4:00 - 5:00pm PST
Elizabeth Bechard is Senior Policy Analyst for Moms Clean Air Force and leads the organization’s work on climate change and mental health. She is author of Parenting in a Changing Climate: Tools for Cultivating Resilience, Taking Action, and Practicing Hope in the Face of Climate Change. Elizabeth holds a Master’s of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where her thesis research focused on climate change and parents’ mental health. She is a member of the NH HWCA CHICKS Advisory Board and the Early Years Climate Action Task Force, and lives in Vermont with her husband and twins.
Jennifer Alford-Teaster, MA, MPH, Program Manager, Community Health, New London Hospital, will introduce Elizabeth Bechard and moderate the Q & A. Co-sponsors of this webinar, as for the parent climate cafes two days before, are the Climate and Health Initiative for Caregivers and Kids (CHICKs), the Montshire Museum of Science, the Center for Advancing Rural Health Equity at Dartmouth Health, the Boys & Girls Club of Central NH, and Mom’s Clean Air Force.
Climate Psychology Monthly Study Group
Facilitated by Andrew Bryant and Alexandra Woollcott, from the Alliance of Climate Therapists - Northwest, this study groups meets regularly on zoom on the third Friday of every month. The goal of the group is to discuss a reading, film or other piece of media related to climate psychology.
In the October meeting, the group will discuss The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson. The meeting with will be held over zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87837846379 (Meeting ID: 878 3784 6379)
Kathleen Wells, PhD, Professor Emerita, Case Western Reserve University, will lead the discussion of the 2020 book. She has said of the book: “This book is, in Stephen Frug's phrasing, a modernist novel, a science fiction novel, a utopian novel, and a political novel, but it does not conform to the form of any one of these genres. The novel opens in 2025 after a "wet bulb" heat event in India kills 20 million people in one week. The novel then, through weird and interesting ways, sketches the pathways through which humanity and the planet move forward from this and through other climate-related catastrophes. It is simultaneously a grim book and a hopeful book.
There is much in the text to discuss in relation to the consequences of the climate catastrophe for mental health, including questions such as:
Is PTSD an adequate framework with which to understand individuals' reactions to extreme weather events? Are the consequences of extreme weather events even best understood in terms of individual as opposed to communal experience? How can individuals come to terms, or should they, with violence committed in the name of restorative climate action and social justice? The book alludes to a communal "structure of feeling" that defines an age: Do we have communal structures of feeling in our society, and what might be the implications of these structures for despair, optimism, or healing in relation to the climate catastrophe? How might we understand the psychic consequences of living through a time of multiple revolutions (of understanding, of standards, of the prevalence (and loss of) species and habitat) in a world that is increasingly less habitable?”
Here are two reviews of the book that might be helpful:
See New York Times: https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316300136)
How to Talk to Gen Zers about Climate Emotions
Date: Oct 10, 2023
Time: 8:00 - 9:00pm EST | 5:00 - 6:00pm PST
Join us on World Mental Health Day for a one-hour introduction to new resources from the Climate Mental Health Network about how to talk to Gen Zers about climate emotions featuring CPA-NA member, Carolyn McGrath. Learn from experts and Gen Zers about how to have meaningful conversations about the climate crisis, ways to practice self-care and foster emotional wellbeing and to take meaningful action and find out about how participate in our focus groups for parents.
The webinar will be recorded for those who cannot join live.
Moderator: Anya Kamenetz: journalist and CMHN advisor
Speakers:
Carolyn McGrath: Hopewell Valley Regional School District teacher and Climate Psychology Alliance-NA Member.
Harriet Shugarman: Executive Director, Climate Mama
Heidi Pan: High school student and host and producer of 1.5 Degrees podcast
Vanessa Villanueva: CMHN Gen Z advisor
Community is Medicine: The population-level benefits of community-led initiatives to prevent and heal trauma from the climate crisis
Date: September 6, 2023
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST/9:00 - 10:00pm PST
The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is hosting a presentation that will describe the urgent need, methods, and many benefits of community-led initiatives that use a public health approach to build population mental wellness and resilience to prevent and heal global warming-generated, and other, mental health, behavioral health, and psychosocial struggles. The information presented is the outcome of an intensive 2+ year international research project that is described in Bob Doppelt’s new book Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Routledge Publishing).
