Navigating eco-anxiety together

We are hosting this session for the Next Gen Earth cohort and ASDC members to create a supportive space for sharing questions, challenges and concerns around climate change and eco-anxiety, both for the young people you work with and for yourselves.

Date: Wednesday 10th December

Time: 10:00am–12:00pm (online)

Please register in advance and complete the short registration form. You’re also welcome to invite colleagues who may benefit from the discussion.

We will be joined by the brilliant and wonderful Dr Caroline Hickman to answer your questions and provide guidance and advice on this topic.

Caroline Hickman is a psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Bath researching children and young people’s emotional responses to climate change in the UK, Brazil, The Maldives, Nigeria & USA for 10 years examining eco-anxiety & distress, eco-empathy, trauma, moral injury and the impact of climate anxiety on family relationships. She is lead researcher & author on a 2021 quantitative global study into children & young people’s emotions & thoughts about climate change to be published in The Lancet Planetary Health. 

A practicing psychotherapist and board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance she has been developing a range of therapeutic services for ecological distress including a psychological assessment model for eco-anxiety, and delivered workshops in climate psychology, emotional resilience and mental health internationally.   

We will also be joined by the equally brilliant Dr Helen Featherstone, Head of Public Engagement at University of Bath, who also sits on the Next Gen Earth steering group.

To help us shape the session, please send your questions in advance to Project Manager Cait Campbell, or include them in the registration form. There will also be time for live Q&A throughout the session. Don't hold back!

This forum is funded by the ASDC national STEM programme Next Gen Earth, which is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, part of UKRI.