The Climate Psychology Alliance of North America is pleased to present a webinar on the newly released Educator's Guide to Climate Emotions. Created in collaboration with youth climate leaders, researchers, mental health and education professionals, the guide offers a variety of approaches for working with climate emotions in schools and other educational settings. Co-authors Carolyn McGrath and Kate Schapira will lead the workshop, providing an opportunity to learn more about the guide, ask questions, and hear about opportunities for deeper engagement.
Presenters:
Carolyn McGrath is a visual arts teacher who has taught in New Jersey public schools for 26 years. She is also a passionate advocate for interdisciplinary climate change education that integrates justice, emotion, and action. As part of Subject to Climate's inaugural New Jersey teacher taskforce, she developed art and climate lessons for the New Jersey Climate Education Hub. She and her students' artwork about climate change have been featured in NPR, The Washington Post, The Hechinger Report, USA Today, and Grist. Carolyn is the current chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America's Educators and Counselors Committee.
Kate Schapira has been listening to people about climate change for ten years, at the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth and elsewhere. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University and is involved with local efforts toward environmental justice, climate justice and peer mental health support. The exercises in her first work of nonfiction, Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, offer actionable steps for connecting with others, identifying and activating community abundance, matching your skills with organized climate activism, and imagining a radically more livable future in order to bring it into being.