Learning labs to navigate the ridges
and valleys of a climate-changed world
ACKNOWLEDGE EMOTIONS.
DEEPEN INNER STRENGTH.
FIND PURPOSEFUL COLLECTIVE ACTION.
Support in hard times
Climate STARR training/learning labs explore principles and practices for living in a polycrisis world where climate change and biodiversity loss affect us all. Climate STARR goes beyond graphs, predictions, and headlines. Beyond saying that action is the antidote to anxiety and despair.
At Climate Strategies for Trauma, Action, Regeneration, & Resilience, we slow down. Name and acknowledge how the multiple collective crises we’re living with impact us. Learn tools to counter overwhelm. Reflect. Explore deep resilience practices to help us remain flexible and embody a new consciousness. Envision the justice-focused regenerative future we want to live into. Identify inner and outer actions that enliven us and bring life. Commit to joining with others to serve across expanding spheres of influence. Leave renewed in body, mind, and spirit.
Up to 16 hours of continuing education credits and scholarships are available.
“It’s like 8 billion people, and most of the animals and plants have just been given a serious, maybe palliative, cancer diagnosis with the only possible cure being giving up on burning fossil fuels. And we’re just not ready to do that yet. What if part of our inability to deal with the underpinnings of the climate crisis has to do with our refusal to acknowledge the emotions of what we are feeling? In our society, we must pretend that all is well: don’t look at that scary stuff over there, let’s go for brunch. Don’t look up.”
— Joe Vipond. MD, past-President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
— Variously attributed to several individuals and a World War II resistance group
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Two Climate-Related Trainings / Learning Labs to Support Personal and Community Prepardness
Climate STARR- a 3-day training/learning lab to strengthen deep resilience practices, address eco anxiety/trauma, and find our place of service in a climate-changed world.
Collective Trauma - a 3-day training/learning lab to acknowledge and address the collective impact of living in a polycrisis world; learn ways to address trauma; strengthen deep resilience practices; and consider how you choose to live —all designed for personal and community application.
Contact us to be notified of the next online or in-person training/learning lab.
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Climate STARR and Collective Trauma Trainings/Exploration Labs
Here is what folks are saying:
‘I appreciate the space and opportunity to discuss how collective traumas overlap.”
“Communication is key, including difficult conversations that I don’t want to have.”
“HOPE IS A PRACTICE”
“There is power in intentionally envisioning and imagining the impossible.”
“The Earth’s subjugation is directly tied to the subjugation of other peoples.”
“I do feel hope.”
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Bring a Climate STARR or Collective Trauma Event to Your Organization or Community!
How can we serve your organization, group, or locale? Thinking globally, acting locally, experiencing personally - let us bring a training/learning lab to you!
Cutting-edge training/learning labs
Climate STARR and Collective Trauma are three-day training/learning labs (8 sessions online) that provide individuals, communities, and organizations who are experiencing angst and fatigue a space to pause, reflect, and gain new skills for living and leading in uncertain times. Together, we explore perspectives that strengthen hope and enhance collective resilience, resulting in regenerative service and action within our spheres of influence.
“If sustainability is the highest science, then we should look to those for answers that have a proven track record of living in one place for thousands of years without destroying its life bearing capacity. Those people, by definition, are Indigenous Peoples.”
Patricia McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining), Diné mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, and ceremonial leader