MMI Campfire Chat: Combatting Climate Change Anxiety
by RCVS Mind Matters
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Wed, 17 November 2021
Mind Matters Initiative Hosts: Campfire Chats
The MMI Campfire chats are back! Join the MMI Team and our fantastic guests for an informal delve into themes and topics that matter to the veterinary community. Open to all, these free online panel sessions offer a chance to pause, reflect and learn from each other's experiences of navigating life and work.
Combatting Climate Change Anxiety
In this MMI Campfire Chat....
People worldwide experience climate change anxiety – a fear and sense of helplessness around climate change. We're constantly told about the physical dangers posed by climate change, but only recently has attention started to turn to the impact the climate crisis is having on people's mental health. In our Combatting Climate Change Anxiety Campfire Chat, we'll be discussing the ways in which we can harness hope, implement action, and use our connection to nature to create a more positive collective mindset.
Panel Guests
David is Managing Director of Paragon Veterinary Group, a fiercely independent mixed rural practice in Cumbria. He is a Director of Vet Sustain, established to inspire and enable vet professionals to address sustainability, and of VetSalus, an initiative developing livestock vet collaboration and consultancy globally. Clinical interests are in dairy practice, particularly reproduction and advanced breeding technologies including IVF. He is an Emeritus RCVS Recognised Specialist in Cattle Health and Production, Treasurer of the World Association for Buiatrics, and a member of the Dairy Science Forum. He is passionate about vet-led business, global veterinary collaboration, One Health and Veterinary Sustainability.
Alex Mullarky
Alex Mullarky is a Registered Veterinary Nurse who began work in 2017 in Australia and joined the UK register in 2020. As a volunteer she has helped raise joeys and trained to rescue injured birds of prey and marine mammals. She founded The Sustainable Vet Nurse community several years ago, which today has nearly 7,000 members. Alex has written for numerous environmental websites and became a National Geographic Explorer in 2017 for her expedition with wild horses in the Rhodope Mountains. Her first novel for children will be published in 2022.
Dr Sue Stuart-Smith
Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of The Well Gardened Mind, a Sunday Times Bestseller, listed as one of the 37 best books of 2020 by The Times and gardening book of the year by The Sunday Times and translated into fifteen languages.
She studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor and working in the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and is a consultant at DocHealth, a not for profit, psychotherapeutic consultation service for doctors. Her book, The Well Gardened Mind, analyses the relationship between gardening and mental health.
Dr Catriona Mellor
Catriona is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who has been working in the adolescent inpatient environment in the UK. She has an interest in the mental health impacts of the eco-crisis on children and young people as well as what nature-based practices and insights can add to mental health care.
She is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Sustainability Committee. Through this she is working with the Child and Adolescent Faculty in their response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency.
Currently one focus of this is on raising awareness and developing training and resources around eco distress (climate or eco-anxiety, climate grief and related experiences).
She is co-author on the recent Lancet Planetary Health paper "A global survey of climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change".
She has trained with The Natural Academy in Eco-Psychology and Nature Based Practice. She is using these insights to bring Nature into the centre of the health response to the CEE including via partnership working with The Wildlife Trusts, by piloting and evaluating novel ecotherapy interventions in the inpatient CAMHS setting and by disseminating training to other NHS staff.
Campfire Chat date and timings:
19:00 - 20:00 GMT UK time
There is no charge for this event.
CPD:
Don't forget, you can count this towards your CPD!
If you have any questions about the course please email Lisa Quigley, Mind Matters Manager l.quigley@rcvs.org.uk
Can you reserve me a place and I book at a later date?
Sorry, we are unable to reserve places, places are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
How can I access the event?
You will be emailed joining instructions a few days before the event.
Organiser RCVS Mind Matters
Organiser of MMI Campfire Chat: Combatting Climate Change Anxiety
RCVS Mind Matters
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