During the presentation participants will learn:
How the relentless toxic stresses, emergencies, and disasters generated by the climate emergency are producing widespread individual, community, and societal traumas that, left unaddressed, will undermine individual and collective mental health, physical health, safety, security, and wellbeing and block solutions to the climate emergency.
Why traditional expert-led mental health services cannot address these problems.
The results of the ITRC’s extensive 2+ year research project that determined that, to prevent and heal widespread climate-generated mental health and psychosocial problems, community-led initiatives must be organized that use a public health approach to build population mental wellness and “transformational resilience.” This involves strengthening the capacity of all adults, adolescents, and young children to respond and adapt to adversities in safe, healthy, and just ways, and use them as transformational catalysts to generate new positive sources of meaning, purpose, hope, and courage in life.
The 5 core foundational focuses that, in their own unique and culturally appropriate ways, will be essential for community-led initiatives to emphasize to build population mental wellness and transformational resilience for the climate emergency.
Examples of communities-led initiatives using this approach and the many benefits they have achieved.
The key roles mental health, physical health, social service, disaster management, climate mitigation and adaptation, and other professionals can play in the community initiatives.
*This presentation will be recorded and sent to everyone who registers.
Facilitator:
Bob Doppelt founded and coordinates the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), a network of mental health, social service, climate, faith, and other organizations. He is trained in both counseling psychology and environmental science and has combined the two fields throughout his career. He is also a Graduate of the International Program on the Management of Sustainability, in Ziest, The Netherlands, a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor, and longtime mindfulness teacher.
Emerging Dialogue: Exploring a New Story for Psychotherapy
As with other aspects of modernity, psychology has enabled huge understanding and enabled many of us achieve greater self-realization, peace of mind and happiness. Nevertheless, as Einstein may have said, you can’t solve a problem at the same level of consciousness that created it.
Familiar psychological paradigms are stretched. We are invited to consider the possibility of an evolutionary new paradigm, using a novel approach to “joined-up thinking”: Emerging Dialogue. We hope you will join us … the process will be all the richer for your presence.
TWO SESSIONS:
Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, 7:30 pm Eastern / 4:30 pm Pacific
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, 7:30 pm Eastern / 4:30 pm Pacific
Each Session is 90-minutes.
Participation in Session 1 is a prerequisite for participation in Session 2.
Tickets: FREE (Members Only)
Inspired by the insight of quantum physicist David Bohm, visionary facilitators Elizabeth Dubold and Thomas Steininger have developed this form of “meeting in inquiry”. Emergent Dialogue (ED) is a practice of conscious communication and a practice in awareness. Being together in this way enlivens us through an intelligence arising from the Field of Coherence. This Field informs a collective and connective space between us whenever we are speaking or deeply listening … all parts are welcome in the Whole. A more detailed description of this practice can be found here.
In modifying the name to “Emerging Dialogue” we are pointing to what can come out of (in Latin “ex” means out of or from) the merging of our voices - ex-merging - that may be “bigger” and more inclusive than the sum of the parts. Experienced dialogue facilitators Marianne Rowe and Mark Skelding will co-host this “by invitation” opportunity, extended primarily to CPA-NA members. The first of two sessions will include a short introduction leading into the process. Please note that this session is a prerequisite for anyone seeking to attend the second.
Facilitators:
Mark Skelding is a psychotherapist with 25 years experience in private practice and as a facilitator and trainer. He has a Masters in Education and Social Ecology from Western Sydney, and has worked and studied with ecopsychology veterans John Seed and Molly Brown. He has co-facilitated extended multi-stakeholder dialogues with activists, scientists and politicians on GE and Climate Change. Much of his dialogue these days arises through the ecology of a forest on Salt Spring Island, Canada.
Marianne Rowe is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and a Founding Teacher of Monterey Bay Meditation Studio. She has been actively engaged in relational, interpersonal, and dialogic training and facilitation for over 15 years. She is certified as a Nature & Forest Therapy Guide, Eco-therapist, California Naturalist, and Authentic Relating Facilitator. Marianne also holds certifications in Eco-psychology, Climate Stewardship, and Climate Psychology. In her professional roles as a psychotherapist and meditation teacher, as well as in her personal life, Marianne focuses on healing and transformation through awareness and connection. She is dedicated to catalyzing and cultivating ecosystemic consciousness and relationality in service of respecting Life in all forms … a.k.a., living in cahoots with all beings.
