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Active Hope: Navigating Climate Grief & Anxiety

Start Time

19:00

End Time

20:30

Date

May 5, 2025

Location

101, 211 Bear Street

Wild Flour Bakery

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About the Event

Are you feeling the emotional weight of the climate crisis, seeking community and tools for resilience, or looking to transform grief into active hope? Join Daryl Kootenay and the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley for a participatory workshop that explores climate grief and anxiety through the lens of Indigenous (Stoney Nakoda) worldviews and Climate Psychology. Drawing on Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, we’ll engage in activities that help participants process difficult emotions, reconnect with one another, and find hope through collective action. Together, we’ll cultivate resilience, courage, and active hope, transforming despair into meaningful steps toward healing and positive change for our planet.

About the Host

The Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley empowers community leadership to address environmental challenges. Our work addresses human-wildlife coexistence and climate change through three core programs: WildSmart Community Program, Shift: Climate Transitions, and Future Leaders.

We also serve as a community hub where citizens can access local environmental information, learn about how to get involved in conservation programs, and build ideas for new community-led initiatives.

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Interested in being an Ambassador

What is the purpose of the week?

 

The week seeks: to increase awareness about the mental health and addiction issues affecting Bow Valley residents, to increase awareness of the mental health and addiction services available to residents, to create a systems level response to the mental health and addiction challenges in our community through a collaborative and coordinated approach, and to break down the social barrier of mental health stigma through community initiatives and conversations. 

 

What does an ambassador do?

​Ambassadors share their own lived mental health experience to inform the community about the diversity of mental health and addiction illnesses, to help reduce the stigma, and to inspire recovery and hope.

 

Share Your Story - Ambassadors may be asked to share their stories and experience in a variety of ways, including written or video form, website and social media channels, public speaking, media interviews, or through podcasts.

 

Be an Advocate - Ambassadors may be asked to share their personal healthcare journey and experiences to support improvements to the local healthcare services.

 

Promote Mental Health and Addiction Awareness – Ambassadors may be asked to attend and support programs and activities to assist programmers, attendees and help increase awareness of the mental health and addiction.

 

Provide Feedback and Information - Ambassadors are asked to help us obtain feedback and be a stronger influencer on important issues affecting the wellbeing of our community and its residents. 

If you are interested in becoming an ambassador please e-mail bmhaw24@gmail.com along with a completed application

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