This one hour workshop begins the process of helping individuals and communities build resilience by creating spaces where people can lean into their painful feelings about the state of the climate crisis and reorient their lives toward meaningful action.

To prepare for this event, you can watch the documentary The Magnitude of All Things directed by award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Abbott.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/TIVYm31gK5A

When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. For the people featured, climate change is not happening in the distant future: it is kicking down the front door. Battles waged, lamentations of loss, and raw testimony coalesce into an extraordinary tapestry, woven together with raw emotion and staggering beauty that transform darkness into light, grief into action.

When you register for this event, you will be emailed a link to the film The Magnitude of All Things. A working email address is required for registration. Watch the film on your own time then join us at this scheduled discussion and Q&A!

This workshop will be facilitated by the Good Grief Network using materials and methods from their signature process to process heavy emotions, deconstruct cultural narratives, and help build resilient communities. A group of trained facilitators will be present during opt-in breakout rooms to guide personal sharing in safe and guided spaces.

Process Heavy Emotions

We believe that certain creative and emergent ideas only become available once we’ve regulated our nervous systems and talked about our painful emotions such as fear, anger, and eco-grief.

Deconstruct Cultural Narratives

With the support of community, we, who have have been socialized by the dominant culture, do the work of looking at our varying levels of privilege, while undoing our cultural conditioning. When we acknowledge how we have perpetuated systems of oppression, we can stop participating in those systems and refuse to let them live within us.

Build Resilient Communities

We help cultivate resilient individuals who build community in their own localities by holding digital and physical spaces where people can gather together and practice deep listening, vulnerability, accountability, and mutual care.