As people awake to the very real dangers of continuing inaction around climate change.
Listen to Radio 4 Costing the Earth on Eco-anxiety here. The programme includes Jem Bendell, Caroline Hickman and George Marshall amongst others.
We have begun offering support to those affected by engaging with such difficult truths with the aim of:
- Helping to understand our complex individual and cultural responses as the crisis unfolds and we engage with the unthinkable
- Helping people to develop resilience, so that they can contribute to sustainable communities and prepare for change
- Validating people’s experiences of responses to the climate crisis; helplessness, grief, anger, despair and fear all have their place in this work
We can offer therapeutic support to any groups or individuals who are interested in our approach and who may want support or are experiencing distress in the light of the current climate change crisis and action. In the first instance we would ask for your geographical location and some idea of the support you would like. We have therapists across the UK willing to offer support. Please contact Caroline Hickman on CPAtherapeutics@yahoo.com
Quotes from the back of the CPA support leaflet:
‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever does’
Margaret Mead
‘You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that’
Samuel Beckett
‘Grieving allows us to remake our futures using all of our creativity, reason, feeling and strength’
Ro Randall
‘Our children in the future will look back at us and ask if we did all that we could have done to deal with this problem, or did we avoid doing what needed to be done?’
Barack Obama
‘In urgent times many of us are tempted to address trouble in terms of making an imagined future safe, of stopping something from happening that looms in the future, of clearing away the present and the past in order to make futures for coming generations. Staying with the trouble does not require such a relationship to times called the future. Staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present. Not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvic futures. But as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings’
Donna Haraway
‘Sometimes I wonder….how psychology ever got so off base. How did it cut itself off from reality? Where else in the world would a human soul be so divorced from the spirits of its surroundings? Psychology, so dedicated to awakening the human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet’
James Hillman
