🎙 Speaker Session: Climate Psychology with Caroline Hickman

​🌱 Attend this session to learn more about navigating climate anxiety and turning that into empathy and action.

About the Speaker
Caroline Hickman is a lecturer at the University of Bath in social work and climate psychology. A practicing psychotherapist & board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA). Currently for CPA she is supporting the development of a range of therapeutic outreach projects, working with teachers and outdoor eco-education projects offering workshops in schools (primary & secondary), and universities and supporting the development of a service providing climate crisis aware psychotherapy.

​With CPA she is also creating a series of podcasts on Climate Psychology & Eco-Anxiety - ‘Climate Crisis Conversations - Catastrophe or Transformation’.

​Caroline works with schools, parent groups, youth activist groups and as a pyschotherapist with children & young people & adults dealing with eco anxiety and distress about the climate & biodiversity crisis.

​Through the University she has been researching children & young people’s feelings including eco-anxiety about the climate and biodiversity crisis for 5 years to uncover and explore different stories, narratives and images around our defenses against the ‘difficult truth’ we are facing. Her climate change research is with children & young people in the UK, The Brazil, USA, Maldives, Nigeria & Bangladesh.

​Hosted by: ​Candice Ammori