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We're teaming up with the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America to offer a workshop that will support participants in developing the confidence to facilitate their own climate café. In addition to increasing capacity for climate cafés across Michigan, we are looking for 4 more Climate Conversation Facilitators to volunteer during our art build at the 2024 Michigan Climate Summit in Ann Arbor on Thursday, September 26th. We're happy to offer this training at a highly discounted rate (+free registration to the summit and more) for those who can commit to volunteer with us.

The workshop will include:

• An explication of the psycho-social principles on which climate cafes are based
• A short experiential climate cafe
• Suggestions of a toolkit of practical resources
• A discussion of practical aspects of organizing and facilitating

As the present and ongoing threat of the climate and environmental emergency becomes increasingly evident, we will need to find ways to process and bear the many complex and dysregulating emotional responses that emerge. Working with difficult emotions, rather than turning away, can facilitate learning new ways of being and foster capacities for engagement. Sharing thoughts, feelings, and experiences with others can additionally help build an essential sense of community, as well as greater emotional resilience.

While specifically not a clinical encounter, a climate cafe creates a simple, reflective, empathetic space where fears and uncertainties about the climate crisis can be safely expressed and held. There are no guest speakers or lectures at these cafes; advice and action are not the focus. Based on the model of death cafes, climate cafes have been utilized, increasingly, to help a variety of individuals and communities find ways to face and hold the unsettling realities of the planetary crisis.

This workshop will support participants in developing the confidence to facilitate their own climate cafe. It will include an explication of the psycho-social principles on which climate cafes are based, provide a short experiential climate café, suggest a toolkit of practical resources, and incorporate discussions on practical aspects of organizing and facilitating.

Presenters:
Wendy Greenspun, Ph.D., a New York State licensed clinical psychologist and certified psychoanalyst in private practice in Greenwich Village in New York City. She serves on the board and steering committee for the Climate Psycholgy Alliance and heads the Clinical Consultation and Climate Cafe Committee.

Donna McClurkan, Kalamazoo, MI is a longtime contributor to MiCAN and brings experience through her work as an end-of-life doula. Her passions include local food, pollinator habitat gardening, and visiting schools, libraries, and hospices with her certified therapy dog, Stormy.

For questions about this event, please contact MiCAN's Digital Community Manager, Serena Amdur at [email protected]

HEALTHCARE DISCLAIMER REGARDING EXPERIENTIAL COMPONENTS OF WORKSHOPS OFFERED BY THE CLIMATE PSYCHOLOGY ALLIANCE-NORTH AMERICA AND THE MICHIGAN CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK

This workshop will include experiential components in which participants will work in a group format to discuss their thoughts and feelings, facilitated by the workshop leader. Although the leader may be a licensed mental health professional, these group experiences are not therapy groups, and the facilitator will not engage in rendering any psychotherapeutic or healthcare advice, or advice of any kind for any individual or for their particular situation.

The Climate Psychology Alliance-North America and Michigan Climate Action Network do not provide medical, mental health or any other type of healthcare service. No diagnosis or treatment of, or advice regarding, any medical or mental health condition or illness of any participant can or will be offered. Participation in our workshops cannot substitute for, and is not an alternative to, medical or other healthcare diagnosis and treatment when a medical or mental health condition or illness is present. Participants are advised to seek diagnosis, treatment and advice regarding medical or mental health conditions or illnesses from physicians, psychotherapists and other licensed healthcare professionals.

By attending this event, I understand and agree to the limitations of the experiential components of workshops offered by the Climate Psychology Alliance-North America and the Michigan Climate Action Network effective the date of this transaction.

REFUND POLICY

We understand that things come up and can’t always be anticipated. We will grant refunds requested 48 hours ahead of the event. We will not honor refunds after the event has started.