Holding the Hope

Reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change
Global heating, catastrophic climate change, ecosystem damage and species extinction hang over us all. In this book - counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors - explore the frameworks, theoretical constructs and ways of working they have devised to hold hope and build agency in the face of it all.
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. The chapters in this thought-provoking, honest, moving and sobering book explore the frameworks, theoretical constructs and ways of working they have devised to hold hope and build agency in the face of all this complexity, uncertainty and injustice. 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.

Contributor: Linda Aspey (Edited by), Diane Parker (Edited by), Catherine Jackson (Edited by), Sally Weintrobe (Foreword by)

Pages: 252

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