Cultivating Collective Resilience in the Polycrisis with Sarah Jaquette Ray
Schedule
Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
470 SW 15th Street, Corvallis, OR, United States, Oregon 97331 | Corvallis, OR
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Spring Creek Project, OSU's Sustainability Double Degree, and OSU's Sustainability Office Present: Cultivating Collective Resilience in the Polycrisis with Sarah Jaquette RayDrawing on her book written for her students, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, Sarah Jaquette Ray will focus on the role of our emotions in climate justice advocacy. We are living in a time of multiple, layering crises, but what does the story of apocalypse do to our capacity to respond wisely? How can we effectively show up for each other and the planet, and not burn out or despair to the point of giving up? Distilling wisdom from across many fields and traditions, Dr. Ray will offer an "existential toolkit" for the climate generation.
Sarah Jaquette Ray is a professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Cal Poly Humboldt. She works at the intersection of social justice and climate emotions, particularly among youth activists and in higher education. In addition to A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, Ray is co-editor of the volume The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators and author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture.
Ray serves on the board of the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center and on the scientific advisory board for the Climate Mental Health Network. She speaks and publishes widely on the role of emotions in climate advocacy. Ray has taught mindfulness courses on climate and activism, and is a certified mindfulness teacher through the UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center.
In addition to co-presenters Spring Creek Project, OSU's Sustainability Double Degree, and OSU's Sustainability Office, this program was made possible by the support of OSU's Center for the Future of Forests and Society. Thanks, too, to Grass Roots Books, who will be on hand with copies of Sarah's titles. A book signing will follow the event.
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