Through the Door US

These are times of great change and uncertainty. We are transiting a cultural threshold – going ‘through the door’ – and this requires relinquishing the ‘normal’  and being open to another reality. Between the desire to ‘Do Something’ and the feelings of overwhelm, is a third possibility, that of being with the unendurable feelings and engaging a different reality. Much anxiety accompanies this. The therapeutic training and practice we have had as practitioners may allow us to tolerate this anxiety, to stay with difficulties, to attend to unconscious processes and be containers, even catalysts, for transformation.

The workshop is an experience of feeling, thinking and imagining together that supports participants in their own version of going ‘through the door’ and finding new ways of feeling into the future that is coming towards us through the climate and ecological crises of our time. The aim is to inspire new forms of being and doing fit for the challenges of this uncertain time.

The facilitators

Steffi Bednarek is a psychotherapist, trauma therapist and organisational consultant. Steffi has published a wide range of articles on climate psychology and leadership issues and on wider socio political issues that affect our wellbeing. https://www.steffibednarek.com

Rebecca Nestor is a facilitator and organisational consultant, and a board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance. She has recently submitted her doctoral thesis  at the Tavistock Clinic on the experience of leaders in climate change organisations. www.rebeccanestor.co.uk