Navigating our Emotional Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate-Focused Trauma and Resiliency Training

Bi-monthly zoom meetings on Wednesdays from 9:30-11am MDT (UTC-6)

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.

Thickets provide a small ecosystem of shelter and sustenance, often surrounded by less habitable environments, and arise from the necessity of adaptation to human or naturally disturbed areas. Our Thicket arose from the work and training of two licensed psychotherapists, Eva Jahn and Elizabeth Driscoll, and their awareness of the global community’s mounting distress of climate change. In this Thicket, we utilize specific evidence-based practices in a community context of a cohort to strengthen self-regulation, emotional intelligence, and strategies to maintain our engagement with the more-than-human world. Evidence-based practices were developed through the study of most current research from environmentalists, psychology experts, and wisdom tradition holders that are listed in the acknowledgements below.

To effectively serve others and this earth, we need to also confront our own subjective experience and feelings towards this crisis. 

As Susi Moser reminds us, "Burnt-out people aren't equipped to serve a burning planet."