September 2021

Transforming Climate Trauma: Building Wise and Resilient Responses to the Climate Crisis With Bob Doppelt, James Baraz, and Pawan Bareja For more information and to register go to: https://spirit-rock.secure.retreat.guru/program/transforming-climate-trauma-jb1c21/ Description: This 6 week series will start on Tuesday November 9 and continue until Tuesday December 14 from 6-8 pm Pacific Time. It will help you learn how to build personal, group, and community “Transformation Resilience” for...

By Jennifer Silverstein, LCSW, jennisilverstein.com, Blog 2021. “Every time I rescue a bee, it matters. If I didn’t rescue it, the hive may not have enough bees, and then there’d be less honey, and less flowers, and less fruit, and when people go shopping there would not be enough for them to eat.” – Dani, 7 years old I have spent 7 years teaching her about the interdependence of all life, and our place in the web of living beings. Yet upon hearing her articulate the values I so carefully...

Through fires and hurricanes, through lethal heat waves and flash floods, the world seems to be ending — or at least, that's what it feels like. All around us, we're seeing the effects of climate change. Wildfires are raging through the West. Much of southeast Louisiana was flattened by Hurricane Ida , and parts of New York and New Jersey are digging out from disastrous flooding. And if it seems like natural disasters are happening more and more often, that's because they are : Climate...