Ecosystems of Care: A Solastalgia poetry and prose workshop

Join GSA and RAVEN for a creative workshop exploring our relationships with place, climate change, grief, belonging, and collective care.
About this Event

What sustains us through times of change, when the ground beneath our feet seems strange and unreal?

Solastalgia describes the distress we feel when “home” doesn’t feel like home anymore, a sense of homesickness one feels when the places we live start changing around us.

Our lives are intricately woven into the places we inhabit, the communities we belong to, and the living, breathing world around us. As climate change transforms these relationships, how do we continue to care for one another, foster belonging, and build a just future together?

Join GSA and RAVEN for Solastalgia: Poetry, Prose, & Ecosystems of Care, a creative workshop exploring our relationships with place, climate change, grief, belonging, and collective care.

Through guided writing prompts, reflections, and discussion, we'll explore how care flows between people, place, our more-than-human kin, and the communities we build, including the world we’ll leave for future generations. Together, we'll reflect on the relationships that sustain us, what needs protecting and nourishing, and how creativity can help us imagine new possibilities for our communities and the places we call home.

No writing experience is needed! Just bring yourself, your curiosity, and a willingness to reflect.

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Building resilience through care and collective power

This is the second event in our . This gathering explores an essential dimension of climate resilience: the relationships and practices that help communities navigate change, build solidarity, and shape their own futures.

Weathering disruption is an essential part of resilience. But to get there, we need to build real, sometimes messy, sometimes amazing ecosystems of care. This is foundational to ensuring that communities have a voice in decisions that affect them, and is a major step along the way to building the collective power required to create more just and livable futures.

We don't have to face uncertainty alone. By making space for creativity, connection, and shared reflection, we can nurture the ecosystems of care that sustain us, and strengthen our capacity to shape what comes next.