Action in a Time of Anxiety (Clean Energy for All Webinar – PA Sierra Club)

From the PA Sierra Club:

This is a critical and extraordinarily challenging moment in our history. While we know we must come together to defend our communities and planet, we’re also experiencing heightened emotions of anxiety, grief, and despair about climate change that can feel debilitating. Being bombarded daily with the awful news coming out of the White House only adds to a sense that maybe our efforts are fruitless, that maybe there isn’t any hope that we can make a difference.

At Sierra Club Pennsylvania, we want you to know that you’re not alone in the struggle to navigate these difficult emotions. We’re turning to experts to help us understand and honor our feelings, and learning how to turn our anxiety into action, our grief into love, and our despair into a hope grounded in reality and guided by our values.

We invite you to join us on this journey! In a very special episode of the Clean Energy for All series, we’ll hear first from eco social worker Bailey Fullwiler about navigating the mental health impacts of climate injustice and environmental trauma. Then, Sierra Club PA staff will share how they are working through their complex emotions to continue fighting for a better world.

Let’s kick-off Earth Month by being in community, coming together at a time when so many seek to drive us apart.

Sign up here.

Speaker: Bailey Fullwiler (She/Hers) is workplace mental health consultant that supports climate and environmental organizations in organizational and community-level approaches to resilience. Bailey’s background is in social work and supporting communities in navigating mental health impacts of climate injustice and environmental trauma. In addition to her workplace consulting, Bailey researches ecological grief and partners with environmental groups to honor the grief around environmental degradation or species loss through facilitated support groups and ecological mourning practices. Outside of her roles, Bailey is a trauma-informed yoga instructor who teaches with the nonprofit Queer Behavior and in local halfway houses.
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If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call or text 988 or chat 988Lifeline.org.

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About the Clean Energy for All Education & Action Series

The bi-monthly series highlights the critical energy issues Pennsylvanians are facing, focusing on the inequitable impacts of dirty fuels on our communities and the challenges of ensuring a just clean energy transition for ALL.

In this series, you will:

• hear from dynamic organizers fighting on the frontlines of climate justice,
• learn about the industries and technologies that affect energy opportunities in Pennsylvania, and
• receive guidance, tools, and support to take immediate action.

Signup Instructions: Zoom link and call-in details will be sent after registration.

Additional Directions: We strive to make programming accessible for everyone! Automated closed captioning will be available. If you require other accommodations, please let us know on your registration form and an organizer will be in touch.