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Feb 28, 2018 https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/speaking daily 0.75 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1580439060160-C1OSSVGPWKZ1IJGEHYCX/Atkinson_Weight%2Bof%2Bnature.jpg Speaking https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/publications daily 0.75 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/f4821702-f4c4-4ac9-93e3-eab8996ed628/Atkinson%26Ray+Cover_Lrg.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1589346043874-O01CE4QQ7BCLF5NFTW9Z/NPR.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1580105007028-1M2CE5QF12OUDCDKICNR/Gardenland.jpg https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1582575335008-4ZR21UR4JR8IUYE0CQ45/Jennifer+Atkinson About - Dr. Jennifer Atkinson is a Teaching Professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington, Bothell. Her seminars on Eco-Grief & Climate Anxiety have been featured in the New York Times, NPR, National Geographic, Washington Post Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, the Seattle Times, Grist, the Washington Post, and many other outlets. Jennifer is author or The Existential Toolkit for the Climate Crisis: How to Teach in a Burning World (co-edited with Sarah Jaquette Ray), a book that offers strategies to help young people navigate the emotional toll of climate breakdown. She regularly collaborates with youth activists, psychologists, climate scientists and policy makers beyond the university to lead seminars on climate and mental health. Her podcast Facing It also provides tools to channel eco-anxiety into action. Currently, Jennifer is coordinating a team of interdisciplinary scholars and activists from around the world in examining the role of despair and hope within the Climate Generation, as featured on the website "An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators” (a project supported by a grant from the Rachel Carson Center in Munich). Jennifer is also the author of Gardenland: Nature, Fantasy and Everyday Practice, a book that explores garden literature as a "fantasy genre" where people enact desires for social justice, joyful labor, and contact with nature. Her writing on the history of gardening in hard times has been featured on programs like NPR, The Conversation, and Earth Island Journal. 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Thousand Oaks, Mar 9, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1580165903359-TWSMZN8AKOJP1UVR2DBZ/Muhlenberg+video+still.jpg Video - Climate Depression & Environmental Angst: The Emotional Toll of Ecological Loss Muhlenberg College, Center For Ethics. "Crisis Earth: Ethics of the Anthropocene” series. February 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1580440896743-JGXRJHYKXR3GJMTEH3M6/image.jpg Video - Dr. Jennifer Atkinson on Teaching in the Age of Eco-Grief Big Planet, Big Feels podcast (Episode 2). Produced by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Madi Whaley. 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These include mental images that make you feel safe and calm as well as personal values and beliefs you can bring to mind to create a sense of internal tranquility and help you make wise and skillful decisions in the midst of adversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583002105299-0HJNJP7W2QOTRFAYVGJM/Screen+Shot+2020-02-29+at+10.46.12+AM.png Circles of Support - Put your name in the middle of a blank piece of paper. Then, draw a circle around it and within the circle note all of your personal strengths and skills you can identify that help you deal with adversity. Take your time, dig deep, and note all of your strengths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583003414930-MJBYRX1A18CH6UHBFQFJ/Screen+Shot+2020-02-29+at+11.09.26+AM.png Circles of Support https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583002610579-9723HD4OMWL0HP7K57SR/Screen+Shot+2020-02-29+at+10.47.14+AM.png Circles of Support https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583003203284-U386X1RCU1XQXBWZH14M/Screen+Shot+2020-02-29+at+10.58.01+AM.png Circles of Support https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583003160182-ZHQKM74SOH4TC84L23XH/Screen+Shot+2020-02-29+at+10.58.35+AM.png Circles of Support https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583002413153-SGWB8XHB75VPOCH8IKEG/Screen+Shot+2020-02-29+at+10.46.56+AM.png Circles of Support https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/manifesto daily 0.75 2022-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583048219148-9AT56NY55UVF9GBGU0EO/Field+Guide.jpg Manifesto https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/general-1 daily 0.75 2020-05-12 https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/letter daily 0.75 2020-03-03 https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/outdoor daily 0.75 2020-03-05 https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/survival daily 0.75 2020-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685656804-Q9GBRN0NAL6DVNVQUCHS/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Survival