A seminar for professionals torn between conflicting priorities in the metacrisis

Are you conflicted about the demands of your career path and your personal values and concerns in a time of ecological collapse?

Are you confused about how best to respond?

Are you asking what a meaningful life looks like in the context of the climate crisis?

Join climate psychologist, Steffi Bednarek, & climate journalist, Matthew Green, to explore these dilemmas in a small group of professionals from diverse backgrounds at The Conduit.

About this seminar

With the impacts of climate change hitting harder each year, many of us are experiencing a growing sense of cognitive dissonance between the reality of the situation we’re facing, and the response in the places where we work.

In most companies, it’s tacitly forbidden to voice our fears – or question why our organisations aren’t doing more.

Perhaps we work in finance, media, industry, advertising, the civil service or other systemically important sectors, and feel an increasingly uncomfortable mismatch between the necessity we see for transformational change – and the business-as-usual approach at the top.

Perhaps we’re sitting with feelings of guilt or shame over acts of commission or omission by our organisations, that we feel could be doing so much more.

We may feel we have nowhere to turn with our dilemmas, reluctant even to open to loved ones, for fear of overwhelming them, or that they’ll jump in with quick-fix solutions that won’t speak to the depth of the double binds we’re facing. 

In recognition of the growing numbers of people questioning their relationship with their employers in the light of the climate crisis, Steffi Bednarek and Matthew Green are offering this confidential space to begin to explore such concerns.

The idea is not to generate solutions, but see what happens when we give voice to concerns that may not have a place to land in our workplaces – but speak to fundamental questions about our identity and sense of personal responsibility at this consequential time. 

Drawing on Steffi’s experience as a climate psychologist and facilitator, and Matthew’s role as a journalist exploring the intersection of the climate crisis and collective trauma, this session will provide a place to witness each other’s process around these dilemmas, and see what might open up within in each of us as a result. 

Cost: Early bird (until 7th NOV) £250
Full price £285  All tickets include a free lunch at The Conduit.

Location:

Limited places available

Meet your facilitators

Steffi is a psychotherapist, a consultant in climate psychology, living systems theory, and complexity thinking, and editor of the recently published book ‘Climate, Psychology & Change’. She is founder of the Centre for Climate, Psychology & Change. 

She has managed national and international projects, headed up large mental health services, and worked on sociopolitical change for local and national governments, the sustainability sector, and nongovernmental organizations. Steffi is an associate of the Climate Psychology Alliance, a Firekeeper at World Ethic Forum, and an associate of the American Psychological Association’s Climate Change Group.

Matthew is a climate journalist, author and creator of the Resonant World newsletter, who previously spent 14 years as an international correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters. He is training in group processes to integrate collective and inter-generational trauma with Thomas Hübl.