May 3, 2023, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST)/9:00 - 10:00 AM (PST)(all welcome)
Join CPA-NA's bi-monthly drop-in conversation called “Linking Conversations.”
THIS MONTH: we suggest:
How can we therapists/ climate activists, hold the complexity of there being quiet good news as well as crushingly bad news? Is there a way to be that nourishes our energy and ability to endure, even as we bear such betrayals as the Willow Project, the resumption of drilling on public lands?
The Willow Project, quoted from Katherine Hayhoe’s newsblog:
“This Monday, U.S. President Joe Biden signed off on the Willow Project, which will allow ConocoPhillips to drill some 600 million barrels from federal public lands 200 miles above the Arctic Circle in Alaska. This goes against Biden’s campaign promise: “No more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period.” It also puts the goal of the Paris Agreement at risk, as scientists have calculated that any new fossil fuel development is incompatible with a 1.5C target. However, just because the president signed off on it, doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed; on Tuesday, six environmental groups filed a lawsuit in an attempt to halt the project from going forward.”
Generally, in this bi-monthly Linking Conversation series, we will think and talk together about what’s happening in the world–such as extreme weather, political moments, and cultural flashpoints–and about linking thought and action, being and doing, the internal and external worlds. Through these conversations, we hope to create links that will help us bear the weight of climate change and find spaciousness from which to act.
The conversations are founded on the idea that to build an empathic and justice oriented response to the climate crisis, we need to support and honor those parts of being human that “link” - to our own inner lives, to the subjective experiences of others, to the collective lived experience of our communities, and to the environment in which we live and upon which we depend. In a culture that persistently attacks and disavows these links, we aim to recognize and support them.