This group is designed to build solidarity, metabolize uncertainty, face moral injury and increase resilience among scientists, engineers, science communicators, science instructors and professors, postdocs, and students in the sciences - particularly those struggling with the burden of knowing the impacts of climate change. Participants will learn to digest grief, anger, numbness, anxiety and despair in a community of peers-with an aim to restore joy in life and engagement in meaningful work. Thursday evenings, beginning May 8th, 4:30-6:30 PM Pacific / 7:30-9:30 PM Eastern. $350 for the 6-week series.
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This 6-week course meets for two hours per week on Thursdays:
-May 8 4:30 PM- 6:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM-9:30 PM ET
-May 15 4:30 PM- 6:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM-9:30 PM ET
-May 22 4:30 PM- 6:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM-9:30 PM ET
-May 29 4:30 PM- 6:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM-9:30 PM ET
-June 5 4:30 PM- 6:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM-9:30 PM ET
-June 12 4:30 PM- 6:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM-9:30 PM ET
"I need to be talking about climate change and hope with other scientists! But not just in the technical way we do in my field -"we need clean energy tech for climate change, and now we'll dive into details and not talk about it again". I want to stay connected with folks like this."
-2025 Participant
MEET THE FACILITATORS
Kristan Childs (she/her) is a Good Grief Network and Work That Reconnects facilitator. She co-Chairs the Climate Psychology Alliance North America’s Committee to Support Scientists and STEM Professionals, and is on faculty at the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute. Kristan is certified in both Ecopsychology and Climate Psychology, and she has trained in griefwork with Francis Weller. Kristan is passionate about creating courageous and tender places where people can come together to do the emotional work needed to show up more fully in their lives, as well as for their families, their communities, and this beautiful planet. Learn more at her website.
Teddy Kellam (she/her) is a climate-aware therapist and a faculty member of Climate Emotional Resilience Institute. Certified in Climate Psychology, she co-chairs the Climate Psychology Alliance North America’s Committee to Support Scientists and STEM Professionals, and has been a Good Grief Network facilitator for the past 5 years. Teddy uses her skills and training in trauma, griefwork and somatics to support scientists, therapists, journalists, activists, parents, educators & climate professionals in building resilience, recovering joy and orienting to who they want to be in these uncertain times. Learn more at her website.
"...I 100% will be recommending it...Having the opportunity to sit and interrogate ones emotions and do that in a community where you are also hearing others share their emotions (in a specifically built safe space) is a much healthier modeling of coping. And, it supports all of the evidence on the importance of community building, solidarity, mutual respect and understanding (and so on)."
-2025 Participant