Psychology for a Safe Climate Conference 2015

SATURDAY 21 MARCH 2015

CLIMATE CHANGE: TURN ON or TURN OFF?

 

What helps and what hinders engagement with climate change?

 

Presentations, discussion and debate – for the heart and the mind.

 

Susan Murphy holds the conference audience engaged.

Susan Murphy

Vulnerability and Resilience: Not-knowing is the most intimate

Charles Le Feuvre

Brains for a safe climate?

Beth Hill

Can people  experience climate change?

PROGRAM

 

Keynote

Susan Murphy: Vulnerability and Resilience: ‘not-knowing is most intimate’
Dr Susan Murphy is an authorised Zen Roshi. She is a writer, radio producer and film director. Her latest book is Minding the Earth, Mending the World (2012, 2014), 

Papers and discussion
Andrea Bunting: Using Moral Framing of Climate Change to Enhance Engagement
Don McArthur: Communicating about climate change when “the facts are not enough”
Sally Gillespie: Sun Ripening: What can happen when we engage with climate change
Charles LeFeuvre: Brains for a Safe Climate?

5 minute presentations 

• Katerina Gaita

• Beth Hill

• Darren Sharp

• Hans Baer

• Julie James

• Antony Williams

• Jane Morton

• Jim Crosthwaite

Climate Change Debate: Does the truth about climate change motivate us to act?
No: Rod Quantock, Lyn Bender, Jonathan Marshall.
Yes: Susan Murphy, David Spratt, Andrea Bunting 
 

Psychology for a Safe Climate booklet launch

Launch of Facing the Heat: Conversations on Climate Change, a new publication by Psychology for a Safe Climate.

 

See full program with times, abstracts and presenter notes (PDF 295kb)

Post conference Sunday Workshops - for Climate Well-being

Sunday 22nd March 2015

 

There were 4 different workshops, in 4 time slots.

 

Workshop 1

Zen and the Art of Planetary Crisis 

Leader: Dr Susan Murphy gave the keynote at the conference, and is a writer, authorized Zen teacher, film-maker and author of Minding the Earth, Mending the World.

 

Workshop 2

Care for the heart and soul using creative methods – to support and nourish, and foster reflection

Leader: Dr Sally Gillespie is a practised Jungian psychotherapist and has recently completed a PhD on Climate Change and Psyche

 

Workshop 3

Beating Burnout: A workshop for discovering your own resources to prevent burn out

Leaders: Ben Nisenbaum, Rosemary Crettenden and Carol Ride are experienced psychologists and psychotherapists, all actively involved in the work of Psychology for a Safe Climate.

 

Workshop 4

Let’s talk! The art of conversation around climate change

2pm – 3.30pm. (max 40 participants). Repeated in workshop 6.

Leaders: Sue Pratt and Dr Bronwyn Wauchope are experienced psychologists and psychotherapists, both actively involved in the work of Psychology for a Safe Climate.