Our next Thicket cohort starts October 8th 2025

with 5 live zoom meetings

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. 

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 Acuña Driscoll, and their awareness of the global community’s mounting distress of this climate crisis. 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.

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 discussion 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.”