Contributors

In order of appearance in the book

Thomas Hübl

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Thomas Hübl is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has been facilitating large-scale events and courses that focus on the healing and integration of trauma, with a special focus on the shared history of Israelis and Germans. Over the last decade, he has facilitated dialogue with thousands of people around healing the collective traumas of racism, oppression, colonialism, and genocides. He is the author of the book “Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds”. His non-profit organization, the Pocket Project, works to support the healing of collective trauma throughout the world.

Bayo Akomolafe

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Bayo Akomolafe, a philosopher, psychotherapist, and founder of the Emergence Network, has held visiting professor positions at Middlebury College, Sonoma State University, Simon Fraser University, and Schumacher College. Born in Nigeria and descendant of the Yoruba people, he currently resides in India and authored "These Wilds beyond Our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home".

Francis Weller

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Francis Weller is an American psychotherapist, writer, and Soul activist.He is the founder of Wisdom Bridge, an educational project that synthesizes psychology, anthropology, and mythology. He has taught at Sonoma State University and the Sophia Center, and he has been the featured teacher at the Minnesota Men’s Conference. He is author of “The Wild Edge of Sorrow”, The Threshold between Loss and Revelation, In the Absence of the Ordinary: Essays in a Time of Uncertainty, and “A Trail on the Ground: TheGeography of Soul”.

Mary-Jane Rust

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Mary-Jayne Rust is a British art therapist, Jungian analyst, and ecotherapist. She teaches, lectures, and facilitates workshops on ecopsychology in a wide range of settings, weaving together the ecological, psychological, political, and spiritual. Feminist psychotherapy helped to broaden her understanding of how culture shapes our internal worlds. Mary-Jayne is author of Towards an Ecopsychotherapy.

Sally Weintrobe

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Sally Weintrobe is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a long-standing member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and the chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Climate Committee. Sally edited Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, authored Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare, and co-authored Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death.

Chris Robertson

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Chris Robertson has been a psychotherapist since 1978. He is a former chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance and a cofounder of the Re-Vision psychotherapy training organization. He is coauthor of Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death and contributed the chapter “Culture Crisis: A Loss of Soul” in Depth Psychology and Climate Change.

Steve Thorp

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Steve Thorp weaves his way through a number of life strands and passions. His writing is published by Raw Mixture Publishing. He works as a school counselor and integrative psychotherapist. He founded Unpsychology Magazine in 2004 and continues to find joy in editing and crafting it. He cycles, swims, and surfs.

Shelot Masithi

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Shelot Masithi is a psychology student and young environmental activist from South Africa. She has a passion for collective interventions to address humankind’s collective trauma. She is the founder of She4Earth, an organization that is educating young people about environmental crises with solutions rooted in Ubuntu. She is a volunteer at Force of Nature, a social change ambassador at .red Media, and a YOUNGA 2021 youth delegate. She is also an author and a passionate hiker.

Wendy Greenspun

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Wendy Greenspun is on the steering committee of the Climate Psychology Alliance—North America and on faculty at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has presented workshops and courses for clinicians on ways to work with eco-anxiety and grief. She also provides workshops on building emotional resilience and has run groups (Climate Cafés) for processing climate distress. She has a clinical practice in New York City.

Nontokozo Charity Sabic

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Nontokozo Charity Sabic is an advocate for climate and social justice, community living, and North–South healing and reconciliation, utilizing the principles of Ubuntu. She works with international environmental and social movements to develop ways of dismantling systems of oppression, decolonizing, and healing internalized racism.

Malika Virah-Sawmy

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Malika Virah-Sawmy works as a facilitator for systems change with companies, institutions such as the UN, and social and Indigenous movements. She is dedicated to social justice, community living, Nature connection, and North–South healing and reconciliation. She is also engaged in research and storytelling in similar fields.

Trudi Macagnino

Trudi Macagnino is an integrative psychotherapist and supervisor working in private practice in Devon, UK. She is also a regional academic for the Open University and is completing a PhD with the University of the West of England Bristol.

Haweatea Holly Bryson

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Haweatea Holly Bryson is a Maori healing practitioner, psychotherapist, Nature-based therapist, and rite of passage guide. Committed to the resurgence of rites of passage, she co-leads global facilitator training in rites of passage and ecotherapy. She is the founder of Nature Knows, specializing in trauma, transition, and transformation.

Rhys Price-Robertson

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Rhys Price-Robertson is a Gestalt therapist in private practice on Dja Dja Wurrung land in Central Victoria, Australia. He is on the teaching faculty of Gestalt Therapy Australia, and he has published widely on topics such as psychotherapy, social theory, mental health, fatherhood, and family life.

Mark Skelding

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Mark Skelding is a psychotherapist in private practice in British Columbia, Canada. He has trained in psychosynthesis psychotherapy and has studied social ecology. He was a faculty member of the Institute of Psychosynthesis New Zealand, and he has initiated experiential ecopsychological courses. He is a community research associate at Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Keith Tudor

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Keith Tudor is a professor of psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand. His first training was in Gestalt therapy, following which he trained in transactional analysis and person-centered psychology. He is the coauthor of two books in this field: with David Key, Ecotherapy: A Field Guide, and with Bernie Neville, Eco-centred Therapy: Revisioning the Person-Centred Approach for a Living World.

Glenn A. Albrecht

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Glenn A. Albrecht is an honorary associate in the School of Geo-Sciences, University of Sydney. He retired as a professor of sustainability at Murdoch University in 2014 but continues to work as an environmental philosopher. He is the author of the book Earth Emotions and lives on Wonnarua land in New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for creating the concept of “solastalgia,” or the lived experience of negative environmental change.

