Ecological grief, Messy Hope& Healing Interactive Art and Dialogue Workshop

This workshop invites community members, students, UBC faculty, staff and more to hold and confront their climate emotions and learn about frameworks such as climate wellbeing (developed by Meghan Wise and UBC Climate Hub) which center solutions based-thinking. Participants are invited to engage with intersectional approaches to healing (credited to Atreyu Lewis) to hold space for climate emotions, process trauma caused by climate change, and imagine the better worlds we are fighting for.

Dialogue, free food, collaging, and reflective + movement-based activities will be facilitated to support the processing of climate emotions such as ecological grief and climate anxiety and facilitate engagement with care work. 

Event questions & invitations:

• What are climate emotions? How do they relate to climate justice & injustices?
• What is your experience of climate emotions?
• How are ongoing colonialisms and racial capitalism connected to climate emotions and mental health? Who is impacted hardest?
• What are helpful strategies and containers to process and hold overwhelming climate emotions?
• What can healing from colonial and capitalist violences look and feel like?
• What do you and your communities desire for a climate just future?

Thank you to UBC wellbeing, UBC Sustainability ambassadors climate wellbeing cohort, Solastalgia, Break the divide, and Mental health & climate change alliance for partnering with UBC Climate Hub for this event.

Accessibility:

• Please wear a mask to this event to care for immunocompromised peoples.
• A zoom option will also be provided for accessibility for the wider community, UBC Okanagan campus, and beyond. 

• Location: UBC Centre for interactive research on sustainability (2260 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4). First floor at Hydrotheatre room.

Host or Publisher UBC Climate Hub