Drawing on her book written for her students, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, Sarah Jaquette Ray will focus on the role of our emotions in climate justice advocacy. We are living in a time of multiple, layering crises, but what does the story of apocalypse do to our capacity to respond wisely? How can we effectively show up for each other and the planet, and not burn out or despair to the point of giving up? Distilling wisdom from across many fields and traditions, Dr. Ray will offer an “existential toolkit” for the climate generation.
About Sarah Jaquette Ray
Sarah Jaquette Ray is a professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Cal Poly Humboldt. She works at the intersection of social justice and climate emotions, particularly among youth activists and in higher education. In addition to A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, Ray is co-editor of the volume The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators and author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture.
Ray serves on the board of the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center and on the scientific advisory board for the Climate Mental Health Network. She speaks and publishes widely on the role of emotions in climate advocacy. Ray has taught mindfulness courses on climate and activism, and is a certified mindfulness teacher through the UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center.
Attendance
This talk is set for 5:30 pm, Wednesday, Feb. 11 at The PRAx’s Derrick Hall, 470 SW 15th St, Corvallis. Attendance is free, but you will need to reserve a seat, and you can click here to do that.
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