Embodied Climate Action: Cultivate Critical Hope through Connection to Self, Nature, and Community

Being in nature and with community are two age-old forms of mental, physical, and emotional well-being. Each workshop is focused around a seasonal theme within the Gardens on Spring Creek to explore our inner responses to our collective climate emergency so that we may regenerate resilience for ourselves, our community, and Earth. Tamara Yakaboski, PhD, guides participants through reflection, discussion, and mind-body activities to cultivate critical hope from our eco-grief and anxiety.

Preparation: Bring your journal or something to write on/with. Be prepared to explore outside in all weather conditions and temperatures - jackets, lap blanket, whatever allows you to be as close to nature as possible.

Note to participants: These workshops are containers to process, share, and witness individual and collective climate grief and emotions. These are not substitute for therapy. They are not debates about climate crisis cause or existence or to develop agree upon collective action.

$10 a class 

Scholarships are Available

Gathering the Seeds of Critical Hope

Autumn is the time that garden plants prepare their seeds for dispersal. Seeds represent critical hope. By taking action to disperse seeds, there is trust that seeds will find grounding and spring will come again. In playing with this metaphor, this workshop will explore how we gather our own seeds of critical hope in the face of eco-anxiety and ecological grief so that we can then grow our climate action. We will explore how it is critical to pair emotions with action.

Saturday, September 28 | 1:00-3:00 | $10 In-Person