for Building Resilience on the Edge of the Unknown
Hello and welcome! I’m Jane Finch and I’ve practiced as a psychotherapist for 26 years. While helping people manage mental health problems like depression and anxiety and improve their well-being by addressing problematic behaviors, as a clinical social worker I always had an eye on the external situations affecting their lives, moving out from their families and social circles to the broader political and environmental forces at play.
Now, I believe all life on this planet is under threat by these forces. My perspective has been influenced by my own and others’ more expert observations and research on how human resource consumption has catastrophically impacted critical ecosystems throughout the world. All life is under threat of collapse and even extinction.
There are so many amenities that we take for granted and completely rely upon every day: medical care and medicines, grocery stores overfull of food, hot water to shower with, gas to power our cars and our heaters, electricity to cook and cool off with. What if such basics were suddenly unavailable for longer than a typical storm outage? Would you be ready to practically and/or psychologically handle a societal breakdown on a major scale?
This SIMPLE course is designed for people who are aware and mostly accepting that it is up to us as individuals and small communities to do what we can to prepare for such disruptions and conscientiously live the best we can in the now. It provides practical guidance for processing past experiences and thwarted expectations so that attention to the present earthly gifts can be increased and resilience built for more effectively managing whatever is to come. It pivots on the development of honest connections with others who are similarly striving, offering antidotes to the growing problems of social anxiety, loneliness, and isolation.
Would you like to know more and maybe join such a group for at least 8 sessions and then see where that leads? Click on the Introduction link and read on!
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