GRADING Scores will be based on the following criteria: Clear Purpose: Projects must include a 1-2 page cover letter clearly explaining what the project is, along with its purpose, its intended audience or users, and your group's rationale for designing the climate survival kit the particular way you did. Relevance to Environmental Grief & Climate Anxiety: Your final project should demonstrate that you have remained engaged in the readings and class discussions from the quarter by reflecting some of the concepts, theory and knowledge we learned in class. Audience: Projects should be addressed toward a particular audience (which your group will determine). Keep in mind the individuals or general public who read/view your climate survival kit have not taken this class. Will it make sense to them? Effort & Creativity: your project should demonstrate an appropriate level of effort for a 300-level college final. A general benchmark here might be 4-5 hours of outside work from each student in your group (so a total 20-25 hours of "collective" effort put into a group project). The amount of effort will vary from project to project, of course. The most important thing to keep in mind is that a sloppy project thrown together the night before is not likely to earn a high score. https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/breathe daily 0.75 2020-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583870372537-BZGNXIDFB4GTI48VL008/image-asset.jpeg Breathe https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/imagine-future daily 0.75 2020-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685656804-Q9GBRN0NAL6DVNVQUCHS/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Imagine Future - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685656804-Q9GBRN0NAL6DVNVQUCHS/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Imagine Future - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/workshops daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1620154829898-GFH9VRT2YVVTGSXOZUBX/image-asset.jpeg Workshops & Activities - Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1582848148386-HNFN5CY595FHLYKA8A78/IMG_9950.jpg Workshops & Activities - Spectrum Line of Ecological Emotions This exercise gets participants moving around the room to introduce concepts like eco-grief, climate anxiety and fear, and other ecological emotions. By moving to points that align with one’s emotional state, different affects are made visible within a group gathering. The activity is adapted from Panu Pihkala. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/728220a7-e842-444b-9156-babcaea1692d/TJ+Navarro.png Workshops & Activities - Sculpture-based activity Creative play with sculpture can activate the imagination while helping individuals process and develop new understanding about ecological and climate justice issues in a non-linguistic format. Using modelling clay and one's hands, participants explore subjective responses and experiment with communicating meaning visually through the use of shape, metaphors and form. Especially among those with little to no art training, clay is one of the more versatile and accessible materials for engaging participants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1611272532570-9DK14ARTKMKZY5O5YHKE/image.jpg Workshops & Activities Gratitude Practice An extensive body of research shows that practicing gratitude has wide-ranging personal and social benefits. A gratitude-based mindset can strengthen relationships, improve physical and mental health, enhance empathy and reduce aggression, increase our happiness and resilience ... and even improve sleep! This 10-minute, small group activity asks participants to share what they’re grateful for and ultimately identify ways that practicing gratitude can support social and environmental justice. The module is based on activities developed by Joanna Macy in Active Hope and Krista Hiser at the Univeristy of Hawaii. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1619204861540-NI99RIUUSO4BOEVQX0MT/great-auk-carried-aloft+photo+by+persephone+pearl.jpg Workshops & Activities - Rituals of Collective Mourning Mourning rituals bring visibility to unacknowledged injustice through public expression of outrage or grief. This activity guides participants through the process of creating memorials or rituals to recognize and process climate injustice; when we name and collectively recognize the tragedy of ecological loss, we engage in an ethical protest against modes of thought that trivialize the annihilation of “other” lifeforms. Activities are paired with suggested readings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583367829888-95KXX86M28ZL73PNRUBN/image-asset.jpeg Workshops & Activities - Seventh Generation This “deep time ritual” is from Joanna Macy’s “The Work That Reconnects,” and uses role-playing to help us see the impact of our present actions within a larger time frame — including that of humans seven generations in the future. The group is split into present-day and future individuals, with the organizer facilitating a conversation between them to envision how today’s efforts could be experienced two centuries from now. As radiologist Rosalie Bertell once said: “Every being who will ever live on Earth is here now. Where? In our gonads and ovaries and in our DNA.