Children and the Climate Crisis
Working with their Anxiety, Anger, Grief and Hope
Recorded Friday 21 January 2022
With keynote speakers Caroline Hickman and Sally Weintrobe, Judith Anderson, Jay Griffiths, Anna Harvey, and more...
CPD Credits: 6 hours
Bringing together voices from many backgrounds, this conference aims to provide meaningful insights into the emotional states which are evoked in young people by the environmental crisis. We will explore how the complexity and depth of their feelings – their anger, fear, and sense of abandonment – can be more effectively heard, understood, and responded to by adults.
We will aim to recognise how the current ecological crisis is showing up in their behaviour, preoccupations, dreams, and sense of a future, and to understand their struggle to navigate the tension between hope, despair, action, and nihilism.
READ MORE...The panel will offer interdisciplinary perspectives and young peoples’ views on how the widespread adult denial and disavowal of the climate emergency deepens the burden carried by children. We can see that they are often the most clear-sighted, outspoken, and alive to the subjectivities of the other-than—human. Do children feel and express the pain of the world for many? Do adults find it too hard to hear the child’s perspective and to tolerate their distress because we cannot face reality ourselves?
Asking difficult questions and facing the moral, cultural, practical, and spiritual journey that is needed to transform our behaviour for the sake of all living species, we will ask how adults – who ourselves have to face our own grief, loss, and anxiety – can be most effective in containing and responding to children’s needs in this era. Together we will consider the importance of keeping their interests at the centre of our hearts and minds – in climate emergency conversations, at home, at school and in the clinical setting. Perhaps most importantly, we will look at where hope and resilience relate and reside.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits for 6 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate.
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