Workshops, Talks, and Trainings
tailored opportunities to learn from our faculty and come together
Upcoming Events
Climate Emotional Resilience Program for Scientists and STEM Professionals
This group is designed to build solidarity and alleviate burnout for scientists, engineers, science communicators, students in the sciences and other STEM professionals involved with or aware of the technical aspects of climate change. Participants will learn to metabolize grief, anger, numbness, anxiety and despair in a community of peers-with an aim to restore joy in life and engagement in meaningful work. Thursday evenings, beginning February 20th, 5-7PM Pacific / 8-10 PM Eastern
In-Person CERI Climate Café in Boulder, CO
Join us for an in-person climate café in Boulder, offered in collaboration with Sierra Club and Sustainable Pueblo.
As we enter the new year, a coalition of dedicated organizations is coming together to uplift and empower communities. The challenges we face—overwhelming news cycles, federal inaction, and the growing urgency of the climate crisis—can make you feel discouraged and isolated. But you are not alone. We have the power to support each other through the highs and lows and build resilient communities rooted in solidarity, hope, and shared action.
That’s why we are excited to host a series of FREE Climate Cafes across the state with our partners Sierra Club and Sustainable Pueblo. Snacks and drinks will be provided. All you need to bring is yourself and your ideas and emotions.
CERI Climate Cafe
A Climate Cafe is a welcoming, inclusive, facilitated and on-off process in community, offering space to explore our personal impact in regards to this crisis and to practice deep listening to both others and ourselves. By courageously speaking up about our climate feelings, we normalize them for ourselves, but also become an active participant in breaking the collective silence. There is no other agenda, no pressure to take action, no need to bring solutions. No expectation to do or fix.
Just an open invitation to share for a while with others who also care.
CERI Climate Cafe
A Climate Cafe is a welcoming, inclusive, facilitated and on-off process in community, offering space to explore our personal impact in regards to this crisis and to practice deep listening to both others and ourselves. By courageously speaking up about our climate feelings, we normalize them for ourselves, but also become an active participant in breaking the collective silence. There is no other agenda, no pressure to take action, no need to bring solutions. No expectation to do or fix.
Just an open invitation to share for a while with others who also care.
10-step to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate
Good Grief Network's 10-Step program is a peer-to-peer support group where we can start attending to our collective wounding and traumas created by surviving in unjust systems.
In the program, we connect 2 hours each week over 10 weeks. During that time we learn to attune to one another to process our heavy and painful feelings about the state of the world, build community connections, and (re-)discover meaning and joy.
This is NOT a therapy program. We are not here to fix each other or be fixed. We practice deep listening and sharing in these spaces, not discussion.
Thicket through Bioneers
Over 8 weeks, Thicket follows the spiral of the Work That Reconnects, guiding participants through 4 modules rooted in our pillars of emotional resilience: contemplative practices, nature journeys, community support, and curated resources to explore each week. These practices are designed to help you develop the presence and resilience needed to face the unique beauty and challenges of our time.
Each module spans 2 weeks with a structured mix of contemplative practices, nature explorations, and reading and viewing resources to enrich our weekly discussions. Every Monday (11:30 am - 1 pm PT), our live Zoom gatherings offer a space for sharing insights and navigating challenges together, fostering a sense of connection and collective support.
Winter Solstice Celebration
Our faculty Mor Keshet is hosting a Winter Solstice Celebration, an immersive experience centered around renewal, nature and light. Guests will be treated to a candlelit vegetarian feast, organic wine, engage in eco-art seasonal crafting and candle making, and participate in a meaningful earth ritual. This in-person event in Huntington, NY will celebrate the longest night of the year while aligning with values of sustainability, mindfulness, and connection.
CERI Climate Cafe, December 2024
A Climate Cafe is a welcoming, inclusive, facilitated and on-off process in community, offering space to explore our personal impact in regards to this crisis and to practice deep listening to both others and ourselves. By courageously speaking up about our climate feelings, we normalize them for ourselves, but also become an active participant in breaking the collective silence. There is no other agenda, no pressure to take action, no need to bring solutions. No expectation to do or fix.
Just an open invitation to share for a while with others who also care.
CERI Climate Cafe, November 2024
A Climate Cafe is a welcoming, inclusive, facilitated and on-off process in community, offering space to explore our personal impact in regards to this crisis and to practice deep listening to both others and ourselves. By courageously speaking up about our climate feelings, we normalize them for ourselves, but also become an active participant in breaking the collective silence. There is no other agenda, no pressure to take action, no need to bring solutions. No expectation to do or fix.
Just an open invitation to share for a while with others who also care.
Thicket Fall Cohort
Thicket is an eight-week online experiential training program for medical providers, educators, activists, researchers, public servants and others confronting climate change in their work and beyond. To effectively serve others and this earth, we need to also confront our own subjective experience and feelings towards this crisis.
Rootstock Fall Cohort
Do you feel the ache of raising children within the worsening climate crisis? Do you want to inspire hope in kids, but you struggle with it yourself? Do you feel alone with your fears in a culture that doesn't welcome them? Are you searching for climate action that makes sense for your family?
Join experienced CERI Faculty and facilitators Teddy Kellam and Kristan Childs for an intimate 4-week program to explore undoing aloneness, tolerating difficult emotions, holding gratitude amidst uncertainty, and finding purpose in these times. This training is for parents, grandparents, caregivers and teachers (anyone with beloved children in their lives/working with children).
