Focusing & Climate Change: Eco-Anxiety, Self-Care & Climate Action

We use Eugene Gendlin's Focusing practice to access the emotional wellbeing needed to act on climate change. From being with our climate emotions, to knowing what our bodies would find soothing, to tapping into what is ours to do in this crisis.

Climate Change Videos

These videos have a mix of guided Focusing exercises and people sharing their experiences connected to the climate crisis.

Climate Change Blogs

In these blogs I share how I’ve used Focusing to process my climate emotions, and prompts for how you might use it too.

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What are you unknowingly doing to get love?
What are you unknowingly doing to get love?

I’ve known for a while that when I was little, one of the reason’s I had such a drive to excel academically was to get love and attention. What I didn’t realize was that this belief—learning being a critical way to get love—was still running the show!

Spiral of silence: Why are we still not talking about it?
Spiral of silence: Why are we still not talking about it?

The spiral of silence is that we stay silent with our opinions that we sense are in the minority. As a result, we stay silent on many things: what our opinions and emotions are, especially about contentious issues like climate change.

Catastrophic thinking leads to climate action. How can it be more welcomed?
Catastrophic thinking leads to climate action. How can it be more welcomed?

Climate change progress continues to be too slow. Many scientists say it’s inevitable that we’ll overshoot the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius. What can we do? In this blog I share some of my process in being with eco-anxiety, and new research that suggests the answer may be to welcome catastrophic thinking. To feel, think and act within the realities of the climate crisis. Luckily, Focusing can help with that.

Climate Change Focusing Course

Take our climate change course to learn to use Focusing in a group container to be climate change emotions, sensing what our bodies need for self-care, and discovering what is ours to do in this crisis.

Courses, Groups & More
NEW SMALL GROUP COURSE: Holding Space for the Climate Crisis and other Existential Emotions with Focusing (8 weeks)

NEW SMALL GROUP COURSE: Holding Space for the Climate Crisis and other Existential Emotions with Focusing (8 weeks)

This eight-week Focusing course will create a gathering place for professionals to learn to hold space for the complex interplay of climate emotions in their work and simultaneously, to also show up as individuals. Combining current neuroscience, trauma research, and ancient wisdom practices we will develop an understanding of our patterned threat responses and explore new ways of showing up in the world with the power of our intuition, and clarity of how best to be of service.

Try Focusing and see if it’s a tool for your climate toolbox.