The final workshop in our Climate Aware Practitioners Professional Development series will enable participants to develop knowledge and skills to support people who experience eco-distress or eco-anxiety.This 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.
PD3: Being present with climate distress: Applications to professional practice
Description:
OPD Points: 5
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
All events are via Zoom (AEST or AEDT – Melbourne time).
Presenter / Provider:
Psychology for a Safe Climate
Presenter Qualifications:
PSC’s regular facilitators include:Libby Skeels is a Registered psychologist with over thirty years of experience counselling individuals and couples with relationship difficulties. In addition to her degrees in Psychology and counselling she has a Masters degree in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. For the past 14 years she has been involved in several climate action groups.Dr Charles Le Feuvre 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 he facilitates PSC workshops and writes and speaks about the climate and ecological crisis for PSC.Carol-Ann Allan 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).Dr Beth Hill 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.
Contact:
- PSC Administration and Office Manager
- Please email for enquiries
- info@psychologyforasafeclimate.org