PD1: Engaging with climate change and eco-distress

OFF SALE - this event is cancelled due to facilitator unavailability. The next session of PD1 will run on August 26th, and will open for registrations soon. Please email us if you'd like to be on a wait list for that session, or if you would like a refund for the May 6 session. Attendees who were booked for this session will be provided with a registration link to the August 26 session unless they request a refund.  

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This is the first webinar in the Climate Aware Practitioner (CAP) Professional Development series. 

Participants will be introduced to PSC’s Support Model, an evidence-informed approach to supporting people who are distressed by the reality of climate change. PSC encourages expression of emotions about climate change without pathologising people’s responses. Eco-anxiety and climate distress are seen as rational responses to the growing climate crisis. Participants will engage with their own response to climate change in order to develop capacity to provide professional support around this challenging issue.

Participants may wish to take their learning further by participating in the whole series of CAP Professional Development.

Location

Online, via Zoom (AEST – Melbourne time)

Cost

$80

PSC Members get a 20% discount - enter your member discount code at the checkout

Facilitator Bios

Christie Wilson, MA (PSC)

Christie is a clinical and “climate psychotherapist” who supports climate leaders at the front line of the climate and ecological crises. She writes, facilitates and coordinates Climate-Aware Professional Development Programs for Psychology for a Safe Climate and supports mental health practitioners on their climate journey and bringing climate psychology into practice.

Dr Beth Hill

Beth has a PhD in Anthropology researching the cultural and psychological dimensions of climate change, in particular how communities come to terms with what climate change means in their daily lives.  Beth trained with Joanna Macy in the Work that Reconnects. She facilitates workshops drawing on this approach, as well deep ecology, mindfulness and creative processes involving art and writing.

*This event is registered with ACA and represents 5 OPD points

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