Resources
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Der Hub ist unsere kuratierte Bibliothek mit Ressourcen zum Thema Klima- und psychische Gesundheit.
Too often, we sit in silence with our difficult eco-emotions, which creates a sense of loneliness and powerlessness. Authentic conversations about how we’re feeling — in a space where those feelings are welcomed — can dramatically change that. Talking with others who give us permission to share openly can be comforting, empowering, and unleash creativity all at the same time.
Climate Awakening
Sometimes you just need to express your climate feelings with other people who get it, and not much more is required. Activist and psychologist Margaret Klein Salamon created Climate Awakening as a series of ongoing sharing and listening sessions that anyone can drop into virtually.
Learn more or join a virtual listening session: climateawakening.org
Climate Cafes
Climate cafes are human-centric, emotions-friendly meetings where people can safely express what they’re sensing about what the climate crisis means—not in some far-out future way, but for their own lives and loved ones. They are a relational and permission-giving space that help people work through their fears and frustrations. Search online for “your city + climate cafe” to find a climate cafe near you, or sign up for an ongoing virtual series run by the Climate Psychology Alliance here.
Conceivable Future
Drawing attention to the pressure that the climate crisis puts on reproductive decisions, and the injustice this causes for people of childbearing age today, Conceivable Future hosts “house parties” where people can express their concerns and desires about how to have kids, or not, in these times. The founders adamantly support personal choice and do not endorse any way as the “right” way to navigate reproductive decisions in the climate crisis, whether that might mean having multiple children, adopting, or refusing to reproduce.
Download the Conceivable Future “House Party How-To” and host your own gathering, or upload a testimonial about how the climate crisis is shaping your intimate decisions.
Wenn Sie sich durch die Klimakrise so deprimiert, ängstlich oder überfordert fühlen, dass Sie kaum über die Runden kommen oder Ihrer Arbeit nachgehen können, ist es vielleicht an der Zeit, einen Klimatherapeuten aufzusuchen. In den letzten Jahren hat sich eine Gruppe von Psychotherapeuten, Sozialarbeitern und Psychiatern zusammengeschlossen, um Menschen durch verschiedene Methoden und Praktiken zu helfen, mit ihrem Klimabewusstsein besser zu leben.
Diese Therapeuten sind insofern besonders, als sie den Öko-Stress einer Person niemals pathologisieren oder als Katastrophendenken abtun, während andere Therapeuten dies manchmal tun (was dazu führt, dass sich die Menschen missverstanden, entfremdet und noch viel schlimmer fühlen). Sie verstehen diesen Stress als natürliche und vernünftige Reaktion auf das, was geschieht – ein Zeichen der Verbundenheit mit der Welt und der Sorge um sie – und bieten gleichzeitig Perspektiven, Werkzeuge und Techniken zur Bewältigung.
Einige Ausgangspunkte, um klimabewusste Fachkräfte für psychische Gesundheit zu finden:
Climate Psychology Alliance Vereinigtes Königreich
Allianz für Klimapsychologie Nordamerika
Workshops & Online Learning
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“Psychotherapy and a Changing Planet: Climate Psychology” - an online course through JFK University, taught by Leslie Davenport
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Offered through Guardians Worldwide, The Healing is a 6-week course on climate change and planetary health rooted in indigenous wisdom and transitioning beyond colonial health systems.
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The Post Carbon Institute offers an online course, “Think Resilience”
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Carbon Conversations offers a number of downloadable educational resources
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The Pacific Graduate Institute offers a Certificate Program in Ecopsychology
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Climate Psychology Certificate through the California Institute of Integral Studies
Workbooks & Guidebooks on Climate-Mental Health
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All the Feelings Under the Sun by Leslie Davenport is part workbook, part emotional guide
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Emotional Resilience Toolkit for Climate Work from the Climate Therapy Alliance
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Project Inside Out provides interactive tools and resources
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The Australian Psychological Association series of helpful guides to coping with climate change
“Emotional methodologies” help people connect with and process difficult climate feelings, such as anxiety, grief, and dread, in ways that build courage, acceptance, and inner resilience. Unlike much climate-aware therapy, emotional methodologies are practices that are designed to be done in groups, and are not necessarily facilitated by a mental health professional. In each their own way, they move people past denial and emotional paralysis towards deeper understanding of their own felt responses, as well as meaningful external actions they can take.
