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The Hub est notre bibliothèque organisée de ressources sur le climat et la santé mentale.

Cllimte conversations

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. 

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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. 

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Learn more or join a virtual listening session: climateawakening.org

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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

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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. 

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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. 

Climate-aware theapy

If you find yourself feeling so depressed, anxious, or overwhelmed by the climate crisis that you’re struggling to stay afloat or stay in the work, it might be a great time to call a climate-aware therapist. In recent years, a conscious group of psychotherapists, social workers, and psychiatrists have come together to help people live more comfortably with their climate-awareness through diverse methods and practices. 

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These therapists are special in the sense that they will never pathologize one’s eco-distress or dismiss it as catastrophic thinking, whereas other therapists sometimes do (which ends up leaving people feeling misunderstood, alienated, and many times worse). They understand this distress to be a natural and reasonable reaction to what is happening — a sign of one’s connection to and care for the world — at the same time that they provide perspectives, tools, and techniques for coping with it. 

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Some starting places to find climate-aware mental health professionals:

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Ateliers et apprentissage en ligne

Educatinal Resources

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“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.

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Here are a couple of our favourite emotional methodologies:

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The Work That Reconnects

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

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The Evolving Edge 

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

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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

Somatique

Pratiquer la somatique (du grec soma pour « corps »), c’est écouter les sensations qui traversent le corps comme un langage fondamental. C’est une façon de travailler avec la connexion de l’esprit et du corps pour prendre conscience des schémas conscients et inconscients profondément enracinés, des stratégies de survie et des modes d’existence que nous apprenons des situations traumatisantes. En prenant conscience de ces schémas ancrés dans notre neurobiologie, nous pouvons les déraciner et les réorganiser en vue d’un changement et d’une libération axés sur la justice.

Somatique générative

Generative Somatics, une organisation qui œuvre au service de la justice climatique et sociale, propose plusieurs types de programmes somatiques axés sur les traumatismes qui engagent nos émotions, nos sensations et notre physiologie pour une transformation individuelle, collective et sociétale.

Pour en savoir plus ou trouver des programmes : generativesomatics.org

Emotional Methodologies

Découvrez Ecopsychopedia

Une source fiable de recherche et de réflexion actuelle sur la manière dont les facteurs psychologiques alimentent la crise climatique, comment l'aggravation de la crise nous affecte psychologiquement et ce que nous pouvons faire à ce sujet.

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Events & Retreats

Retraites de pleine conscience adaptées au climat

Les militants pour le climat et la justice sociale connaissent bien les sentiments d’accablement, de dépression et d’épuisement professionnel. Les maux du monde que nous nous efforçons de guérir ressemblent souvent à une bataille acharnée à laquelle nous pouvons résister pendant un certain temps, mais cette ascension finit par devenir trop difficile à supporter. Il a été prouvé que la pleine conscience et la méditation consciente sont des moyens efficaces de se ressourcer en s’enracinant dans le moment présent. Elles puisent dans les vérités sur la joie et la souffrance non dualistes qui font partie de l’existence à tout moment, d’une manière qui nourrit l’âme.

Le village des pruniers

Le Village des Pruniers, un centre de retraite bouddhiste zen en France qui s'inspire des enseignements de l'activiste et leader spirituel mondial Thich Nhat Hanh , propose parfois des retraites de pleine conscience en ligne pour les activistes et les militants pour le climat . Recommandé pour les moments de drame émotionnel intense, de désespoir, d'épuisement professionnel, de fatigue de compassion et d'épuisement général.

Pour en savoir plus ou trouver une retraite à venir : plumvillage.org/retreats

Sans limites en mouvement

La crise climatique pèse de manière disproportionnée sur les communautés de couleur et ajoute un stress supplémentaire à l’oppression existante. Cela exige à son tour un soutien culturellement sensible. Prêtre bouddhiste zen et scientifique principal à l’Environmental Defense Fund, le Dr Kritee Kanko organise des retraites d’écodharma de plusieurs jours pour les personnes de couleur, ainsi que des cercles de deuil BIPOC.

Inscrivez-vous au formulaire de contact de Boundless in Motion pour être informé des événements à venir : boundlessinmotion.org/contact-us

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