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Training Series – Be a Climate Communications Champion
Are you interested in learning how to communicate about the intersection of climate change and health most effectively? This 6-part training series will help you grow your strategic communications skills and public voice to change hearts and minds.
Please register to join this training workshop. By registering, you will be invited to all virtual hour-long workshops listed below. We strongly recommend you join these workshops live. All sessions will be recorded and shared after each workshop. Date: May 17 - August 19, 2023
Time: 3:00pm EST/12:00pm PST
Together with our partner Burness, we will host one-hour-long workshops on the following topics:
Communications 101: How to Make the Case About Climate Change, Health & Equity
Speakers: Anna Chen and Nick Seaver, Burness
SELECT ONE:
3 P.M. ET // 12 P.M. PT on Wednesday, May 17 OR
10:30 A.M. ET // 7:30 A.M. PT on Thursday, May 25, OR
1 P.M. ET // 10 A.M. PT on Tuesday, May 30
Learn how to most effectively deliver messages that rally your audiences to support climate action that benefits all of our lives. We require that you join this session, as it provides foundational background for the workshops that follow. We highly recommend you join one of these sessions live.
Best Practices for Working with the Media
3 P.M. ET // 12 P.M. PT on Wednesday, June 7
During this session, you will gain foundational skills for communicating with reporters, journalists, and news outlets — all important conduits to engaging broader audiences about climate change and health.
Weighing in on the News: Writing Op-eds and Letters to the Editor
3 P.M. ET // 12 P.M. PT on Wednesday, June 21
Your health voice is a powerful one. Find out ways to apply your personal perspective to persuade others to act around a certain issue.
Weighing in on Policy: How to Testify and Provide Public Comment
3 P.M. ET // 12 P.M. PT on Wednesday, July 12
Harness your expertise and effective messaging to help shape policy and regulations in the U.S.
Social Media: Getting Started and Being Strategic
3 P.M. ET // 12 P.M. PT on Wednesday, July 26
We spend so much of our time online. Learn how to share your unique voice and perspective on social media to build an understanding of the connections between climate change, health, and equity.
Rules of the Road for Engaging with Policymakers
3 P.M. ET // 12 P.M. PT on Wednesday, August 9
Discover strategies for working with and speaking with policymakers to create change that benefits your patients and the climate.
Please email Ryann Cohen (rcohen@burness.com) with any questions.
Courageous Conversations: Talking Climate Emotions with Kids
Break the silence and talk to young people about climate change and the big emotions that come with it. Join us for the upcoming interactive free webinar, Courageous Conversations: Talking Climate Emotions with Kids
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Time: 8:00pm EST/ 5:00pm PST
Audience: Open to all
Cost: Free
Hosted by: Climate Mental Health Network, Talk Climate
Access: Event will have closed captioning and be recorded
Participants: Harriet Shugarman of Climate Mama, climate psychologist Leslie Davenport, Anu Ramamurty of Kat Kid Adventure, Gen Z Climate Mental Health Advisor Vanessa Villanueva, and environmental educator and author Caroline Brewer. Moderated by Anya Kamenetz of the Aspen Institute's This Is Planet Ed.
Creatives for Climate Presents: The Psychology of Climate Inaction
Why does a large section of society still need persuading on climate action? And how can we better communicate our mission to drive change?
Creatives for Climate is a non-profit global network of industry professionals radically collaborating to drive climate action, and this conversation turns to experts tackling the psychology of climate action in different ways.
Date: Monday, May 8, 2023
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm EST/8:00am - 9:00am PST
Audience: Open to all
Cost: Free
In this part of the session, we will be answering how you can show up as a leader to truly engage others on this topic, and how to acknowledge the complex emotions people have when considering a sustainable behavior change.
Join us to learn how to reach “The Persuadables” more effectively, gain the latest insights on the the psychology of climate inaction, and how we as creatives can use our platform, power and influence to drive change.
The Creatives for Climate Team
This is the Part Where We Fall Down: On climate grief and hope with Naomi Klein, Bayo Akomolafe, and Yuria Celidwen
Join us on for our next event in the ongoing series The Edges in the Middle, where OBI Global Senior Fellow Bayo Akomolafe will meet with celebrated Canadian author, professor, and social activist Naomi Klein; and, Dr. Yuria Celidwen, a scholar of Indigenous Nahua and Maya descent from the highlands of Chiapas (Mexico), Senior Fellow of OBI, and thinker whose work straddles the intersections between Indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and contemplative science.