Wildfire Women's Retreat
Wildfire Women’s Retreat outside of Boulder, CO for women to come together and weave sacred space
Climate Cafe, Poetry & Art at the Climate Imaginarium on Governors Island
Join us on Governors Island for a kid-friendly afternoon of art and poetry, meditation, and a meaningful conversation on climate emotions! This event is a collaboration with Climate Cafe NYC and mental health professionals from the Climate Mental Health Network, Climate Psychology Alliance, Climate Emotional Resilience Institute, and Integrative Creative Arts Therapy.
Thicket Summer Cohort
Thicket is an eight-week online experiential training program for medical providers, educators, activists, researchers, public servants and others confronting climate change in their work and beyond. To effectively serve others and this earth, we need to also confront our own subjective experience and feelings towards this crisis.
Integrative Eco Art Therapy Summer Solstice Workshop
Integrative Eco Art Therapy Summer Solstice Workshop; Cultivating love for self and planet. In Huntington Bay, NY with faculty member Mor Keshet, embrace the Summer Solstice and Full Strawberry Moon with intention, meaning and community. Come join for eco-art making, guiding meditations, and nature offerings an a serene, private 4-acre garden
Rootstock
4 Zoom Meetings: April 24, May 1, May 8, May 15 2024
Wednesdays, 12-2 PT/ 1-3 MT/ 2-4 CT/ 3-5 ET/ 7-9 UTC
Join experienced facilitators Teddy Kellam and Kristan Childs for an intimate 4-week program to explore undoing aloneness, tolerating difficult emotions, holding gratitude amidst uncertainty, and finding purpose in these times. We’ll use a blend of soulful practices, hard-earned wisdom for parenting through climate change, evocative writing prompts, somatic exercises, heart-centered sharing, poetry, neuroscience-backed approaches and well-curated resources to build inner capacity that supports resilience in children.
Wise Parenting in Uncertain Times
Wise Parenting in Uncertain Times: How to talk with kids about the climate crisis, build your family's emotional resilience & take age-appropriate action. This workshop will provide neuroscience-backed parenting wisdom, practical tools, and a greater sense of confidence in navigating these difficult times.
Resilience for Chaotic Times: Tools to Build Adult Inner Resources
Neuroscience-supported resilience tools for grappling with uncertainty and climate change
Navigating the Emotional Impact of Climate Change with Students
Supporting teachers in understanding the emotional effects of climate change on their students.
THICKET Training
Thicket is an eight-week online experiential training program, presented by the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute, designed for medical and mental-health providers, educators, activists, researchers, public servants and others confronting climate change in their work and beyond
10 Steps to Resilience. A group for parents.
A parenting-focused 10 Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate Good Grief Network group for parents.
University Presentation
University class presentation to provide skills and tools for coping with the mental stress of climate change; specifically for students in fields where their studies & future work will intersect and be influenced by climate change
Thicket Training
This 8-week asynchronous online training; it weaves interconnecting offerings from climate psychology, neuroscience, contemplative wisdom, and group therapy.
Workshops in Georgia
Workshops with GGEN Facilitators Kristan Childs and Teddy Kellam around: (1) Supporting Emotional Resilience for Children & Youth in the Age of Climate Crisis and (2) Resilience in Chaotic Times: Building Our Inner Resources
How to Navigate the Climate Crisis with Kids
An online workshop for parents & others who care for children ages 0-18 years talking about How to Navigate the Climate Crisis with Kids
Activist Workshop
8 hour online workshop for a non-profit divided into 4 sessions over a period of 4 weeks designed for people working at the frontlines of climate change
Examples of tailored workshops, presentations and talks:
12 hour (4 sessions) experiential in-person workshop on climate emotions for public servants and activists working on climate change
This 12 hours in-person workshop divided into 4 sessions over a period of several months is designed for people working at the frontlines of climate change. The workshop combines Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects Spiral with it’s powerful connecting activities exploring concepts of climate emotions, such as grief, fear and anger, nervous system regulation, and recreating a sense of belonging within the group as well as within our wider ecosystem.
This workshop is also offered as an 8 hour (4 sessions) online version. Find an outline for this workshop here.
1 hour online Climate Psychology Presentation to University Counseling Team
This one hour experiential presentation gives a clinical introduction to climate psychology and how to work with climate distress in the counseling room. The objective of this presentation is to have clinicians identify potential mental health impacts of climate change on varies populations, learn about the principles of climate psychology, teach evidence based climate-aware interventions, familiarize/educate themselves on new nomenclature and consider and practice how all of this applies to our work with clients and our own relationship with climate emotions.
1.5 hour in-person Talk on Parenting in the Era of Climate Change
How can we help our children move forward with love, wonder, and resilience in the midst of environmental distress? This interactive talk was created to support parents navigate their own climate emotions as well as learning frameworks to engage with and support their children - to move towards strengthening a sense of internal and external activism for both parent and child.
1 hour online Presentation: Tools to address denial, anxiety, and overwhelm
This 1-hour online workshop is tailored to a group of activists and governmental workers to provide tangible mental health skills to integrate into their organizations and communities. We review trauma-informed practices to build resilient behaviors for those addressing climate challenges and emphasize contemplative-based nervous system regulation techniques that individuals could use at home or in daily interactions in the field for improved mental health and inter- and intrapersonal effectiveness.
Please contact if you’d like to inquire about an above presentation or create a tailored experience for your organization. We are happy to discuss what a presentation may look like and provide you with references from previous workshop attendee’s.
