This partnership between clinical and coaching psychologist Sarah Monk and climate change activist Alice Graves began seven years ago at university where they met studying an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology. We offer training to support people coping with the mental health implications of the climate crisis. Sarah, a specialist in compassion, self-compassion and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Alice, a climate change psychology specialist, have now collaborated and combined their skills to create a working theory of climate anxiety, also known as eco-anxiety. Based on that work they have created a series of workshops and short courses to help support others going through the extremely tough personal journey we all must make, from being part of the climate problem (high carbon users) to part of the solution. Recognizing that we are at very different places along that journey, our courses are tailored to match. We offer a course to support those who work in the climate change arena and are confronted daily with distressing news of climate catastrophe, and we offer a course for those who have only just begun to realise the enormity of what we collectively are facing. We work to support those who are teaching children and young people about the environment (including the new GCSE in Natural History to be introduced in 2025) and offer a course for university students who are undertaking environmental degrees which many find highly distressing. It is vitally important that students continue with their studies as we will rely on the knowledge and research of those graduates to help us navigate through the upcoming extremely difficult years. And of course, we work to support those within the corporate world, where massive changes are underway to align businesses with Net Zero targets and policies. This is a highly influential area as it will be business and industry that has the largest and most immediate contribution to make to achieving the reductions in emissions to keep our planet liveable. If you'd like to know more please send us a DM