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET/ 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST / 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CET
Audience: Open to all
Cost: Free
Together, we will explore the untrod path with feet unshod; we will construct a stranger thesis that calls into question – if only for a moment – the anthropocentricity of hope in becoming-responsive to explosive transformations. We will investigate the agency of grief, the invitation nestled within the idea that to stand a chance, we might need to fall.
Human Among the More-Than-Human: Retrofitting Kohut for the Anthropocene
In this presentation, I try to take seriously and psychoanalytically what many have diagnosed as a key dynamic in our age of the Anthropocene, namely narcissism. Because of the powerful paradigm shift and transformations his thinking inaugurated around narcissism, I turn to Heinz Kohut and those intersubjective self psychologists who developed his ideas. By expanding Kohut’s theories of selfobject ties to include a tie to the more-than-human, I attempt to describe a state that too many of us inhabit too much of the time. An archaic self craves safety in response to precarity, while a more stable self is aware of the possibility of a liveable, generative permeability. I suggest that such self states need to be thought together with internal and external more-than-human surrounds. My hope is that these explorations may contribute to our ability to understand, explain and ultimately act on the disproportionate suffering some endure and some inflict on each other and the planet in the Anthropocene.
Project ECHO: Connecting Mental Health, Climate Justice, and Nature
Thank you for your interest in Project ECHO: Connecting Mental Health, Climate Justice, and Nature.
The program will be four sessions every other week starting November 2nd. Sessions will run from 12:00 - 1:00pm.
Start Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an evidence-based method developed by researchers at the University of New Mexico. During teleECHO™ sessions, expert mentors share their expertise across a virtual network via case-based learning. By the end of this series, participants will have increased knowledge and confidence with respect to:
Describing the impacts of climate change on mental health
Exploring collaborative strategies for promoting resilience
Discussing climate justice
Explaining the role of nature in health and healing
We invite health workers, both clinical and non-clinical, mental health workers, public health and population health professionals, emergency preparedness personnel, Disaster Behavioral Health Response Teams, hospital/healthcare system managers and staff, primary care providers, medical residents, multi-sectoral social service partners, community health workers, nutritionists/dieticians, environmental workers, allied health professionals, sustainability workers, interprofessional students/trainees, and others with related interests to join us.
Please fill out the following form below to register today!
Early Years Climate Action Task Force: Listening Session
Join us for the first public listening session with the Early Years Climate Action Task Force.
Capita and the Aspen Institute have announced the launch of the Early Years Climate Action Task Force. Co-chaired by Diana Rauner, former First Lady of Illinois and President of Start Early, and Antwanye Ford, President and CEO, Enlightened, Inc. and Chair, District of Columbia Workforce Investment Council, the Task Force includes 19 other distinguished representatives from the education and health sectors, current and former elected officials in state and Tribal government, parent leaders, and early childhood advocates.
Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (EST)
This first, public listening session will focus specifically around the questions: Why should the early years sectors move towards climate action? How will climate change impact early childhood development?
About the Speakers
Jacqueline Patterson is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. The mission of the Chisholm Legacy Project is rooted in a Just Transition Framework, serving as a vehicle to connect Black communities on the frontlines of climate justice with the resources to actualize visions. Prior to the launch of the Chisholm Legacy Project, Patterson served as the Senior Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program for over a decade. During her tenure, she founded and implemented a robust portfolio which included serving the state and local leadership whose constituencies consisted of hundreds of communities on the frontlines of environmental injustice. She also led a team in designing and implementing a portfolio to support political education and organizing work executed by NAACP branches, chapters, and state conferences.
Laurence Chandy was appointed as UNICEF’s first Director of the Office of Global Insight and Policy in August 2019. He previously served as UNICEF’s Director of Data, Research and Policy, a position he held from 2017. Mr. Chandy came to UNICEF from the Brookings Institution where for 7 years he was a Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program. There he conducted research on global poverty, fragile states, aid effectiveness, and globalization. His work, including through his membership of the Atkinson Commission on Global Poverty, shaped reforms in global poverty measurement, and helped make the case for establishing the goal to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Dr. Aaron Bernstein is the Interim Director of The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE), a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bernstein focuses on the health impacts of the climate crisis on children’s health and advancing solutions to address its causes to improve the health and wellbeing of children around the world.
