Transforming Climate Grief Through Movement with Dr. Jamē McCray + Jonathan van Arneman
Join ecologist and award-winning choreographer Dr. Jamē McCray and somatic psychotherapist Jonathan van Arneman in an innovative movement-based workshop that unveils the psychosomatic layers of climate grief and how it can reside in the body.
In this experiential session, participants will be guided through movement meditations and written reflection to explore, dissect, and transform their climate grief. The culminating activities will allow participants to leave with personally relevant ideas that can transform grief into meaningful action.
In this workshop, participants will receive psychoeducation on climate grief as a combination of disenfranchised and anticipatory grief, and be given specific tools to address the experiences of said grief in the body. This workshop uses evidence-based movement practices and a theoretical framework of Liberation Psychology to inform its approach. The goal is to collectively create an intentional space to process grief while imagining and establishing pathways toward hope and agency.
Come prepared to move, reflect, and be inspired.
Workshop Benefits:
● Participate in guided exercises to processing climate grief
● Experience the therapeutic effects of embodied emotional expression
● Build community with others navigating similar climate concerns
● Transform feelings of helplessness into empowered action
● Learn techniques to maintain emotional resilience while engaging in climate work
● Connect with scientific understanding of climate emotions in an accessible format
No prior dance experience necessary.
Root to Flourish Collective cultivates a racially-just conservation, climate, and environmental movement through empowered leadership and community care.
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