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If you are new to the organization or want to touch base to learn more about how to get involved, please join us for an informal gathering where we can all meet each other, ask questions and share ideas about how to get involved in CPA-NA!

Hosted by CPA-NA Co-Presidents Barbara Easterlin, Ph.D., and Rebecca Weston, LCSW, JD

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

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Join CPA-NA's bi-monthly drop-in conversation called “Linking Conversations.”

THIS MEETING:

Making Sense of Ourselves and Our Work within the Context of an Emerging and Unstable Paradigm:

All relationships hold the potential for deepening a sense of separation or connection. As events continue to challenge our most familiar and foundational paradigms, our professional and personal relationships also become more complex, and sometimes divisive. Many of us grapple with how to maintain ethical, informed and compassionate interactions without colluding, avoiding or being inadvertently complicit with values and activities that do harm. 

Many questions arise in the territory beyond the cultural programming of Modernity: 

How do we stay in relationship even when there is difference?  How do we engage in inclusive conversations rather than debates, while also maintaining our unique voices?  Where do you find yourself getting lost or uncertain as the paradigm shifts? What are particular triggers that close you down, send you spinning or unleash anger? Where have you found ways to navigate differences skillfully and/or to a satisfactory end?

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 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.

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Please join us on February 29 at 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific for the 2nd event in our Planting Our Future Speaker’s Series - an exciting and inspiring presentation by Molly Kawahata on how we can leverage psychological tools, neuroscience, and climate science to generate an enthusiastic social movement for a low carbonfuture.

Molly is a strategist, public speaker, advocate, and former Climate Advisor at the Obama White House. She is the Founder of Systemic Impact Strategies, a consultancy specializing in organizational development, climate strategy, and communications.

Her life story, depicted in Patagonia's film, THE SCALE OF HOPE (2022), intimately explores her pursuit of climbing steep ice faces in Alaska, her personal struggle with mental health, and her work to transform societal narratives by infusing them with hope and empowerment. The film has resonated with audiences worldwide, amassing over one million views on YouTube, streaming on Delta Airlines, and being inducted into the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Molly has been asked to speak at institutions such as Google, Nike, Harvard, the U.S. Congress, global IMAX audiences, and the Kennedy Center presidential monument. She is an Advisory Board Member to the Environmental Voter Project and an Advisory Council Member to the AAPI Victory Fund. In her free time, Molly is an avid ice climber, with a particular passion for scaling technical ice routes in Montana and the Central Alaska Range. An introduction to the film can be viewed here. We encourage everyone to view THE SCALE OF HOPE and be inspired by Molly’s vision and plan for a just and fossil free future.

This virtual 1 hour event will take place February 29th at 8:00 p.m. ET, with tickets available at four different levels (seed, sprout, branch and tree) from $35 - $100, with a limited number of further reduced rate tickets available on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Colleen Rollins is leading on a project involving a free, public, online information source on climate psychology and its mental health implications

A Gates Cambridge Scholar is leading a new project to launch a public, online information hub on the intersection between climate change and mental health.

Colleen Rollins [2017], editorial and project manager at the Climate Psychiatry Alliance, is working on the Ecopsychepedia (“EcoPsy”) project which will be launched at a webinar at the end of the month.

EcoPsy is a free, public, online information source on climate psychology and its mental health implications, created by an international group of mental health professionals and climate communication experts.

The aim is to enable healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, policy-makers, students of all ages, community leaders and general readers to learn more and share knowledge about how the ecological(eco), the psychological(psyche) and societies impact one another – and, critically, how we can respond.

The webinar on 29th February is co-hosted by the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and Climate Psychology Alliance of North America.

The webinar will be recorded and available after the event. Colleen did her PhD in Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.

*The webinar takes place on February 29th, 9am PT | 12pm ET | 5pm GMT| 6pm CET.

REGISTER HERE

**Picture credit: John Dinan/J P Treggett and Wikimedia commons.

East Coast, February 7th, 7:30PM - 8:30PM (EST)

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West Coast, February 7th, 7:30PM - 8:30pm (PST)

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Join CPA-NA's bi-monthly drop-in conversation called “Linking Conversations.”