Joan Lombardi , PhD is a Senior Fellow at the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, Georgetown University and a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, Stanford Graduate School of Education. Over the past 50 years, Joan has made significant contributions in the areas of child and family policy as an innovative leader and policy advisor to national and international organizations and foundations and as a public servant.
Luz Drada is a Program Coordinator for Moms Clean Air Force. She has had an interest in sustainability and the common good throughout her career. After becoming a mother, she became aware of the climate crisis and the impacts of climate change and air pollution on children’s development. Luz has held leadership positions in philanthropic and animal rescue groups in her native Colombia. Luz graduated from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting. She holds a master’s degree in Natural Resources and Global Sustainability from Virginia Tech.
The Climate Crisis and Mental Health: A Special Issue of the International Review of Psychiatry | Launch webinar
Time: 4:00 to 5:00 GMT-07:00
Audience: Open to all
Cost: Free
Tickets: First come first served
Signs of climate breakdown are evident across the globe. From wildfires in the US and Europe to heatwaves in India and Pakistan and heavy rainfall in the UK, record-breaking extreme weather events are occurring in every continent and increasing in frequency and intensity. What is unexpected, however, is the speed with which global warming even at the current level of 1C is resulting in climate chaos. Contrary to earlier scientific forecasts that temperatures would rise to over 40C by 2050 in the UK, this record has already been reached by the summer of 2022, prompting leading climate scientists to warn that the future is already here. We are informed that climate breakdown is inevitable and global leaders acknowledge that they are scared, as avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes is the best we can now do.
The fact that climate change is the biggest threat to global public health was recognized more than a decade ago but carbon emissions have simply continued to increase. Estimations of the direct health effects of aspects of climate change such as heat stress, floods, air pollution, food insecurity and the spread of vector-borne disease demonstrate that the global burden of morbidity and mortality is also increasing steeply on every continent. But, despite the recognition that the mental health toll is likely to be as severe, few efforts have been made to quantify this burden, study its extended impact on society, forecast its effects on socio-economic trends of the future or to explore ways by which the negative impacts could be addressed and hope could be harnessed to ensure the best societal outcomes for the future. This collection of research studies, commentaries and analyses attempts to remedy this gap, as it shines a light on this hitherto neglected area of the mental health and wellbeing impacts of climate change.
Join the guest editor Professor Mala Rao (Imperial College London), Dr Adrian James (President, Royal College Psychiatrists) and authors from around the world for a one-hour webinar to mark the launch of a special issue of the International Review of Psychiatry on the climate crisis and mental health.
Trauma to the Earth and Unearthed Trauma: An Eco-Psychoanalytic Engagement with Climate Distress
Trauma to the Earth and Unearthed Trauma:
An Eco-Psychoanalytic Engagement with Climate Distress
Date/Time: September 18, 2022, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (EST)
Location: Online, live via Zoom
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Click HERE To Register (Registration will close 48 hours prior to the start of the event.)
3 CEUs available for New York State Psychologists, Social Workers LMFT and LMHC
Fees
$75.00 – General Admission
$50.00 – Derner Alum, Adelphi faculty/clinical supervisor, Non-Adelphi psychoanalytic Candidate/student
$25.00 – Derner student/Postgraduate candidate
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This workshop will focus on how psychoanalytic clinicians can begin to engage with the enormity of the human-caused, Earth-based trauma of the Climate and Environmental Emergency (CEE).
This trauma has been increasingly resulting in high levels of climate distress and grief or, conversely, the disavowal or “unthought known” of the impacts. We will trace some of the ways psychoanalysis has engaged this subject, beginning with Searles (1960) in his writings on the nonhuman world to most recently the broader-based ideas of Weintrobe (2013; 2021) and others.
Speakers
Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D.
Dr Allured is the Co-President, Secretary & Board of Directors of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. She is a psychologist/psychoanalyst practicing in Port Washington, New York. She is on the teaching faculty at the Suffolk Institute, and at Adelphi University’s postgraduate programs in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has published papers on the relationship between mental health and the nonhuman environment, and has been presenting ideas about this relationship at international conferences since 2007.
Wendy Greenspun, Ph.D.
