24/02/2025
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CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CONSULTING ROOM AND BEYOND:
AN INTRODUCTION TO KEY THEMES BY TWO CLIMATE advocate THERAPISTS
Guest presenter, Noa Heiman, PhD, University of Colorado,
Department of Psychiatry
and
Penelope Starr-Karlin, PsyD, LMFT, chair of IFPE’S new Climate Change committee
Sunday, MARCH 9th
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 P.m. Pacific Time, on zoom.
Free for Members!
$30 Non-Member Rate
Our guest, Dr Noa Heiman will introduce the social and psychological roots of the climate crisis by comparing a cognitive view, a psychanalytic view, and a behavioral economics view. These, along with important facts and figures, will provide a framework to understand how to address patient concerns about climate change, and what to listen for if they do not raise the topic. This overview will enhance competence in meeting the climate crisis both in and out of the therapy room.
In the second hour, Dr Penelope Starr-Karlin will provide an evocative case study called “Precarious Futures: The Birth of Vision at the End of the World” which revolves around an adult client with climate distress. The case addresses existential issues, digs into the role of future anticipation in subjective wellbeing, discovers mutual co-transference about global heating and politics, explores issues raised by living in an uncertain world, and demonstrates how climate psychology must respond to the ‘both and’ of climate work – the ‘really real’ and any displaced trauma – using a systems theory. The case uncovers a new therapeutic area of concern - talking about the future - and thereby helping clients find a vision and action that inspires and brings hope.
There will be time for Q&A and a discussion.
Our guest, Dr Noa Heiman will introduce the social and psychological roots of the climate crisis by comparing a cognitive view, a psychanalytic view, and a behavioral economics view. These, along with important facts and figures, will provide a framework to understand how to address patient concerns...