THIS MEETING:

Making Sense of Ourselves and Our Work within the Context of an Emerging and Unstable Paradigm:

All relationships hold the potential for deepening a sense of separation or connection. As events continue to challenge our most familiar and foundational paradigms, our professional and personal relationships also become more complex, and sometimes divisive. Many of us grapple with how to maintain ethical, informed and compassionate interactions without colluding, avoiding or being inadvertently complicit with values and activities that do harm. 

Many questions arise in the territory beyond the cultural programming of Modernity: 

How do we stay in relationship even when there is difference?  How do we engage in inclusive conversations rather than debates, while also maintaining our unique voices?  Where do you find yourself getting lost or uncertain as the paradigm shifts? What are particular triggers that close you down, send you spinning or unleash anger? Where have you found ways to navigate differences skillfully and/or to a satisfactory end?

——-

 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.

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Join us for an interactive event to learn more about parenting in the climate crisis. How can parents help their children navigate the emotional and physical impacts of the climate crisis? How can parents take care of themselves while also caring for their children? Connect with other interested parents and experts in this space. Closed captioning will be available. The session will be recorded for those who cannot join live.

Speakers: Anya Kamenetz, Climate Mental Health Network Elizabeth Bechard, Moms Clean Air Force, Liz Hurtado, Moms Clean Air Force and EcoMadres Jenni Silverstein, Climate Psychology Alliance

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As the first in our Planting the Future Fundraiser Speaker Series, we are proud to host Bill McKibben in a conversation entitled “Keeping Planet, Country, Heart and Soul Together.”

Bill is not only one of the most consistent and steady voices for radical and innovative climate policy, but one of the most prolific and most wide ranging in his perspective.  Never one to lose sight of movement building, he thinks strategically, forges connections, builds organizations and in countless ways, makes it possible for so many people to find their way into climate action.  We are excited to hear his perspective and grateful for his generosity of time and energy.  

This virtual 1 hour event will take place on January 24th at 7:30pm ET, with tickets available at four different levels (seed, sprout, branch and tree) from $35-$100, with a limited number of further reduced rate tickets available on a first-come-first-serve basis.

At the $100 level, we will be able to provide a special gift for attendees to enjoy after the experience. As CPA-NA is a registered 501(c)3, your ticket will be tax deductible!

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If you are new to the organization or want to touch base to learn more about how to get involved, please join us for an informal gathering where we can all meet each other, ask questions and share ideas about how to get involved in CPA-NA!

Hosted by CPA-NA Co-Presidents Barbara Easterlin, Ph.D., and Rebecca Weston, LCSW, JD

Register Here

January 3, 2024 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.”

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.

Winter Solstice: Gratitude and Celebration

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Whether you just joined or you are a longstanding member or former member wanting to come on in, we welcome you all to our third annual Winter Solstice Gathering for Gratitude and Celebration!

It’s been a year of tremendous growth and capacity building, even as it’s also been a year of complex highs and dreadful lows around the globe.  We’ve seen so many new faces and honored some hard good-byes. A day that acknowledges the dark that leans into light.

We’d love to gather to offer thanks, joy and visions for our future! Feel free to show up with a poem, a story, a drink, a laugh!

East Coast, December 6th, 7:30PM - 8:30PM (EST)

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West Coast, December 6th, 7:30PM - 8:30pm (PST)

Register Here

Join CPA-NA's bi-monthly drop-in conversation called “Linking Conversations.”

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.

Led by active members of the Social Justice committee, we are sponsoring a members-only workshop at three different times, in the hopes that we can gain as wide participation as possible.

Register for Session III here

CPA-NA  demographics indicate that our membership is predominantly white (92%), cis-gendered female (78%) and between the ages of 35 - 65 (67%). This raises very important questions, given that people of color are much more likely to be impacted by climate change. Climate-aware practitioners have a responsibility to disrupt and challenge this inequity and racism, and serve the most impacted. 

What does this gap in our demographics tell us about our organization’s positionality?  About its strengths and limitations? 

In an upcoming workshop, we invite participants to explore how our organizational culture intersects with the mental health profession, the climate and environmental justice movements, and the larger culture. We’ll consider:

• How do we examine and disrupt our internalized biases and how they show up in our organization, mindset, bodies, and therapeutic spaces?

• Why and how to decolonize the budding field of climate psychology. If climate-aware therapy is to support vulnerable and marginalized people, how are we protecting them and in solidarity? 

As climate aware clinicians, we strongly encourage every member to join us for a reflective exploration of diversity and equity within CPA-NA and how we can stand up for marginalized communities. Join us at one of these three sessions.