Dr. Greenspun is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Climate Psychology Alliance- North America and is a consultant at the Climate School of Columbia University. She is faculty and supervisor at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, at the Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in Marriage and Couples Therapy and on faculty at the William Alanson White Couple Therapy Training and Education Program. She has presented papers and workshops nationally and internationally on climate psychology and provides workshops and courses for mental health professionals on ways to work with climate distress and grief. She also provides workshops on building emotional resilience for climate activists and university students and has run group forums (climate cafes) for processing climate distress. She is in private practice and specializes in couples therapy and in climate-aware therapy in New York City.
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This workshop will focus on how psychoanalytic clinicians can begin to engage with the enormity of the human-caused, Earth-based trauma of the Climate and Environmental Emergency (CEE). This trauma has been increasingly resulting in high levels of climate distress and grief or, conversely, the disavowal or “unthought known” of the impacts. We will trace some of the ways psychoanalysis has engaged this subject, beginning with Searles (1960) in his writings on the nonhuman world to most recently the broader-based ideas of Weintrobe (2013; 2021) and others. This is an expanded version of our workshop given through the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, March 2022
Mindfulness for the Earth with Dr. Sarah Ray
Dates & Times
4 Monday Afternoons
4:00 to 6:00pm Pacific / 7:00 to 9:00pm Eastern
September 12 - October 3
Online via Zoom
Do you feel hopeless in the face of bad news about the health of the planet? Are you worried there won't be a healthy planet to ensure that your kids or grandkids can thrive? Do you feel the suffering of the earth and its inhabitants on a daily basis?
Research shows that mindfulness practices enhance concern about climate change, as well as the capacity to cope with and address it. Our emotions are a sign of our connection to the suffering of life on this planet. But despair, anger, and anxiety over the long-term can deplete our capacity to engage.
This 4-week session brings together the heart-practices of mindfulness and research on climate psychology to cultivate greater capacity to cope with the psychological effects of climate change, reconnect with each other and the earth, and be of service to planetary healing.
Division 34 webinar series: Topic TBD
Division 34 webinar series: Improving our science and increasing our impact.
Monthly webinar at 10am PT/11am MT/ Noon CT/1pm ET
Questions? Contact Kim Wolske, wolske@uchicago.edu
Climate Change and Environmental Justice in Harlem
How can community organizations and residents partner with local businesses, academic organizations, and government to create change?
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 10, from 6:00pm-8:00pm (EDT)
About this Event:
Kicked off on Earth Day 2022, this is the second in a series of events hosted by The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Climate School, and The City College of New York exploring the reality of how the growing risks of rising heat, more intense storms, and a history of environmental injustice continue to generate disproportionate climate impacts in communities like Harlem as well as the community leadership working to overcome this history.
What is government doing to address these risks and get at the root causes of our climate crisis? How can community organizations and residents partner with local businesses, academic organizations, and government to cause real change in policy and outcomes?
Join us for this special HARLEM WEEK event to hear from local researchers, elected officials, and community leaders on the challenges and the opportunities to empower communities to lead the way into a cleaner, safer, and healthier future.
Participants include:
Cordell Cleare, New York State Senator, 30th Senate District
Peggy Shepard, Co-founder and Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Daniel Zarrilli, Special Advisor, Climate & Sustainability, Columbia University
Dr. Courtney Cogburn, Associate Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work
Adriana Espinoza, Deputy Commissioner, Equity & Justice, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Emily Maxwell, New York Division Cities Director, The Nature Conservancy
The Honorable Milton A. Tingling, Chairperson, Board of Directors, West Harlem Development Corporation
Please note that security at the State Office Building requires that all attendees provide a photo ID on entry. To comply with Columbia University's health and safety policy, all attendees at in-person events must also be prepared to provide proof of primary COVID-19 vaccination.
UPDATE AUGUST 8, 2022: General admission tickets are full but if you sign up for the waitlist, you will be added to the registration list automatically if spaces become available. An option to watch remotely will be available here: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/climate-change-and-environmental-justice-in-harlem
Division 34 webinar series: Panel on APA Climate Change Task Force Report
Division 34 webinar series: Improving our science and increasing our impact.
Monthly webinar at 10am PT/11am MT/ Noon CT/1pm ET
Questions? Contact Kim Wolske, wolske@uchicago.edu
The Resonance and Climate Series
Join Sarah and 24 special guests for a 12-month learning community to build understanding, resiliency and togetherness amidst the ecological crisis we and our planet are facing.
