Kit chats to Rebecca Nestor & Caroline Fernandez about tacking climate anxiety, active hope through conversations, knitting, TV box sets amongst other things!
Rebecca is a climate activist and climate psychologist, and a recovering doctoral student at the University of Essex. She works mostly through the Climate Psychology Alliance, where she is on the board of directors and lead on climate cafes, but also a freelance organisational consultant and facilitator. Rebecca’s work is about supporting those facing the climate crisis. She lives in Oxford and regularly splashes about in the Thames.
Caroline is Project Coordinator for sUStain. She is a networker, food grower, environmentalist and chirpy ex Londoner, now living in Norfolk. Eldest of eight siblings, Caroline loves to travel the world through food, loves speaking German, and has family in India.
Some links to things mentioned in the chat:
- UEA Climate of Change (https://www.uea.ac.uk/climate-of-change/eco-anxiety)
- Young people’s climate anxiety revealed in landmark survey ((https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02582-8)
- UEA Project Change for students and teachers (https://projectchange.uea.ac.uk/)
- Norfolk & Waveney Mind: sUStain project (https://www.norfolkandwaveneymind.org.uk/getdoc/58ba1a30-b784-4557-85cc-b2832a1a6651/sustain-project)
- Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (https://www.activehope.info)
- Age of Stupid movie (https://www.spannerfilms.net/films/ageofstupid)
- Climate Change is a School Safeguarding Issue (https://geogramblings.com/2021/04/25/school-safeguarding-policy-should-consider-climate-change-and-eco-anxiety/)
Expand your geography network and connect with these geographers via Twitter at https://twitter.com/RebeccaClimate and https://twitter.com/norfolkmind
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