for Building Resilience on the Edge of the Unknown
Hello and welcome! I’m Jane Finch and I’ve practiced as a psychotherapist for 28 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.
For the first time in human history, all of us around the globe are threatened by forces that are beyond our control. When terrible events occurred in the past, they were localized and relatively temporary; many were lost but the pendulum swung back and many survived. Now the number of people who fear we won’t get beyond these current crises is growing. Environmental degradation, the infiltration of plastics even into our cells, the frequency of natural disasters, wars, famines, rich people grabbing for still more billions at whatever the cost to the other 99% of us – if you are here and still reading, you know all of this.
This SIMPLE group is designed for people who are aware and accept that it is up to us as individuals and small communities to do what we can to prepare for major disruptions and conscientiously live the best we can in the now. It provides practical guidance for processing past experiences and thwarted expectations so attention to the many earthly gifts that remain 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 join a group of up to 8 members for 12 sessions with the possibility of a “grad group” to enable continuing contact and support? Click on the Introduction link and read on!
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