CERT RESILIENCE WORKSHOP

Exploring Climate Emotions and Collective Healing through Group Process and Training

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This workshop is for anyone who has been curious about our 8 week CERT training but is not ready to commit. For any former Thicket participants who would like to come back to the practices. For anyone who is craving a moment of pause, practice and reflection in a group setting. 

As we are all living in a time of accelerating ecological and social disruption, building emotional resilience is now foundational to our ability to stay engaged, connected, and effective in our work and lives. This 3-hour experiential workshop, offered through the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute, is an adaptation of our 8-week Climate Emotional Resilience Training (formerly Thicket). It offers a condensed yet meaningful entry point into the core practices and frameworks of CERT that support emotional resilience in the face of the Polycrisis.

In our model, we talk about 3 distinct capacities that need to be cultivated for an expanded view of resilience:

3 capacities for emotional resilience

Internal capacity

Embodied self-regulation strengthens our ability to regulate our own nervous systems through grounding, breath, and somatic awareness. These practices help us move out of survival states and into greater flexibility, presence, and inner spaciousness so we can stay with grief, uncertainty, and complexity without becoming overwhelmed.

Collective Capacity

Co-regulation builds the capacity to regulate with other humans  through connection, presence, and shared experience. By engaging in dialogue and community, we activate our innate systems of co-regulation, reducing isolation and allowing resilience to emerge between us, not just within us.

More-than-human capacity

Ecological belonging reconnects us with the regulating and restorative relationship between ourselves and the more-than-human world. Through practices of kinship, reciprocity, and nature connection, we expand resilience beyond the individual and into a relational, ecological field of support that includes land, waters, and all living beings.

CERT Resilience Workshop

Sunday September 13th 2026

8-12pm PT/9-12pm MT/ 10-1pm CT/ 11-2pm ET

Facilitators: Elizabeth Acuña Driscoll and  Eva Jahn
Pricing: $75-$105

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This workshop invites participants into an embodied and relational learning experience where we will be practicing these capacities. Drawing from climate psychology, neuroscience, and the Work That Reconnects, we will move through the spiral offering a mix of contemplative practice, nature connection, teaching, experiential activities and group process. 

Participants will leave with practical practices they can integrate into their personal and professional lives, as well as a renewed sense of connection with self and the wider spaces. 

The Facilitators

Elizabeth and Eva created the CERT course in 2019 and have facilitated many cohorts and variations of the course since then.

  • Co-Founder of CERI, Psychotherapist, and long-term group facilitator

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  • Executive Director of CERI, Psychotherapist, and long-term Group Facilitator.

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Testimonials

  • "As an activist working on the climate crisis, my mental health often was put on hold in the face of the urgency of the crises we are facing. The Thicket course helped me to slow down, and take seriously the need to better take care of my mental health. It provided useful tools, strategies and techniques, which will strengthen my well being and, by doing so, my activism too.

    Alex - South Africa Climate Justice Campaigner at 350.org, South Africa

  • "Thicket helped me to connect deeply with myself, my fellow human beings, and the Earth. Through participating in this group, I feel better able to hold my emotions related to climate change and I know what I can do to manage those emotions if they become overwhelming."

    Allegra - Clinical psychology student and researcher on climate change anxiety, Canada

  • "Thicket Training was an opportunity to strengthen my internal resilience in a safe space to express my emotions and have support for my own practice. "

    Nathalia - WTR facilitator, Brazil

  • "My work as an end-of-life doula means I'm navigating vulnerable spaces around grief and loss on a regular basis. But I find that being in a supportive role often means I'm doing less to track my own grief experiences. This is especially true when it comes to personal grief related to climate change, ecosystem collapse, etc. The Thicket course was so valuable in that it offered both a container and an outlet for me to learn about and be in creative dialogue with the various faces of my own grief. The content is dynamic, embodied, and is curated in such a way that all parts of you feel tended to and incorporated into the experience. I truly wish everyone could be gifted this sacred and thoughtful opportunity."

    Elizabeth, End-Of-Life Doula and ED of the Peaceful Presence Project, USA

  • “Eva and Elizabeth model a groundedness and open-heartedness that invited the same from me. I felt safe, understood, appreciated, seen -- with all the shades of feeling and experience I shared with the group.”ist Item

    P - Psychotherapist, USA

  • “Thicket gave me the tools and mindset needed to stay calm and engaged in climate action. I expect I will repeat many of the nature-based exercises in particular as a way to slow down and really appreciate my surroundings.”

    Stephanie - Environmental education program manager, USA