This event is included in a series of seminars organised in collaboration with the Therapy and Social Change Network
We cannot ignore that climate change has become an everyday reality affecting us all, the whole planet, communities and its natural habitats. Natural disasters can be seen as manifestations of how humanity, particularly non-indigenous cultures, have put themselves and their needs before everything else, using and abusing the environment. This means that we are actually engaging in self-harming as nature is us and we are nature.
This webinar will present some ideas about rewilding therapy practices, recognizing the power of nature, that we are simply guests and custodians, with a socio-political responsibility as activists-therapists to challenge traditional way of delivering therapy, to offer ethical and innovative practices to meet the increasing need for mental health support and community building.
The webinar will share some practice examples of ecotherapy and community building based on Chiara’s developing ecosystemic practice in Nature in the local community in Brighton.
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I am nature lover, a White woman, in my fifties, heterosexual, Italian. I am a systemic family psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, Director of Family Therapy Services and Rainbow CommUnity Projects. I am passionate about social justice, ethical practice, creativity and self-reflexivity.
I have been working with children and families for more than 30 years. In the UK worked in a statutory agency for 10 year and I have been providing post adoption therapeutic support to children and their families in the Southeast since 2012 as an independent therapist. I have considerable experience in supervising, and I have been teaching on systemic courses for 12 years. In the past seven years I have been developing community projects and ecosystemic nature-based therapy. I have written a few articles and I have presented at several national and European conferences. A book on Rewilding therapy was published in May 2024.
The Therapy and Social Change (TaSC) Network is a broad affiliation of people interested in exploring the interface between therapeutic ideas and practices and social justice perspectives and actions. We are interested both in the ways that counselling and psychotherapy can be practiced with social justice concerns in mind (for instance, tackling unconscious biases in the consulting room), and also in the ways that therapeutic principles and practices can be extended out to the wider social realm (for instance, developing social and emotional literacy in schools).