For more on emotional methodologies, see Jo Hamilton’s 2020 PhD thesis.
Here are a couple of our favourite emotional methodologies:
TWTR is practiced around the world as a way to cultivate inner resilience, healing, and connection in collectively dark times that demand empowered action. It is based in the teachings of Joanna Macy, a renowned activist and author whose life has been dedicated to helping people tap into the interconnectedness of all living things using a mixture of modern systems theory, Indigenous, and Buddhist philosophies.
Find workshops, retreats, and study groups: workthatreconnects.org
A branch of TWTR that is focused on decolonizing the practices of TWTR to better meet the needs of communities of colour.
Read more about The Evolving Edge’s ideas and practices
Good Grief Network
GGN is an innovative peer support network for processing and integrating the uncertainty and grief that the climate and wider eco-crisis can awaken in people. Based on Alcoholics Anonymous, this group format moves participants through a 10-step program in which key topics are processed in a supportive setting, such as: “accept the uncertainty of the predicament,” “practice being with uncertainty,” and “honor my mortality and the mortality of all.”
Learn more or join a GGN 10-step group: www.goodgriefnetwork.org
Somatics
To practice somatics (from the Greek soma for “body”) is to listen to the sensations that come in through the body as a foundational language. It is a way of working with the connection of the mind and body to become aware of deeply rooted conscious and unconscious patterns, survival strategies, and modes of existence that we learn from traumatic situations. By becoming aware of these patterns embedded in our neurobiology, we can uproot and reorganize them towards justice-oriented change and liberation.
Generative Somatics
Generative Somatics, an organization that works in the service of climate and social justice, offers several kinds of trauma-informed somatic programs that engage our emotions, sensations, and physiology for individual, collective, and societal transformation.
Learn more or find programs: generativesomatics.org
Check out Ecopsychopedia
A trusted source for current research and thinking on how psychological factors drive the climate crisis, how the worsening crisis affects us psychologically, and what we can do about it.
Klimaspezifische Achtsamkeitsretreats
Klima- und Sozialaktivisten kennen Gefühle der Überforderung, Depression und Burnout. Während sich die Übel der Welt, die wir heilen wollen, oft wie ein unerbittlicher Kampf anfühlen, den wir eine Zeit lang durchstehen können, wird dieser Aufstieg irgendwann zu viel. Achtsamkeit und achtsame Meditation haben sich als wirksame Methoden erwiesen, um Erholung zu finden, indem man sich im gegenwärtigen Moment verankert. Sie erschließen Wahrheiten über die nichtdualistische Freude und das Leiden, die zu allen Zeiten Teil der Existenz sind, und zwar auf eine Weise, die seelisch nährend ist.
Plum Village
Plum Village, ein Zen-buddhistisches Retreat-Zentrum in Frankreich, das auf den Lehren des Aktivisten und spirituellen Führers Thich Nhat Hanh basiert, bietet manchmal Online-Achtsamkeits-Retreats für Aktivisten und Klimaaktivisten an. Empfohlen für Momente großer emotionaler Dramatik, Verzweiflung, Burnout, Mitgefühlsermüdung und allgemeiner Erschöpfung.
Erfahren Sie mehr oder finden Sie ein bevorstehendes Retreat: plumvillage.org/retreats
Grenzenlos in Bewegung
Die Klimakrise belastet farbige Gemeinschaften überproportional und verursacht zusätzlichen Stress zusätzlich zu der bestehenden Unterdrückung. Dies wiederum erfordert kultursensible Unterstützung. Dr. Kritee Kanko, Zen-buddhistischer Priester und leitender Wissenschaftler beim Environmental Defense Fund, veranstaltet mehrtägige Ökodharma-Retreats für farbige Menschen sowie BIPOC-Trauerkreise.
Melden Sie sich beim Kontaktformular von Boundless in Motion an, um über bevorstehende Veranstaltungen informiert zu werden: boundlessinmotion.org/contact-us
