Two Day Online Workshop, Three Hours Per Day | 6 APA/BBS CEs Available
Six 6 APA/BBS CEs are available for an additional fee of $30. After you register for the workshop, your confirmation email from Eventbrite will contain a link to the site where you can purchase the APA/BBS CEs from our co-sponsor, Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA). APA/BBS CEs may be purchased at any time before the workshop, but only those who have purchased in advance will receive the credits. See below for details.
Join CIIS’ Climate Psychology Certificate co-creators and renowned climate psychology educators Leslie Davenport and Barbara Easterlin for an interactive workshop for therapists, healers, and allied professionals that addresses the growing mental health impacts of the climate emergency.
Barbara and Leslie share approaches rooted in climate justice that recognize the deep entanglement of environmental issues with social and racial harms. In this workshop the skills offered can be incorporated in a variety of settings for working therapeutically with the lived experiences of eco-anxiety, eco-grief, and many expressions of climate-invoked dread. Supportive skills shared in this workshop include highlighting resilience, encouraging activism, self-regulation, and community support development. Key climate psychology terms and concepts will be explored, including unconscious processes that underlie our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors about sustainability.
Both days of this workshop will include lectures with PowerPoint, experiential learning including breakout rooms, and time for questions and discussion.
Leslie Davenport is a climate psychology educator, consultant, and therapist exploring the intersectionality of climate, economics, education, policy, and social justice. Leslie helped shape the document: “Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance” and authored four books including Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change, and All the Feelings Under the Sun, written for youth. A new workbook for kids published by the American Psychological Association will be released in 2024. She is an advisor to the Post Carbon Institute, Climate Mental Health Network, and One Resilient Earth. She is the co-creator and lead of the Climate Psychology Certificate Program at California Institute of Integral Studies and faculty with their School of Professional Psychology and Health. Learn more about Leslie by exploring her website.
Barbara Easterlin, PhD, is a clinician and consultant specializing in climate psychology. She teaches clinical workshops and develops educational and training materials for mental health clinics on the trajectory of the climate emergency, its psychological consequences, and how to help people to develop agency and resilience when engaging with this difficult topic. She is Co-President of Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA) and co-created CIIS' Climate Psychology Certificate Program. Barbara has a master's degree in environmental psychology from UC Irvine and has worked for many years as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UC Berkeley and UCSF where she specialized in neuropsychological assessment and behavioral parenting. Learn more about Barbara by exploring her website.
This is NOT a CPA-NA event. Please reach out to the organizers above with any questions.