In this 3-week course, we slow down and take a much deeper dive. We'll explore tolerating difficult emotions, holding gratitude amidst uncertainty, undoing aloneness, and finding purpose in these times.

We’ll use a blend of grounding practices, evocative writing prompts, heart-centered sharing, poetry, neuroscience-backed approaches, and well-curated resources to build inner capacity that supports resilience in children.

These groups offer much-needed support and connection. There will be time for honest sharing and deep listening. In addition, you will take away concrete tools to use with the children in your lives, such as grounding exercises, confidence in having hard conversations, an understanding of age-appropriate climate engagement, and a path toward picking meaningful action for your family.

In this 3-week course, we slow down and take a much deeper dive. We'll explore tolerating difficult emotions, holding gratitude amidst uncertainty, undoing aloneness, and finding purpose in these times.

We’ll use a blend of grounding practices, evocative writing prompts, heart-centered sharing, poetry, neuroscience-backed approaches, and well-curated resources to build inner capacity that supports resilience in children.

These groups offer much-needed support and connection. There will be time for honest sharing and deep listening. In addition, you will take away concrete tools to use with the children in your lives, such as grounding exercises, confidence in having hard conversations, an understanding of age-appropriate climate engagement, and a path toward picking meaningful action for your family.

In this 3-week course, we slow down and take a much deeper dive. We'll explore tolerating difficult emotions, holding gratitude amidst uncertainty, undoing aloneness, and finding purpose in these times.

We’ll use a blend of grounding practices, evocative writing prompts, heart-centered sharing, poetry, neuroscience-backed approaches, and well-curated resources to build inner capacity that supports resilience in children.

These groups offer much-needed support and connection. There will be time for honest sharing and deep listening. In addition, you will take away concrete tools to use with the children in your lives, such as grounding exercises, confidence in having hard conversations, an understanding of age-appropriate climate engagement, and a path toward picking meaningful action for your family.

Looking for climate action that makes sense for your family?
As trusted adults, we want to help kids feel safe and hopeful. In the face of climate uncertainty, how do we offer a sense of security?

Do you want to inspire hope in children, but struggle with it yourself? Are you unsure how to talk to children about the climate crisis in a way that’s honest and age-appropriate? Are you wondering how to nurture resilience so they’re prepared for changes ahead?

In partnership with PEN, join CERI faculty, Kristan Childs and Teddy Kellam, for heart-centered conversations that offer guidance, tools, and support for navigating these complex questions with compassion and clarity.

Thicket is an eight-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. Join us for Nature Journeys, Contemplative Practices, Community, and Supporting Resourcing.

Thicket is an eight-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. Join us for Nature Journeys, Contemplative Practices, Community, and Supporting Resourcing.

Thicket is an eight-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. Join us for Nature Journeys, Contemplative Practices, Community, and Supporting Resourcing.

Thicket is an eight-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. Join us for Nature Journeys, Contemplative Practices, Community, and Supporting Resourcing.

As we face the terrifying realities of the unfolding ecological and sociopolitical metacrisis, how do we as mental health clinicians hold our own anguish alongside that of our clients? How do we work with various forms of climate despair in psychotherapy? And what perspectives on hope and empowerment might be useful?

The CPA-NA Clinical Support Committee is pleased to bring together a panel of visionary climate-aware therapists from varied theoretical backgrounds who have been grappling with these challenges - Kyle X. Hill, Ph.D., MPH.; Eva Jahn LPC, DIPL.SW ; and Steffi Bednarek, Ph.D. MA, BA, MBACP.

Through case vignettes and moderated discussion among the panelists, as well as break-out rooms and Q and A, we will explore what compassionate and transformative psychotherapy might look like in this liminal time.

Thicket is an eight-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. Join us for Nature Journeys, Contemplative Practices, Community, and Supporting Resourcing.

Join CERI Faculty Mor Keshet and her co-facilitators Jess Serrante, Anya Kamenetz, Sachiko Uozumi, for their opening at Climate Week in NYC for a gathering of art, reflection, and imagination on Sunday, Sept 21, 2025 from 4-7pm.

CREATIVE PRACTICES FOR IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE

We live in a time of deep rupture - ecological, political, and personal. This gathering invites us to slow down, feel, and co-create pathways toward wholeness. Together, through collaborative art, guided reflection, and embodied practices, we’ll imagine more regenerative futures.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• EXPLORE the emotions of this climate moment

• ENGAGE with Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects

• CREATE individual and collective mandalas

• CONNECT with a community imagining futures together

• OPEN space flow - come for part or all of the time

Do you feel… Overwhelmed by the constant stream of horrific climate news? Grief at seeing so much loss and destruction? Anxious about the future? Numb and detached? Frustrated at the pressure to change your lifestyle while the larger players are doing so little? Isolated because so few seem open to talking about the climate crisis?

You are invited to a Climate Cafe, where we pause our emphasis on climate action and instead safely and respectfully explore our emotional responses to the climate crisis. This can help transform our thoughts and feelings, allowing new energy and ideas to emerge.

We’re hosting a FREE Climate Café with Patagonia-Denver and CERI. Join us to share, connect, and build emotional resilience as we face the climate crisis and the state of the world. Let’s inspire each other and take steps towards hope and action. What is a Climate Café? A welcoming, non-judgmental space to talk and listen openly about climate feelings and foster hope, resilience, and positive change. Enjoy drinks & snacks and connect with like-minded community members. 

Flowers are blooming. The light is stretching longer. You're invited to a Summer Solstice Community Gathering on Sunday, June 22. A soulful evening of Eco-Art, ritual, seasonal nourishment, and deep reconnection on the five acres of native gardens where I get to do my Eco Art Therapy work everyday. This is a pay-what-you-can offering rooted in a spirit of accessibility, reciprocity, and reverence.

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.

Lately, so many of us feel off—disconnected, overwhelmed, or frozen in the face of a world that no longer makes sense. The climate crisis, social upheaval, and uncertainty about the future can leave us stuck between deep distress and the desperate urge to shut down. But what if not shutting down is actually the answer?

This event is about what to do when the usual ways of coping—pushing through, tuning out, hoping things will return to normal—just aren’t working anymore. Together, we’ll name these feelings, understand why they arise, and explore how to build emotional resilience. The goal isn’t to bypass grief, anxiety, or despair, but to expand our capacity to hold them alongside joy, awe, and connection.

Through discussion and guided practices, we’ll explore how to work with these emotions rather than ignore them—so we can move forward with greater clarity, purpose, and presence. If you’ve been feeling stuck, exhausted, or unsure of how to keep going, you’re not alone. Let’s find a way through, together.