Eco Grief in community - practices of lament, courage, and radical joy.
February 1st we bring a heart focus to the Climate Cafe Multifaith as we address ecological grief, and expressions of lament, courage, and joy. Many of us need only look out our windows to see that there are fewer birds and native plants, and more crises such as fires, clearcuts, floods, and brownfields. The windows we look through are our own, yet the harm we see impacts all of us, humans, creatures, and insects alike. For February 1st, we share a conversation about this collective grief, as well as practices of hope for our beautiful garden earth.
Many faith traditions recognize the transition from winter to spring with stories and ritual. As we as faith leaders prepare to walk with our families and communities through Passover, Lent, and Ramadan, the subject of this Climate Cafe will offer hopeful ways to acknowledge the scale of environmental loss, while also equipping us with stories, steps and practices—courage!—to engage the heart, spirit, hands and feet in healing, hope, and radical joy.
Join us Tuesday, February 1st at 11:00am Pacific Time / 2:00pm Eastern Time, to share stories, hold prayer, and better understand not only what environmental grief can look like in community, but how we can respond. More about the Climate Cafe Multifaith. Register.
Rev. Alison Cornish and Trebbe Johnson will lead this important conversation.
Based in New England, Rev. Alison Cornish is a Unitarian Universalist community minister who has centered her work in drawing ecological practice together with interfaith traditions. Like many, she felt called to deepen her own theological study from encountering ecological crisis; it was Superstorm Sandy that led Rev. Cornish to focus an ecological focus on earth, grief, hope, and climate change.
Trebbe Johnson is the author of Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places, and three other books, as well as many articles and essays that explore the human bond with nature. She is also the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places. Trebbe speaks four languages; has camped alone in the Arctic wilderness; studied classical Indian dance; and worked as a model, a street sweeper in an English village, and an award-winning multimedia producer. She has led contemplative journeys in a clear-cut forest, Ground Zero in New York, the Sahara Desert, and other places. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
Cover photo is a compilation of three photos by Marcus Ganahl.