Our next Thicket cohort starts June 26, 2024

with 5 live zoom meetings: Wednesdays 9:30am - 11am MDT (6/26, 7/10, 7/24, 8/7, 8/21)

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. 

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

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. 

Every module will provide offerings from our pillars of emotional resilience:  contemplative practices, nature journey, community support and resources to read, watch, and engage with during our weekly circles. By engaging in these practices, Thicket offers an experiential program to develop the capacity to be more fully present with the unique beauty and challenges of our time. Welcome to Thicket. 

As philosopher Dr. Bayo Akomolafe reminds us: “The times are urgent; let us slow down.”