Barbara Easterlin frequently teaches on the topic of climate emotions and clinical interventions for individuals on the front lines of environmental and sustainability work. Typical audiences are counseling centers, university climate research programs, professional mental health organizations, and community groups.
Sampling of Past Events:
June 9, 2024: Conversation with Thomas Hubl as part of his “Navigating the Experience of Collective Trauma” series about collective and individual psychological impacts of climate change and how we can help mental health practitioners and facilitators repurpose their skills to move people from hopelessness/depair about the planetary ecological crisis towards agency/empowerment. Everyone has a thread in the fabric of moving our planet toward decarbonization and a safer, more beautiful earth.
June 3, 2024: Climate Change and Its Impact on Mental Health: Insights for Therapists: 3-hour on-demand CE webinar https://leadingedgeseminars.org/event/climate-change-and-mental-health-exploring-climate-psychology-with-barbara-easterlin-phd/#1708550568343-a2e605c5-17af
Fall, 2022 - Winter, 2023 I co-created a 60-hour Climate Psychology Certificate program through the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). This program is geared to train clinicians in skills that address climate crisis-related distress. For more information: CIIS Climate Psychology Certificate
July 13, 2022 @ 6:30 PM Mountain Timezone: Climate Psychology – What are we learning? What is emerging? In conversation with Duane and Coleen Elgin, founders of Choosing Earth, a conversation with Barbara about Climate Psychology. Explore what Barbara is learning from her teaching and research in this emerging field. Specific topics include working with eco-anxiety and eco-dread, speaking more effectively with children and young adults, and understanding the long-term stress of living with the reality of profound climate changes. Hear about Barbara’s learning trajectory and her reflections on meditation and inner practices for building resilience. Finally, explore emerging developments in the field of climate psychology. Climate Psychology - What we are learning...
October 23, 2021: Daylong climate psychology CE training for mental health clinicians and nurses on through California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California. Behavioral and psychological tools for engaging climate awareness and engagement. Aan uplifting take on a challenging topic – one that combines didactic information on more effective messaging about climate, skills training in identifying and treating climate anxiety, parenting concerns, the double/triple burden of climate change on the mental health of marginalized, poor, and BIPOC communities, as well as young adults, and how to generate a sense of power and agency when your clients are experiencing worries about the future. Punctuated by several experiential exercises that breathe some fresh air into this difficult topic.”March 25, 2022 “Climate Psychology in Clinical Practice”, a 3-hour continuing education introductory presentation to Monterrey County Chapter of CAMFT
April 16, 2022 “Therapy for Planet Earth: Climate Psychology in Practice”, a 4-hour continuing education Earth Day presentation to Marin County Chapter of CAMFT
February 18, 2023: “Mental Health Impacts of the Climate Crisis” for Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate
April 15, 2023: Illinois State Psychological Association “Climate Informed Psychotherapy: Moving from Despair to Engaged Action”, a 6.5 hour APA approved CE class for clinicians