Friday Night Talk: The Emotional Landscape of Ecological Loss [HYBRID] with Adam Lobel

This evening talk explores the emotional landscape of ecological loss and how it impacts us on a personal and collective level. 

The ecological losses include the extinction of species, destruction of natural habitats, and climate change overall. What are the costs of failing to recognize the emotional landscape of ecological loss - including feelings of grief, anxiety, despair and paralysis? What resources are available, even in the midst of grim circumstances, to transform the climate crisis from the inside out?

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a Q&A session, allowing them to ask questions and engage in dialogue with the facilitator and other attendees.

This event serves as a great introduction to the Silent Transformations workshop the following day, but is also a stand-alone talk. For the first time in our Friday Night Talk series, this will be a hybrid event where participants are invited to join either in-person, or online via Zoom.

Silent Transformations is an educational cooperative bringing together mindfulness, ecopsychology, environmental justice, and climate education into transformational programming.

The objective of Silent Transformations is to support and educate individuals, communities, and institutions experiencing the psychological stresses and injustices of the environmental crisis. Our process aims to turns eco-anxiety into eco-responsivity.

Adam Lobel, PhD, is a practitioner-scholar of philosophy and religion and served as a longtime teacher (acharya) in the Shambhala tradition.

A speaker on ecology and spirituality at the United Nations, he was part of the first delegation of Buddhist teachers invited to the White House under President Obama. He leads ecodharma workshops called "Silent Transformations," has taught alongside Joanna Macy and others in the Ecosattva Training, is a Greenfaith fellow, and is active in ecopsychology, ecological, and social justice movements. Adam's teachings focus on Great Perfection Tibetan Buddhism, modern phenomenology, and inoperative studies (Heidegger, Foucault, Agamben). As a founding practitioner-educator at the City of Bridges High School, he has a longstanding interest in progressive contemplative education and transformative pedagogy. A professor of Buddhist and phenomenological psychology, he is curious about a cultural therapeutics for our collapsing society. He remains attuned-to an awakened, just, terrestrial society. Adam teaches a critical style of contemplative training that seeks to avoid enclosure in neoliberal mindfulness while still disclosing effortless awareness.

Friday Night Talks begin at 7 pm Eastern, (8 Atlantic, 5 Mountain, 4 Pacific time). All paid registrants receive a link to the zoom recording early the following week.

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