YEW - Your Emotional Wellbeing' - 6 week Resilience Programme
YEW - Your Emotional Wellbeing' - 6 week Resilience Programme
Thu, Aug 18, 2022 7:00 PM BST (+01:00)
Free
An Open Forum on Inner Resilience and Emotional Awareness
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An invitation to hear from guest speakers and explore together the feelings and perspectives connected to our changing climate.
About this event
The climate crisis is the biggest challenge we face. It can awaken a passionate sense of purpose and imagination. It can also bring up overwhelm, grief, rage, and other strong emotions. How can we understand the relationship between our inner turmoil and the outer crisis? If we were to take care of these experiences, how might they support creativity and change, both for us individually and together?
This online forum is an invitation to explore and relate to the feelings and perspectives that appear for us in relation to our changing climate. Collectively we have a lot to learn from and with each other.
4 guests speakers will present short introductions, followed by a facilitated conversation we can all take part in; welcoming views and insights from all, noticing and learning about the feelings and ideas that emerge.
There will be a space for smaller group conversations as well as participation in breakout groups to support the opportunity for you to speak, be heard and to connect.
Our Speakers:
Dr Nadine Andrews is chair of Climate Psychology Alliance Scotland, a visiting researcher at the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University, and works as a social researcher in the Scottish Government currently leading the research on Scotland's Climate Citizens' Assembly. Nadine is also a mindfulness and nature-based coach/trainer, and a qualified Mountain Leader.
Nadine will be speaking about the psychology of climate distress, and why emotion regulation matters
Conchi Piñeiro PhD is an academic, researcher, project initiator and processwork facilitator and organised open forums in the run up to COP25 also exploring emotional awareness. Conchi is founder partner of Altekio in Madrid an organisation that offers solutions from an integral perspective to the social, ecological and economic problems of communities and regions. They have generated ideas and developed projects in the worlds of environment, community development and social economy since 2008.
Conchi will be speaking about her experience working with emotional awareness and climate change at COP25 in Madrid
Charly Cox founded the Climate Change Coaches noticing how powerlessness was holding a lot of us back when it comes to climate change. Charly has been a coach for seven years, having previously built and run a creative agency in West Africa. Coaches have a big role to play in enabling our collective sense of capability and resilience, and wants more coaches to work on this problem. Charly is a professional facilitator to organisations in the green economy and teaches on the MBA programme in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University.
Charly will be speaking about working with strong emotions that appear and how to help transform these into actions.
Eva Schonveld is a climate activist, process designer and facilitator, supporting sociocratic system development, decision-making and facilitation. She worked for many years running a community arts programme with vulnerable people, eventually moving on to establish and manage an organisation supporting the Transition movement in Scotland. More recently Eva has co-founded Starter Culture and is currently working on Grassroots to Global, a project which asks: can we co-develop a more empathic, democratic, political system which could connect internationally in a global assembly to address the root causes of climate change?
Eva will be speaking about how our personal and cultural trauma plays out in the world and at the kind of collective healing that is needed to turn our situation around.
Processwork UK and Processwork Scotland are running this Open Forum as part of a series to invite a public conversation on the complex issues to do with our changing climate. The forums take place in the lead up to the COP26 climate conference that will be held in Glasgow in November 2021.
The forums will explore the relation of our changing climate with: 'Inner Resilience and Emotional Awareness', ‘Our Changing Climate and Colonisation', 'Climate Migration and Scotland's evolving identity’, and ‘Climate Justice: How do we build a fair future?'.
An Open Forum is a facilitated public conversation enabling an exchange of multiple perspectives including people and groups receiving least exposure at the collective level.
The forums will take place online (Zoom) and are free to attend. As the events are organised on a voluntary basis, we welcome donations to go towards our speakers and the running of the series.
Forum Series Schedule:
Monday 6 September, 6:45 - 9pm (BST): Inner Resilience and Emotional Awareness
Monday 11 October, 6:45 - 9pm (BST): Our Changing Climate and Colonisation
Monday 25 October, 6:45 - 9pm (BST): Climate Migration and Scotland's evolving identity
Monday 1st November, 6:45 - 9pm (GMT): Climate Justice: How do we Build a Fair Future?