Steffi Bednarek

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Steffi Bednarek is a psychotherapist and consultant in climate psychology, living systems theory, and complexity thinking. 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. She 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.

Peter Philippson

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Peter Philippson is a Gestalt psychotherapist, trainer, teaching and supervising member of the GPTI Institute, founder member of the Manchester Gestalt Centre, Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, senior trainer for GITA, advisory board member for the Centre for Somatic Studies, and a guest trainer for many training programs internationally. He is also a past president of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy and the founder of IG-FEST. He is the author of “Self in Relation, The Emergent Self, and Gestalt Therapy: Roots and Branches.”

Inna Didkovska

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Inna Didkovska is the director of Kyiv Gestalt University in Ukraine. She is also a psychotherapist with over twenty-five years of experience (Gestalt, psychodrama, and process work) as well as a lecturer, Gestalt teacher, supervisor, author, and organizer of online educational projects including international conferences, international courses, and webinars. She is an active member of EAGT, EAP, and FORGE.

Sally Gillespie

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Sally Gillespie is an active member of Psychology for a Safe Climate and the Climate Psychology Alliance, facilitating workshops and writing. Her book Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Reimagining Our World and Ourselves explores the psychological challenges and developmental processes of climate engagement. She lives on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal people in Sydney, Australia.

Rosemary Randall

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Rosemary Randall is a psychotherapist with a long history of involvement in the climate movement, and she has written and published widely on the psychology of climate change. She is cofounder of the Carbon Conversations project and a founding member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and she is currently active with Cambridge Climate Therapists.

Vanessa Andreotti

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Vanessa Andreotti is dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of Victoria. She has been a professor in the Department of Education at the University of British Columbia and the interim director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. She is also a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education. She is the author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism” and is one of the cofounders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/ Research Collective.

Rene Susa

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Rene Suša is a researcher-in-residence at the Pacific Institute For Climate Solutions, working in the field of climate education. His research and educational work focus on the methodology of social cartography as an approach to (collective) inquiry that can make visible the complexity of different positions and understandings related to the wicked and super-wicked global challenges of our time. Rene is also part of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective.

Cash Ahenakew

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Cash Ahenakew holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples’ Well-Being. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Education at the University of British Columbia. Cash is Plains Cree and is a member of the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation. His research is based on a commitment to the development of Indigenous theories, curriculum, pedagogies, and mixed methodologies. His work addresses the complexities at the interface between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledges, education, methodology, and ceremony.

Sharon Stein

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Sharon Stein is an associate professor in the Department of Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research asks how (higher) education can prepare people to respond to “wicked” social and ecological problems in responsible and reparative ways and can support people to unlearn harmful and unsustainable habits of knowing and being. She is author of “Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education.”

Chief Ninawa Inu Huni Kui

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Chief Ninawa Inu Huni Kui is a hereditary chief of the Huni Kui Indigenous people of the Amazon and the elected president of the Huni Kui Federation of the state of Acre. He is the dean of the Faculty of Living Systems of the Huni Kui University of the Forest in the Amazon and a research partner in several projects related to Indigenous and Earth rights. He was the International Indigenous Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in 2022 and 2023 at the University of British Columbia. Chief Ninawa is a global advocate against the financialization of Nature and false climate solutions, and the lead author of the Climate FRAUD framework.

Rebecca Nestor

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Rebecca Nestor is a climate activist, facilitator, and organizational consultant who supports people and organizations in dealing with the emotional impacts of the climate crisis. Her doctoral work examined emotional experience in organizations that engage the public on climate change. She is a board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance.

Gillian Ruch

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Gillian Ruch is a Climate Psychology Alliance member who has worked alongside Rebecca Nestor for the past two years engaging in and supporting the development of Climate Cafés. With a background in social work practice, education, and research Gillian is committed to helping people integrate the psychological and social experiences that the climate crisis is provoking.

Julian Manley

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Julian Manley is a professor of social innovation at the University of Central Lancashire. He has authored and edited books and articles about social dreaming, including “Social Dreaming: Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect” and “(with Susan Long) Social Dreaming: Philosophy, Research, Theory and Practice. He is a director of the Centre for Social Dreaming.”

Bec Davison

Bec Davison has worked in the social care and health sector for thirty years with people who are homeless, use drugs, and have been excluded from society because of trauma, poverty, and a lack of opportunity. As a dedicated freelancer, she channels her expertise into serving underrepresented groups, individuals, and teams, advocating for their voices to be heard and challenging traditional approaches. Her work in research has been marked by a commitment to amplifying seldom-heard voices, challenging orthodoxy, and pioneering innovative research methods to better serve communities.

Sophy Banks

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Sophy Banks has spent time as an engineer, radical footballer, and therapist. In 2006 she joined the Transition movement, creating local responses to global challenges. She helped start the first “Heart and Soul” group, anchored “inner” work within the movement, and cofounded Transition Training, taking the transition process to communities around the world. Since 2013 Sophy has cofacilitated shared spaces for grief and trains facilitators in “Apprenticing to Grief ” workshops. She also teaches Healthy Human Culture, a trauma-informed approach to cultural design.

Harriet Sams

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Harriet Sams is an ecotherapist, mentor, animist guide, teacher, and writer. She is a member of the board of the charity Radical Joy for Hard Times. Harriet currently runs “attending to place” workshops through the Tariki Trust, among other ecospiritual teaching modules. Harriet co-hosts Through the Door workshops for the Climate Psychology Alliance. She runs ecospirituality workshops, one-to-one offerings, and ritual circles online and in Cumbria, UK.

Matthew Adams

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Matthew Adams is a principal lecturer in psychology in the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton, UK. His most recent book is Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-than-Human World.

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