This workshop will support participants in developing the confidence to facilitate their own climate café. The workshop will include:
An explication of the psycho-social principles on which climate cafes are based
A short experiential climate cafe
Suggestions of a toolkit of practical resources
A discussion of practical aspects of organizing and facilitating
As the present and ongoing threat of the climate and environmental emergency becomes increasingly evident, we will need to find ways to process and bear the many complex and dysregulating emotional responses that emerge. Working with difficult emotions, rather than turning away, can facilitate learning new ways of being and foster capacities for engagement. Sharing thoughts, feelings, and experiences with others can additionally help build an essential sense of community, as well as greater emotional resilience.
While specifically not a clinical encounter, a climate cafe creates a simple, reflective, empathetic space where fears and uncertainties about the climate crisis can be safely expressed and held. There are no guest speakers or lectures at these cafes; advice and action are not the focus. Based on the model of death cafes, climate cafes have been utilized, increasingly, to help a variety of individuals and communities find ways to face and hold the unsettling realities of the planetary crisis.
This workshop will support participants in developing the confidence to facilitate their own climate cafe. It will include an explication of the psycho-social principles on which climate cafes are based, provide a short experiential climate café, suggest a toolkit of practical resources, and incorporate discussions on practical aspects of organizing and facilitating.
Meet the presenters:
Wendy Greenspun, Ph.D. is a psychologist/psychoanalyst who heads the clinical support subcommittee of the Climate Psychology Alliance - North America. She is on faculty at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, the Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in Marriage and Couples Therapy and the William Alanson White Couple Therapy Training and Education Program.
She has published and presented papers, workshops, and courses for clinicians on working with climate distress. She provides workshops on building emotional resilience for climate activists, high school, and university students. She has run groups (climate cafes) for processing climate emotions. She is in private practice in New York City.
Liliane Mavridara MA, DipACLM, Dipl. ABT (NCCAOM) is a mind-body health professional, transpersonal therapist, and holistic consultant with over 20 years of individual and group facilitation experience in diverse interdisciplinary and cross-cultural settings.
Liliane consults and educates on the impact of environmental pollution and climate change on individual and community holistic health and wellbeing, and she leads and co-facilitates peer support circles and communities of practice that focus on social capacity skills building, including psychological flexibility, prosocial collaboration, and trauma-informed leadership. She is a Climate for Health Ambassador, a Climate Reality Leader, and a Climate Café Facilitators trainer with CPA-NA.
Please contact info@climatepsychology.us for information on discounted tickets.
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This workshop will include experiential components in which participants will work in a group format to discuss their thoughts and feelings, facilitated by the workshop leader. Although the leader may be a licensed mental health professional, these group experiences are not therapy groups, and the facilitator will not engage in rendering any psychotherapeutic or healthcare advice, or advice of any kind for any individual or for their particular situation.
The Climate Psychology Alliance-North America does not provide medical, mental health or any other type of healthcare service. No diagnosis or treatment of, or advice regarding, any medical or mental health condition or illness of any participant can or will be offered. Participation in our workshops cannot substitute for, and is not an alternative to, medical or other healthcare diagnosis and treatment when a medical or mental health condition or illness is present. Participants are advised to seek diagnosis, treatment and advice regarding medical or mental health conditions or illnesses from physicians, psychotherapists and other licensed healthcare professionals.
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