Led by active members of the Social Justice committee, we are sponsoring a members-only workshop at three different times, in the hopes that we can gain as wide participation as possible.

Register Here for Workshop II

CPA-NA  demographics indicate that our membership is predominantly white (92%), cis-gendered female (78%) and between the ages of 35 - 65 (67%). This raises very important questions, given that people of color are much more likely to be impacted by climate change. Climate-aware practitioners have a responsibility to disrupt and challenge this inequity and racism, and serve the most impacted. 

What does this gap in our demographics tell us about our organization’s positionality?  About its strengths and limitations? 

In an upcoming workshop, we invite participants to explore how our organizational culture intersects with the mental health profession, the climate and environmental justice movements, and the larger culture. We’ll consider:

• How do we examine and disrupt our internalized biases and how they show up in our organization, mindset, bodies, and therapeutic spaces?

• Why and how to decolonize the budding field of climate psychology. If climate-aware therapy is to support vulnerable and marginalized people, how are we protecting them and in solidarity? 

As climate aware clinicians, we strongly encourage every member to join us for a reflective exploration of diversity and equity within CPA-NA and how we can stand up for marginalized communities. Join us at one of these three sessions.

Led by active members of the Social Justice committee, we are sponsoring a members-only workshop at three different times, in the hopes that we can gain as wide participation as possible.

Register Here for November 9th workshop

CPA-NA  demographics indicate that our membership is predominantly white (92%), cis-gendered female (78%) and between the ages of 35 - 65 (67%). This raises very important questions, given that people of color are much more likely to be impacted by climate change. Climate-aware practitioners have a responsibility to disrupt and challenge this inequity and racism, and serve the most impacted. 

What does this gap in our demographics tell us about our organization’s positionality?  About its strengths and limitations? 

In an upcoming workshop, we invite participants to explore how our organizational culture intersects with the mental health profession, the climate and environmental justice movements, and the larger culture. We’ll consider:

• How do we examine and disrupt our internalized biases and how they show up in our organization, mindset, bodies, and therapeutic spaces?

• Why and how to decolonize the budding field of climate psychology. If climate-aware therapy is to support vulnerable and marginalized people, how are we protecting them and in solidarity? 

As climate aware clinicians, we strongly encourage every member to join us for a reflective exploration of diversity and equity within CPA-NA and how we can stand up for marginalized communities. Join us at one of these three sessions.

Register Here

As more people wake up to the reality of the climate crisis and environmental injustices, growing levels of distress, including suicidal thoughts and behaviors, have been reported. To meet the challenges of these urgent psychological needs, climate-aware therapists can benefit from incorporating useful distress tolerance skills into their repertoire of interventions. In this presentation sponsored by the Clinical Support Subcommittee of CPA-NA, DBT trainer Jesse Homan will describe the ways DBT can be an extremely effective approach for people who are high risk for suicide and other life-threatening behaviors and will focus on the role that pervasive experiences of invalidation between a person and their environment can contribute to such behaviors. Theory, strategies, case presentations, and discussion will be included.

Date & Time: November 4 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm (Eastern), 9:00am - 10:30am (Pacific)

CPA-NA Members: FREE

Suggested donation $20 or what you can afford. Donations help support CPA-NA.

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Facilitator:

Jesse Homan Ph.D., LPC is the founder of Queen City Psychotherapy, LLC. He completed his doctoral studies in Social Work at Portland State University. He began working as a DBT therapist in 2009. He currently is a trainer, consultant, and supervisor for the Treatment Implementation Collaborative. He has had the opportunity to implement DBT in a wide variety of settings including outpatient, residential, substance abuse treatment centers, high schools, forensic hospitals, and juvenile justice systems. Jesse also volunteers as an adherence coder for the Linehan Board of Certification. He previously worked as an adherence coder for the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington and has worked on multiple DBT studies. Jesse has coauthored research presentations and clinical workshops that have been presented at the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of DBT. He has co-authored chapters on establishing DBT training and supervision programs as well as implementing DBT in juvenile justice settings. Jesse is a member of CPA-NA and helps head the Expressive Arts Subcommittee.

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In collaboration with the Climate Mental Health Network and the Climate Psychology Alliance, the COP² North American Regional Dialogue, November 3, 2:00pm - 3:30pm Eastern Time, will be a chance to reconnect with your Hub since our last round of Dialogues in October 2022, and to give your input to the COP² Roadmap in anticipation of COP28.

