Curing Climate Trauma
Becoming Indigenous to Earth
The first step in resolving any trauma, whether personal, generational or biospheric, is acknowledgement. This illuminating psycho-synthesis of our shared meta-crisis offers a profound exploration of the root causes of climate chaos, and charts a clear path for the quantum social change needed for a viable future. By putting humanity on the couch, and rethinking what it means to be indigenous, panpsychologist Zhiwa Woodbury brings a new vision of planetary health into focus. Join him on this transformative journey of healing, compassion, and spiritual emergence.
About Zhiwa Woodbury
Panpsychologist (panpsychism-informed psychology), visionary and long time advocate for all things natural and wild, Zhiwa studied Thermodynamics, Science/Math and Communications at Southern Illinois University before obtaining a doctorate in Natural Law (1983). After a successful career advocating for wildlife and wild places, he returned to school and obtained an M.A. in East/West Psychology, with an emphasis on quantum eco-psychology and spiritual counseling, and also trained and served at world-renowned Zen Hospice in San Francisco. Zhiwa is a vajrayana practitioner who follows Hua-Yen philosophy and practices Kalacakra tantrayana. Author of a book on climate grief, Climate Sense ~ Changing the Way We Think & Feel About Our Climate in Crisis, and two influential lead articles in the peer reviewed journal Ecopsychology: "Climate Crisis & the Cosmic Bomb: Is the American Dream an Expression of Cultural Trauma" (Dec. 2015) and "Climate Trauma: Towards a New Taxonomy of Trauma" (March 2019). Zhiwa was a featured speaker and part of the inspiration for Thomas Hubl's inaugural Collective Trauma Summit, and a presented a model of climate grief at H.H. Dalai Lama's Mind & Life Conference (Harvard 2014). Zhiwa Blogs at PanpsychologyNow!