climate resilience group
PC: Azzedine Rouichi
From despair to inspiration
this well-crafted 6 week group is designed for
companies and schools. The Climate Resilience Group is designed to support those experiencing climate distress. This includes anxiety, grief, and despair. And for those working in the environmental field who are experiencing burn-out, exhaustion, professional stress, disconnection, and overwhelm. Participants are guided through a unique series of steps that have effectively transformed distress into inspiration, connection, and clarity.
This group is for those stressed, distressed, or burnt-out by climate change or activism work. It is a well-crafted 6-week support and psychoeducation program with weekly 90 min group sessions.
The intention is for participants to transform deep suffering and despair into resilience, inspiration, and community connection. And for some, into aligned action. This occurs through learning clear tools and skills to address climate emotions. Through group and community connection. And by exploring one’s role in the movement.
This group provides education, skills, and processing around key topics including climate distress, overwhelm, and community connection. This is a safe and welcoming space for participants to share complicated emotions. Groups include guided activities and conversation, teachings around the stages of grief, tools for cultivating climate resilience, resources for connecting to the regenerative movement, and opportunities to share with one another. The final session includes ecotherapy, a guided nature-based experience.
Clients come away from this group with increased resilience, an ability to effectively process climate distress, clear tools, and a sense of deeper connection to self, purpose, and community.
Maia Kiley is a licensed psychotherapist, certified ecotherapist, and NYC regional coordinator of the Climate Psychology Alliance. Maia will be using her unique model created through personal and professional experience, work as a climate-aware therapist, and studies of climate distress.
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This optional one hour webinar, gives an overviews of the signs and symptoms of climate distress. And outlines the path of climate resilience and inner purpose. Participants receive a PDF to easily follow along and for resources.
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Guided mindfulness exercises. Stages of grief. Explore and I identify your feelings around climate change and ecological distress. Connect with others who feel the same. Release alienation, disconnection, and shame.
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Establish clear boundaries with consumption and media. Balance exercise. Inspirational examples.
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Explore your role in the movement. Handout following The Regenerative Life model. Teaching on authentic power and reclaiming agency.
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Climate resilience tools. Tips and practices. Field Guide to Climate Anxiety resource.
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Tranforming despair through expanding awareness. Hope v optimism. Joy and consciousness in activism.
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Nature resourcing. Ecotherapy session. Guided listening out exercise and nature dialogue.