COP² is working with the UN High-Level Champions Office Race to Resilience (R2R) to enable R2R partners to incorporate an additional goal to their already massive climate adaptation efforts: to build capacity for psychological resilience and strengthening. The “Roadmap” document describes the key elements for this approach, and will be launched at COP28 after input is incorporated from the Regional Dialogues. Please review the attached abstract to get a feel for the Roadmap.

During the Regional Dialogue discussions, a moderator will guide each group through a number of questions to make sure we are integrating your feedback on e.g. the overall aims and framework for the Roadmap, suggestions for best practice on how to support mental health at scale in the community, metrics for success, and issues important to your region. Please find the agenda for your Regional Dialogue attached here. 

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If you are new to the organization or want to touch base to learn more about how to get involved, please join us for an informal gathering where we can all meet each other, ask questions and share ideas about how to get involved in CPA-NA!

Hosted by CPA-NA Co-Presidents Barbara Easterlin, Ph.D., and Rebecca Weston, LCSW, JD

Register Here

January 1, 2024 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.”

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.

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How can we move through times of overwhelm and crisis, when it feels like we can’t find any space inside? How can we learn to be present with eco-anxiety and other strong emotions rather than running from them or drowning in them? How can we support others to do the same?

In this session, we’ll learn powerful practices of staying rooted and grounded in the midst of life’s storms by listening to the wisdom of the body. We will become more intimate with our emotions and how to care for them in our body. Through intentional, somatic practices like belly breathing and walking mindfully, we will discover how to return to the reality, and safety, of the present moment and stay connected to the earth in full awareness. We will explore the relationship between slowing down to heal ourselves and slowing down to heal our planet.  Engaging powerful teachings from Buddhist Psychology on how our minds function, we will also do a deep dive into how to fully meet and soothe anxiety, anger, and grief in these challenging times of climate and social upheaval.  We will move toward insight and gradual transformation of habit patterns so that we are freed up to respond with trust and courageous vulnerability to the aching needs of our world. 

Date & Time: October 11 at 7:30pm - 9:00pm (Eastern), 4:30pm - 6:00pm (Pacific)

Members: $30 | Non-Members: $40

A limited number of hardship rates of $20. are available.

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Facilitator:

Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on activists, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption from Parallax Press. Her teachings and writings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.

East Coast, October 4th, 7:30PM - 8:30PM (EST)

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West Coast, October 4th, 7:30PM - 8:30pm (PST)

Register Here

Join CPA-NA's bi-monthly drop-in conversation called “Linking Conversations.”

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.

Register Here

CPA-NA is happy to announce our 2nd offering in the CPA-NA Film Series: A Conversation with Filmmaker Michael Shaw. 

Michael's award-winning film Living in the Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning within it. The film reflects what emerges when, upon recognizing the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, this independent filmmaker sells his house to travel around the world looking for answers. Pretty soon we begin to see how deep the predicament goes along with the systems and ways of thinking that brought us here. You can watch a trailer for the film (featuring Jem Bendell and Dahr Jamail) HERE.

CPA-NA hosts A Conversation with Filmmaker Michael Shaw on:  

Friday, September 22 at 7:00 - 8:30pm (Eastern), 4:00 - 5:30pm (Pacific) / 5:00 - 6:30pm (Mountain) / 6:00 - 7:30pm (Central)

in Australia (where Michael is located): Sat., Sept. 23 / 9:00-10:30 (AEST). 

Registration for this gathering is $10 for CPA members. $15 for non-members.

To receive the link for the conversation, please Register Here

Participants are asked to watch the film at their own discretion prior to the event. 

The film is available online at no cost HERE.  

Discussant:

Michael Shaw is an independent film maker and this is his first feature documentary. He has interviewed various experts on climate change for his You Tube Channel and hosted a community radio show on the issue. Michael is a fully qualified teacher and therapist having run anti-bullying programs in schools for more than a decade. Micheal is currently working on a new follow up documentary, climate support groups and ongoing interviews.

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If you are new to the organization or want to touch base to learn more about how to get involved, please join us for an informal gathering where we can all meet each other, ask questions and share ideas about how to get involved in CPA-NA!

Hosted by CPA-NA Co-Presidents Barbara Easterlin, Ph.D., and Rebecca Weston, LCSW, JD