Description:
OPD Points: 5
This workshop will enable participants to develop knowledge and skills to support people who experience eco-distress or eco-anxiety.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
PD3: Being present with climate distress – Applications to professional practice is the final workshop in the Climate Aware Practitioners Professional Development series.
This third workshop will involve deepening the practitioner’s capacity for presence, and an evidence-informed understanding of the presenting issues and their impact on mental health. PSC’s evidence informed support model will be explored in greater depth and applications to presenting issues considered.
Presenter / Provider:
Dr Beth Hill
Dr Charles Le Feuvre
Carol-Ann Allen
Presenter Qualifications:
Beth has a PhD in Anthropology researching the cultural and psychological dimensions of climate change, in particular how communities come to terms with what climate change means in their daily lives. Beth trained with Joanna Macy in the Work that Reconnects. She facilitates workshops drawing on this approach, as well deep ecology, mindfulness and creative processes involving art and writing.
Charles is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice in Melbourne. He has been a Consultant Psychiatrist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and Chair of The Section of Psychotherapy of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He has been interested in psychosocial perspectives on the natural environment and climate change for many years and joined PSC over ten years ago. He has facilitated PSC workshops and written and spoken about the climate and ecological crisis for PSC.
Carol-Ann is a Psychotherapist in private practice in Melbourne with more than 20 years’ experience working with individuals, couples and families. She has an MA in Counselling Psychology (USA) and is a Clinical Member of PACFA and of the Australian College of Relationship Counsellors. She is also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California, USA).
Start / End Date
Course Duration:
Course Hours:
3 hours
Registration Instructions:
PSC members get 20% off the cost of registration by adding the member discount code at the checkout.
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