Conversations with Authors: Holding the Hope

Join us for an engaging and insightful EMCCUK Conversations with Authors event featuring Linda Aspen and Michael Painton, contributing editors to Holding the Hope: Reviving Psychological and Spiritual Agency in the Face of Climate Change. This book explores the frameworks, theoretical constructs and ways of working talking therapists have devised to hold hope and build agency in the face of climate change.

Global heating, catastrophic climate change and the growing reality of ecosystem damage and accelerated species extinction hang over us all. For the counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors who make up the talking therapy professions, these topics are increasingly coming up in their work. They must deal both with their clients’ and communities’ emotions and responses – their fear, anger, denial, grief, helplessness and hopelessness – and with their own.

In the book, contributors from a range of cultural backgrounds and professional disciplines discuss our inter-relationships with the natural world, indigenous practices and understandings, acknowledging our betrayal of our children and young people, how to go on practising at the edge of despair, staying well in unwell times, ‘rewilding’ hope, deep adaptation coaching and much more.

About the editors

Linda Aspey is a coach, facilitator, therapist, climate psychology consultant and Time to Think global faculty member. She works with leaders and organisations to create cultures that enable significant transformation around climate, environmental and social justice issues.

Matthew Painton is a deep adaptation coach and facilitator. He works with individuals who are deeply distressed by the scope, scale and trajectory of what is transpiring on Earth and with fellow coaches, therapists, educators, activists and facilitators who are seeking to address the skills-gap between current practice and present need.

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