Rootstock Training

Do you feel the ache of raising children within the worsening climate crisis? Do you want to inspire hope in kids, but you struggle with it yourself? Do you feel alone with your fears in a culture that doesn't welcome them? Are you searching for climate action that makes sense for your family? 

Join experienced CERI Faculty and facilitators Teddy Kellam and Kristan Childs for an intimate 4-week 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).

We’ll use a blend of soulful practices, hard-earned wisdom for parenting through climate change, evocative writing prompts, somatic exercises, heart-centered sharing, poetry, neuroscience-backed approaches and well-curated resources to build inner capacity that supports resilience in children. 

Takeaways from the training:

• skills and scripts for ongoing climate conversations with kids of all ages

• a developmental approach that meets kids by age and stage

• ideas for family-friendly activism 

• developing a focus for your own unique path in climate action 

• neuroscience-backed practices to promote emotional resilience for the future in kids

• take-home grounding exercises they can share with their children

• opportunities to metabolize climate distress and build adult resilience

Led by:

Teddy Kellam, M. Ed., Therapist, Faculty- Climate Emotional Resilience Institute, Good Grief Network facilitator, Somatic/trauma work facilitator, mother of 3

Kristan Childs, M. Ed., Faculty- Climate Emotional Resilience Institute,  Hand in Hand parenting instructor, Good Grief Network facilitator, Work that Reconnects facilitator, mother of 3