Dear CPA community,
As one of the young members of the CPA circle, as well as the Climate Majority Project (climatemajorityproject.com),[1] I write to you today reflecting, as a youth, on the psychological dimension of helping to address the climate and environmental crisis (or at least that’s the intention!). Read More
During the final editing of Explorations: Issue 6 I was struck down by a tummy bug. Urgent dashes to a not-so-private bathroom kept me, my baby and husband stuck in a studio flat. My fever peaked with fainting at 4am, delirious from dehydration, having given all my milk and energy to my baby and everything else to the toilet bowl. Read More.
Like Nessa, I identify as a white middle class woman. I’m conscious of my privileges and responsibilities that come with my cultural heritage. I believe it is Whiteness - its values, psychologies and ideologies - that are driving climate change. Climate change is racist. Let’s reflect on this. Read More.
Last year, the jarring discrepancy between the climate emergency and ‘business as usual’ became overwhelming. Read More.
My positionality
I often begin training on anti-discriminatory practice by citing the multiple privileged positions I occupy within ‘the matrix of oppression’.[1] I typically name that I’m white, heterosexual, male, financially secure, and lucky to have been born with cognitive and physical abilities that support me in navigating an ableist society. Read More
We are a diverse community of therapeutic practitioners, thinkers, researchers, artists and others. We believe that attending to the psychology and emotions of the climate and ecological crisis is at the heart of our work.