eco-anxiety & climate justice expert-led community conversation
Soapbox Project brings you another event to help you on your journey to transform your climate anxiety into meaningful action, in partnership with PLU!
This session explores the impacts of climate change on our mental, spiritual, and social wellbeing, and lessons drawn from Indigenous cultures and comparative religious traditions to help us build a more resilient, just, and sustainable world.
Here's how the hour will go, roughly:
4-4:10 — chit chat & large group intros speed round
4:10-4:50 — community conversation anchored by Dr. Suzanne Crawford-O'Brien & Dr. Kevin O'Brien (think of it as a fireside chat between the two of them AND you!)
4:50-5:00 — take action & wrap up
5:00-5:30 — hang around, chit chat more, and slowly trickle out to your next thing ✨
More about whom you'll meet:
Dr. Suzanne Crawford-O'Brien is a professor of Native American studies and religion and culture at PLU, where she teaches about climate anxiety and spiritual resilience She is the author of Religion and Culture in Native America, and Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness Among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest.
Dr. Kevin O'Brien is a professor of ethics and environmental studies at PLU, where he teaches about climate justice. He is the author of The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance From Nonviolent Activists, and Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty: Wrestling with Wicked Problems.
Nivi Achanta is the founder and CEO of Soapbox Project. We create joyful community spaces to heal our climate anxiety and loneliness through connection, learning, and action. Find your place in the climate movement with our online and in-person community!
PLU has kindly offered to support our session with a small lil gift. We are so appreciative! Also, their brand kit is hella cool. If you or your company want to contribute to this work of healing climate anxiety, shoot me a note.