Climate change resilience workshops in Castlemaine
Posted on 27 February, 2020 by Ivan
Our fabulous Castlemaine Community House is offering a series of three workshops to assist individuals and families to develop resilience around the climate crisis. The workshops will be facilitated by Dr Susie Burke, environmental psychologist and therapist, and member of Psychology for a Safe Climate.
- Where: Castlemaine Community House, 30 Templeton St, Castlemaine VIC
- When: Please refer to times and dates for each workshop below
- Cost: $15, or $10 concession (or if booking for more than one person)
- How to book: Please book directly with Castlemaine Community House online via the website links below.
Further information regarding the workshops is available from Castlemaine Community House via their website (click here) or by telephone at (03) 5472 4842
Coping with Climate Change
Date: Wednesday 11 March 2020
Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
To book: click here
An experiential workshop to help people deal with grief and anxiety, come to terms with the climate emergency, and stay engaged in solutions.
This workshop is for anyone who is deeply concerned about the impacts of climate change on the things they love and care about, and would like to explore with others how to come to terms with the climate crisis and cope with distressing thoughts and feelings.
Participants will learn techniques for making room for uncomfortable feelings, free themselves from self-defeating thoughts and urges, cultivate a perspective of active hope, and increase their capacity to be present and focus on what matters in the context of the climate emergency.
Deep Adaptation to Climate Change
Date: Monday 23 March 2020
Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
To book: click here
A workshop to help people start to come to terms with the climate emergency, and stay engaged in solutions.
In this workshop participants will discuss and begin to work out what ‘Deep Adaptation’ could mean (and what it doesn’t). Four questions guide the work on Deep Adaptation:
- Resilience: what do we most value that we want to keep and how?
- Relinquishment: what do we need to let go of so as not to make matters worse?
- Restoration: what could we bring back to help us with these difficult times?
- Reconciliation: with what and whom shall we make peace as we awaken to our mutual mortality?
Parent Workshop – Talking with Children about Climate Change
Date: Monday 30 March 2020
Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
To book: click here
A workshop which aims to help parents think through the impact of climate change on their children, cope with that knowledge themselves, whilst at the same time supporting their children to cope with climate change now and in the future.
By attending this workshop participants will be able to:
- Think through how they, as parents, can respond to the current reality of climate change and the threat of worse impacts to come.
- Learn strategies for coping with the ‘uncomfortable truths’ of climate change
- Gather ideas about how to support their children to cope with it.
- Learn about the skills and capacities that our children, the next generation, will need for engaging in efforts to restore a safe climate, and for adapting to the inevitable changes ahead.
Facilitator: Dr Susie Burke PhD FAPS
Dr Susie Burke is an environmental psychologist, therapist, climate change campaigner and parent, currently working in private practice in Castlemaine. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, and author of the Climate Change Empowerment Handbook and other articles and resources on the psychology of climate change. She consults, and runs workshops and individual sessions to help people cope with and come to terms with climate change, with a particular interest in how to raise children in and for a climate altered world.
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