Hosted by: Rosemary Davies-Janes & Kevin Young

What happens when grief isn't personal, when it belongs to the land, the climate, and the fractured relationship between humans and the living world? Join us as climate psychologist, systems thinker and trauma therapist, Steffi Bednarek moves this conversation from the personal to the planetary, and from the clinical to the deeply, wildly human. She suggests that our epidemic of depression, anxiety, and disconnection may not be a malfunction, but an unanswered call to an unnamed grief so large, Western psychology barely has the language for it.

Steffi also explores: - How the fragmentation of modern life is itself a form of trauma - What it means to grieve the land, the climate, and the living world - What older traditions of keening, ritual, and belonging to place offer us now - Why life today feels hollowed out—and what that longing might be telling us

This series began with a focus on personal loss. This final episode turns the lens on our innate global grief—for the world we're losing. A grief we're systematically denied by our cultural fragmentation and exile from the Interspace.

About Steffi Bednarek, Founder and Director of the Centre for Climate Psychology

A climate psychologist, Gestalt Psychotherapist, systems thinker, IFS therapist, founder and director of the Centre for Climate Psychology, Steffi is the editor of, Climate, Psychology and Change, a book which has been called "a work of wisdom and radical ideas."

With over 25 years of experience in systemic change and trauma therapy, Steffi invites a reimagining of our place in the web of life and advocates for the restoration of Soul in the collective culture.

Her work has supported national governments, the corporate sector, global financial institutions, the sustainability sector and large NGOs. She equips individuals and organisations to address the urgent need for regenerative change in ways that go beyond the mere correction of what is visible on the surface.

Professionals across all sectors count on her support to stay resilient, adaptive, creative and responsive in the face of global upheaval, climate anxiety, and an increasing awareness of our systemic entanglement with the culture we try to change.

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Websites:

Steffi's Professional Website

Centre for Climate Psychology