Resources
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O Hub é nossa biblioteca selecionada de recursos sobre saúde mental e climática.
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.
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.
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.
Some starting places to find climate-aware mental health professionals:
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Climate Psychology Alliance United Kingdom
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Climate Psychology Alliance North America
Workshops e Aprendizagem Online
Zen e a Arte de Salvar o Planeta, curso online de 7 semanas pela Plum Village
“Psicoterapia e um Planeta em Mudança: Psicologia Climática” - um curso online pela Universidade JFK, ministrado por Leslie Davenport
Psicologia da Resiliência Profunda; Abordando a Ecoansiedade e o Estresse Climático para o Bem-estar Individual, Social e Ecológico oferecido pela Iniciativa Loka na Universidade de Wisconsin.
Oferecido pela Guardians Worldwide, The Healing é um curso de 6 semanas sobre mudanças climáticas e saúde planetária enraizado na sabedoria indígena e na transição para além dos sistemas de saúde coloniais.
O Post Carbon Institute oferece um curso online, “Pense em Resiliência”
Carbon Conversations oferece uma série de recursos educacionais para download
O Pacific Graduate Institute oferece um programa de certificação em ecopsicologia
Certificado em Psicologia Climática através do Instituto de Estudos Integrais da Califórnia
Cadernos de exercícios e guias sobre saúde mental e climática
All the Feelings Under the Sun de Leslie Davenport é parte livro de exercícios, parte guia emocional
Kit de ferramentas de resiliência emocional para trabalho climático da Climate Therapy Alliance
O kit de ferramentas existencial para educadores de justiça climática
Projeto De Dentro Para Fora fornece ferramentas e recursos interativos
Série de guias úteis da Associação Psicológica Australiana para lidar com as mudanças climáticas
Media & Storytelling
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Good Energy Stories Playbook is an open-source digital guide to portraying climate change on-screen, including story inspiration, cheat sheets, character profiles, solutions, and projections into the future.
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Climate Spring's Storytelling Guide provides insights into the climate stories we need to shift narratives from apocalypse to regeneration.
“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
A gentle, nurturing program that helps people heal from stress and anxiety. It uses story, self massage, and mindfulness and the wisdom of nature.
Learn more about their programs here
Confira a Ecopsicopedia
Uma fonte confiável de pesquisas e reflexões atuais sobre como os fatores psicológicos impulsionam a crise climática, como o agravamento da crise nos afeta psicologicamente e o que podemos fazer a respeito.
Retiros de atenção plena específicos para o clima
Ativistas do clima e da justiça social não são estranhos a sentimentos de sobrecarga, depressão e esgotamento. Embora os males do mundo que trabalhamos para curar muitas vezes pareçam uma batalha implacável e difícil que podemos suportar por um tempo, eventualmente essa escalada se torna insuportável. A atenção plena e a meditação consciente provaram ser maneiras eficazes de encontrar restauração ao se aterrar no momento presente. Elas exploram verdades sobre a alegria e o sofrimento não dualistas que fazem parte da existência em todos os momentos, de maneiras que são nutritivas para a alma.
Vila das ameixas
Plum Village, um centro de retiro budista zen na França que tem raízes nos ensinamentos do ativista e líder espiritual global Thich Nhat Hanh , às vezes oferece retiros de mindfulness online para ativistas e ativistas climáticos . Recomendado para momentos de alto drama emocional, desespero, esgotamento, fadiga de compaixão e exaustão geral.
Saiba mais ou encontre um retiro futuro: plumvillage.org/retreats
Sem limites em movimento
A crise climática sobrecarrega desproporcionalmente comunidades de cor e acrescenta mais estresse à opressão existente. Isso, por sua vez, exige apoio culturalmente sensível. O sacerdote budista zen e cientista sênior do Environmental Defense Fund, Dr. Kritee Kanko, organiza retiros de ecodharma de vários dias para pessoas de cor, bem como círculos de luto BIPOC.
Inscreva-se no formulário de contato do Boundless in Motion para ser avisado sobre os próximos eventos: boundlessinmotion.org/contact-us
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