The Political Mind | Love and its survival in unbearable times: living with climate breakdown and the renewed threat of nuclear war
Sally Weintrobe, Chaired by David Morgan
Date: Friday, 22nd July 2022
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm (BST), 11pm- 12:30am (EST), 2am- 3:30am (PST)
Location: Remote Event, delivered via Zoom
London
United Kingdom
Event Fee(s): Standard ticket - £ 25.00, Concession - £ 15.00
Please note: These lectures will be held on Zoom and will also be available for the following 48 hours to all registered participants. This is to allow international attendees to enjoy the event at a more appropriate time in their time zone. After this time, the recording will no longer be available.
REFUND POLICY: Tickets are fully refundable until 14 days before the lecture, after which time no refunds will be issued. For full series bookings, tickets are fully refundable 14 days before the first lecture in the series.
Concession tickets are available, for students, BPAS candidates and NHS trainees. Please email outreach@iopa.org.uk if you are unsure if you qualify for a concession ticket.
Sally Weintrobe argues that rising Exceptionalism is a significant underlying driver of the war in Ukraine and the climate crisis, both existential threats. Exceptions must attack limits and transgress boundaries to preserve their felt narcissistic entitlements to endless growth and self expansion regardless of reality's 'facts'. Exceptionalism in our era - the neoliberal era - is throwing up 'strong man' leaders, trashing the planet and pushing people past what they can bear. When unbound, Exceptionalism is a traumatising agent. Weintrobe explores the 'rising crazy, its effects (including, she argues, rising underlying suicidality) and the sort of frameworks of care needed for love and sanity to survive.
Sally Weintrobe is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS), a long-standing Member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and chairs the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Committee on Climate Change. She was formerly an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies at University College London, and a member of teaching staff at the Tavistock Clinic.
Papers include:
(2018) Communicating psychoanalytic ideas about climate change. In: P. Garvey and K. Long (Eds.), The Klein Tradition. London: Routledge.
(2019) The new imagination. In: Trogal et al. (Eds.), Architecture and Resilience. London: Routledge.
(2019) Climate crisis: the moral dimension. In: D. Morgan (Ed.), The Unconscious in Social and Political Life. Bicester: Phoenix.
(2019) The climate crisis. In Y. Stavrakakis (Ed.), Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory. London: Routledge.
(2020) Moral injury in neoliberalism’s culture of uncare. Journal of Social Work Practice.
Books:
(2012) ed. Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, . London: Routledge.
(2021) Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. London: Bloomsbury.
(2022) co-authored. Climate Psychology: a Matter of Life and Death. Bicester: Phoenix.
Views and opinions expressed by speakers are their own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Institute, event organisers or other speakers. We expect delegates to respect the confidentiality of clinical material discussed in our events. The content must not be recorded, conveyed or disseminated in any format and participants must not share access to the event with non-registered participants.
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Parenting in Tumultuous Times: a 12-week online Work That Reconnects experience for parents
Click here for more info and to register: http://www.radiantbalance.com/parenting-in-tumultuous-times/
Meeting the needs of our children within the demands and chaos of an ongoing global pandemic, school shutdowns and remote education, the pervasive economic crises, environmental devastation, ongoing social justice atrocities and the erosion of democracy and sanity worldwide is no joke!
Being a parent in these times is probably asking way more of you than you could have ever imagined. Beyond all of the practical and physical challenges, we’re also carrying the emotional weight of fear, anxiety, confusion and sadness around the experiences our children are having (and not having).
This program is specifically designed for parents in the midst of all of this.
Program details:
This program consists of six live Zoom sessions. Each session will last two hours and be highly interactive. Please be prepared to be present for the entire session without distractions. Sessions will not be recorded.
The sessions will be held every other week on the following Thursdays from 3-5pm EDT. Please double check what this will be in your local time to make sure it will work for you.
July 7
July 21
August 4
August 18
September 1
September 15
The Alliance for Ecotherapy and Social Justice: June Workshop Series
Ecotherapy for Everyone: Healing with Nature for Peace & Justice
Registration here
Workshops June 16, 17, 22, and 24
About: Please join us over two weeks to learn about and support the intersections of Nature, Healing & Social Justice
APA Division 34, Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology, Inaugural Online Conference
More information here
Save the date.
From American Psychological Association Division 34: We are pleased to announce Division 34’s inaugural online conference, to be held virtually June 16–17, 2022. Join us as we explore the latest insights from environmental, population, and conservation psychology on “Promoting a healthy and sustainable future.”
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