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1582848487375-C4MF6CSY21P35Y7MR7MH/image-asset.jpeg Workshops & Activities - Controlled Breathing This activity guides participants through 5 simple steps for using controlled breathing to support self-regulation. Science is just beginning to provide evidence that the benefits of this ancient practice are real. Studies have found, for example, that breathing practices can help reduce symptoms associated with anxiety, insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and attention deficit disorder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583047599546-X2NGRU98EJMCK1LB8GSE/image-asset.jpeg Workshops & Activities - Manifesto or Mission Statement This activity from Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety asks students to write their own "manifestos," outlining why they care about the planet, why they care about suffering, and what they personally are uniquely positioned by skill or passion to do in the world. The declaration of intention and desire serves as a beacon to return to whenever one feels lost or overwhelmed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583004731482-UGD09A64SK2R6WXIDFQW/image-asset.jpeg Workshops & Activities - Circles of Support In his book Transformational Resilience, counseling psychologist and environmental scientist Bob Doppelt explains that “in the midst of trauma and stress, it is our family, friends, neighbors, and other members of our personal social support network who are most likely to provide the practical assistance and emotional sustenance needed to stabilize our nervous system.” This activity helps individuals identify personal strengths, skills, resources, and social networks available to them, which are vital to staying centered in the midst of social and ecological adversity. As Doppelt argues, “taking the time to deliberately remember and call on those circles of support is sometimes all that is needed to overcome a stressful situation.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1582848985078-GYA18RRU876NL2VLLX6S/image-asset.jpeg Workshops & Activities - You’ve Got Mail This activity helps individuals identify an insight or "a-ha moment" that was especially meaningful to them from your course (or even from a single meeting or workshop), and document that insight as a "reminder" card addressed to their future self. The instructor or facilitator collects those cards and mails them to participants 6 months later to ensure follow-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562687156778-ALA6EPCHKVZJKBRORFX0/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Workshops & Activities - Outdoor Activity This activity invites participants to directly engage with the natural world through two outdoor experiences of their choice. Following these outings, participants post a short written reflection on the significance of their experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583276051011-GW639SNF96KPNYK3YUGN/Photo+by+NOAA+on+Unsplash.jpg Workshops & Activities - Climate “Survival Kit” For this project, students work in groups to design a Climate Change "Survival Kit" that helps others navigate the anger, grief, and despair that can arise in the face of our ecological crisis. The project can take whatever form a group deems appropriate (a website or handbook, a proposal for a retreat or support group, a video, an art exhibit). The primary purpose is to help students synthesize, reflect upon, and evaluate the usefulness of various resources they have encountered over the course term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1583461729716-NX32FBQZKVI7IVCPXK7O/image-asset.jpeg Workshops & Activities Imagining the Future: Video & Discussion check back soon…. https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/environmental-humanities daily 0.75 2021-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588365263824-0HJYWDLG0T3C1K3T6TPG/Screen+Shot+2020-05-01+at+1.31.44+PM.png Environmental Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588365375209-0EL6FSDCDT0ISNM3X1SO/Screen+Shot+2020-05-01+at+1.32.00+PM.png Environmental Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588365347836-OH0MG03UNZUTR2TUOJEO/Screen+Shot+2020-05-01+at+1.31.51+PM.png Environmental Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588365228347-737V0WWT97CNBKBUC6YJ/Screen+Shot+2020-05-01+at+1.31.33+PM.png Environmental Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685630388-B9SG9KEVIYIE8V1E242C/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Environmental Humanities Cunsolo and Landman: "To Mourn Beyond the Human." https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/newsletter daily 0.75 2020-04-29 https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/storytelling daily 0.75 2020-05-12 https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/language