PD3: Being present with climate distress - Applications to professional practice

PD3: Being present with climate distress – Applications to professional practice is the final workshop in the Climate Aware Practitioners PD series. 

This workshop will enable participants to develop knowledge and skills to support people who experience eco-distress or eco-anxiety. This will involve deepening the practitioner’s capacity for presence, and an evidence-informed understanding of the presenting issues and their impact on mental health. PSC’s evidence informed support model will be explored in greater depth and applications to presenting issues considered.

Prerequisite: Participants must have already completed the two earlier events in this series –

PD1: Engaging with climate change and eco-distress and PD2: Reflections and responses to the climate reality.

All events are via Zoom (AEST – Melbourne time)

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Cost: 

Standard registration $160

PSC Members get a 20% discount when registering for this workshop - enter your member discount code at the checkout

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Facilitators:

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.

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1. A PSC event may include experiential components in which participants work in a group format to discuss their thoughts and feelings, facilitated by the workshop leader(s). Although the leader(s) is/are accredited mental health professional(s), and trained facilitator(s) with PSC, these group experiences are not therapy groups, and the facilitator(s) will not engage in rendering any psychotherapeutic or healthcare advice, or advice of any kind for any individual or for their particular situation.
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