Join CPA-NA's bi-monthly drop-in conversation called “Linking Conversations.” We will think and talk together about what’s happening in the world–such as extreme weather, political moments, and cultural flashpoints–and about linking thought and action, being and doing, the internal and external worlds. Through these conversations, we hope create links that will help us bear the weight of climate change and find spaciousness from which to act.

This Month's Suggested Topic:

BRAVE NEW WORLD
How is our psyche and our world changing with the rise of authoritarianism, climate denial, and the loss of privacy through social media and AI? How did the world we feared become the world that is becoming acceptable? Is our disregulating climate a part of the dismantling of science, integrity, and honesty - or is it part of a feedback loop reminding us of the need to engage around the science not only with integrity and honesty, but also courage, compassion, curiosity, wonder and openness to explore what transformation might mean?

Join us in a conversation about our changing world, its risks, and the opportunity to generate something meaningful, which is inclusive of all our relations, human and more than human.

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The conversations are founded on the idea that to build an empathic and justice oriented response to the climate crisis, we need to support and honor those parts of being human that “link” - to our own inner lives, to the subjective experiences of others, to the collective lived experience of our communities, and to the environment in which we live and upon which we depend. In a culture that persistently attacks and disavows these links, we aim to recognize and support them.

FREE with suggested $5 donation (we are an all volunteer organization and welcome donations to defray costs. No one turned away for inability to make a donation.

REFUND POLICY

We understand that things come up and can’t always be anticipated. We will grant refunds requested 48 hours ahead of the event. We will not honor refunds after the event has started.