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11AM - 5PM EST
$100 for CPA-NA, CPA-UK, and CPA-International Members, $150 for non-members.
Members: Use Promo Code DOORWAY at checkout.
Reduced Fees: Up to 4 concessionary spaces for $40 will be offered for those who cannot afford the full fee. Contact Wendy Greenspun at wgreenspun@climatepsychology.us if in need.
Who is this workshop for?
This online professional and deeply personal workshop is for therapists, counsellors and those with experience of working therapeutically with individuals or groups.
Why take this workshop?
These are times of great change and uncertainty. We are transiting a cultural threshold – going ‘through the door’ – and this requires relinquishing the ‘normal’ and being open to another reality. Between the desire to ‘Do Something’ and the feelings of overwhelm, is a third possibility, that of being with the unendurable feelings and engaging a different reality. Much anxiety accompanies this. The therapeutic training and practice we have had as practitioners may allow us to tolerate this anxiety, to stay with difficulties, to attend to unconscious processes and be containers, even catalysts, for transformation.
The workshop is an experience of feeling, thinking and imagining together that supports participants in their own version of going ‘through the door’ and finding new ways of feeling into the future that is coming towards us through the climate and ecological crises of our time. The aim is to inspire new forms of being and doing fit for the challenges of this uncertain time.
What is it like taking part in Through the Door?
Through the Door involves imaginal practices and group work that draw on traditional rites of passage to visualise and experience being at the threshold of a new self. In the words of one participant:
"Yesterday, I was so surprised and energised by the marvellously imaginative and creative event you facilitated. I can't believe I'm saying this of a Zoom event!!!
It stayed with me for the whole day. Lots of images and thoughts drifting back and forth. It felt fertile and productive but also, painful and confusing. But, above all I felt energised. I don't think it's made me feel clearer about what I should be doing, or how, but I feel inspired and alive to possibilities!
The group thinking triggered not just the loss and chaos of the Crisis but also my personal story. I think this was the 'powerful' connection enlivened in me.
Playful, creative and imaginative crisis!
If this is what is on the other side of the door .....then, count me in."
The facilitators
Steffi Bednarek is a psychotherapist, trauma therapist and organisational consultant. Steffi has published a wide range of articles on climate psychology and leadership issues and on wider socio political issues that affect our wellbeing. https://www.steffibednarek.com
Rebecca Nestor is a facilitator and organisational consultant, and a board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance. She has recently submitted her doctoral thesis at the Tavistock Clinic on the experience of leaders in climate change organisations. www.rebeccanestor.co.uk