Are you concerned about the impact of climate change on the mental health of our community?

Would you like to connect with like-minded people to be part of the solution?

Join us for session 2 of a guided conversation about the mental health impacts of climate change and help us build the capacity of our community to respond to them together.

During Session 1, participants identified the need for collaborative approaches to engage the community in collective action, create a sense of safety, increase the impact of existing initiatives, and support community members manage climate related distress. In this session we ask you to join us with your thinking caps on, ready to workshop some ideas about how to meet these needs in our region. Bring an idea of your own to develop, or your enthusiasm to help turn someones dream into reality.

This session will be facilitated by Richa Ekka.

Richa is a graduate of the Spiritual Ecology Leadership program run by CERES and Change Australia and was mentored by Claire Dunn (also known as Nature's apprentice), Sieta Beckwith (CERES in Brunswick), and Amrita Bhohi who leads the Spiritual Ecology Programme at St Ethelburga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in London. An environmental and sustainability consultant by profession Richa also a certified life coach and breathwork facilitator and an experienced group facilitator.

Community members, health care workers, support workers and organisational representatives are invited to join us in this second community conversation. Attendance at session one is NOT a pre-requisite for attending session two.

This event is supported by the Head, Heart and Hands (HHH) project, which seeks to increase community knowledge, skills, experience and connections in order to be better prepared to adapt and respond to the adverse conditions driven by climate change. HHH is a project of the Port Macquarie Hastings Sustainability Network, and is auspiced by Port Macquarie Community Gardens. The project is funded by a NSW Government Increasing Resilience to Climate Change Community Grant.

For more information please contact headheartandhandsportmac@gmail.com, or follow us on facebook @headheartandhandsportmac.

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