During this online gathering sponsored by the Social Justice Committee, CPA-NA members Maria Vamvalis and Jeremy Lehrer will host a members-only circle to hold space for feelings arising about Gaza and Israel. Rising tensions related to Gaza are painful in their own right and they are also harbingers of what is to come in our unstable world - a world in which relationality is increasingly threatened - particularly in the context of climate change and its related politics of reaction.

The CPA-NA Executive Committee believes it is part of our mission to practice and support each other in restoring relationality by holding multiple truths, staying with and connecting through exceedingly difficult feelings, and remaining in conversation. We aim to practice and provide for ourselves what we hope to then offer others, now and into the future.

Meet the hosts:

Jeremy Lehrer, a writer and member of the CPA-NA's social justice committee, is currently pursuing a master's degree in social work at Columbia University.

Maria Vamvalis (PhD Candidate) is a consultant, educator, facilitator and researcher. She works collaboratively to strengthen collective abilities to imaginatively and powerfully respond to current crisis points and structural injustices with purpose, meaning, hope, agency and impact to create more equitable and regenerative realities. Her doctoral research focuses on how to educate for climate justice in ways that nurture collective well-being. Maria has worked with diverse organizations and networks committed to expanding civic space, strengthening education and responding to the climate crisis in just and relationally restorative ways

Please contact rebeccaweston@climatepsychology.us with questions.

Image from Combatants of Peace.

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