Climate Cafe Facilitator Support Group

This support meeting is for those CPA-NA members who are running or have been trained as facilitators of climate- emotion groups, including climate cafes. Like the reflective model of CPA and CPA-NA climate cafes, this structured consultation approach allows members to engage with the challenges more deeply and offer support to each other in holding climate emotion-support groups.

Meet the hosts

Wendy Greenspun is a psychologist/psychoanalyst practicing in New York City and is a board and steering committee member of CPA-NA. She has led workshops for students and activists on building emotional resilience in the face of climate distress, run climate cafes, and has presented and taught nationally and internationally on the climate crisis to mental health professionals and wider audiences.

Janet A. Castellini, LCSW, LCADC, NCPsyA is a modern psychoanalyst in private practice. She worked in the field of energy and environment education for 27 years, developing programs ranging from school energy efficiency to student EV conversion and competition. She has been a trainer, writer, fundraiser, project developer, evaluator, and developer of networks and collaborative teams. She uses her psychological training to assist people to build inner strength to deal with climate change and the other major crises of our time.

Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D., is a psychologist/psychoanalyst practicing in Manhasset, N.Y., and is Head of Education and Training Subcommittee of CPA-NA. She has presented papers at national and international conferences on the topic of mental health and the environment and has published papers in this area. She has taught workshops on this topic to undergraduate and doctoral students. She has held Climate Café Facilitator Training workshops.

Please contact elizabethallured@climatepsychology.us with questions.