daily 0.75 2020-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685656804-Q9GBRN0NAL6DVNVQUCHS/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Language - Title Text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685656804-Q9GBRN0NAL6DVNVQUCHS/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Language - Title Text. https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/imagine-alternatives daily 0.75 2020-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685656804-Q9GBRN0NAL6DVNVQUCHS/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Imagine Alternatives - Title text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5a514d65019f01a2cb2be5/1562685656804-Q9GBRN0NAL6DVNVQUCHS/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Imagine Alternatives - Title text https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/arts daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588397092761-CX7U5OVA94TTMCVB8FBP/AroHa_02.jpg Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588398963281-8IMQCO6Y13YIHXRANQXJ/Screen+Shot+2020-05-01+at+10.55.12+PM.png Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588400348213-PWDJGV36C6QDVYU9KWOL/High+ice.jpg Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588400932068-PCW27IFMNKKRKJ0H1YLU/Screen+Shot+2020-05-01+at+11.28.05+PM.png Arts “Unbearable” is a shared project between Danish Artist Jens Galschiøt and the WWF. See additional monuments to ecological loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1588402617919-YDWSJBOPPWGYW5ECNE4N/Screen+Shot+2020-05-01+at+12.42.05+PM.png Arts - Activity: design your own ritual or memorial At the end of this essay, Persephone Pearl says "We need to imagine and invent new rituals for the Anthropocene … What would a memorial for the Caspian tiger or the elephant bird look like? A memorial for the Great Barrier Reef? For 350 parts per million of atmospheric CO2?” Choose an environmental or climate justice issue of personal significance to you. If you were to design a memorial, ritual, or other tribute to commemorate this loss, what would it look like? Describe this in detail, and include visual sketches or other images. https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/sculpture daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/d236fc08-a114-4631-8693-1a34c64e3541/clay_0255.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/2708ddb1-44b6-477d-baef-f1f241fb5fd1/TJ+Navarro.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/8a42d0ff-ab40-4497-9086-ecccc115f556/6576.jpg https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/practicing-gratitude daily 0.75 2022-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1611290671294-YFD6NIA96CV1QDEB0NIH/image-asset.jpeg Practicing Gratitude - Other Options for Creating a Gratitude Practice: Keep a daily gratitude journal, either for yourself or to share with someone else. Make a daily gratitude post on social media that you share with people you like and trust. Write letters of gratitude to specific people, perhaps one a week. You do not actually have to send them if you do not want to, but just the act of writing them can be encouraging. Get together for a “gratitude lunch” where you share things for which you are thankful (make sure to hold space for people to be honest in their emotions, but keep the focus on gratitude rather than complaints). Be mindful of your language on a daily basis. If you find yourself complaining about something and you cannot really do anything about it right now, see if you can reframe the situation in a more positive way. Or shift your attention to some of the better things in your life right now. Practice gratitude at odd moments, even for the seemingly smallest things. If you take a big, deep breath, be grateful in that moment that your lungs are able to draw in air and that the air is clean enough to breathe. When you get into bed at night, feel gratitude for the relaxation that settles over you and the opportunity to let yourself rest. In the chat box….do you have a gratitude practice you would like to share? For yourself, or ways to practice gratitude in the classroom? https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/mourning-rituals daily 0.75 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1619307199803-PSXOYAXR66I63V1DQ3W9/AlbatrossMandala_Chris+Jordan_2010.jpg Mourning Rituals On Midway Island, far from the centers of world commerce, albatross commonly die from ingesting plastic. “Albatross Mandala,” created and photographed by Chris Jordan, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1619307905230-KPPTUHGS3WN8ZL4CHB17/PassengerPigeon1_+EmilyLaurens_KeelyClarke_2014.jpg Mourning Rituals A memorial to the passenger pigeon on a beach in Wales by Emily Laurens. Photograph: Keely Clarke, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2dd59d90968a1bd3518c74/1619307335018-L978F83VPY3E6HDZQ22Q/great-auk-carried-aloft+photo+by+persephone+pearl.jpg Mourning Rituals As part of the Remembrance Day for Lost Species, mourners commemorate the Greak Auk. 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