Programs, Trainings & Events
Building Inner Strength for Outer Change.
Caring for Ourselves So We Can Continue to Care for the Planet.
Our Programs
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CERI Climate Cafés
A Climate Cafe is a welcoming, inclusive, facilitated space to explore the impacts of climate change together. By 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. Just an open invitation to share for a while with others who also care.
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Restoring Resilience - River Retreat
When was the last time you truly allowed yourself the gift of pause? Join us on the Green River in Utah for our upcoming Canoe River Retreat. 7 days in a remote canyon setting, 45 miles of flat water paddling, and the chance to plant our feet firmly in the ancient landscape. We will be rekindling our connection to the world and embracing the resilience that lies within.
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Rootstock Training
An intimate 4-week online 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).
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Thicket Resourcing
Feeling untethered? Looking to reconnect with what truly sustains you? Hoping to reconnect to (or start) your contemplative practice? Check out our new Thicket Resourcing 4 week online course, adapted from our well-known Thicket training - designed to help you restore your resilience through nature-based practices, live community sessions, and contemplative practices.
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Thicket Training
Thicket is an 8-week online experiential training program for medical and mental health providers, educators, activists, researchers, public servants and others confronting this polycrisis 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. As Susi Moser reminds us, "Burnt-out people aren't equipped to serve a burning planet."
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Wild Matriarchs
A 5-week femme-embodied process group for the matriarchs: the female-identifying leaders, visionaries, change makers, circle holders, and way-showers who are called to lead, heal, and nurture themselves, their communities, their place, and planet.
Upcoming Events
Whether you’re organizing in your community, working in climate justice, navigating eco-anxiety, or simply feeling the weight of the world—CERI is here to support you. Join us to reconnect with yourself, with others, and with the Earth. Because how we care, rest, and feel is part of how we change the world.
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.
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.
