Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg
Aimee Lewis-Reau
LaUra Schmidt
September 23, 2020, 6:30–8 PM (EST)
Archived streaming video of this event is available here.
In this webinar, Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, Aimee Lewis-Reau, and LaUra Schmidt of Good Grief Network will discuss our collective ability to create spaces where people come together, face the difficult realities of these times, and heal in community. Good Grief Network recognizes that big changes are afoot for the dominant paradigms. Through GGN’s process work, participants lean into painful feelings about the state of the world and begin deconstructing cultural narratives, thereby opening to the emergence of new ideas and perspectives. GGN’s small group spaces are ripe with hard truths and unending inspiration. “We focus on helping participants uncover their superpowers, at the intersection of where our skill sets meet our passions and experiences. We seek to redefine activism and personal agency in tumultuous times.”
How to Attend
This event is a virtual seminar (webinar). To attend you will need access to the Internet and a working copy of the Zoom desktop client, mobile app, or web client. These are available for free from this page. Zoom software is compatible with Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, and Linux computers and handheld devices. The Zoom web client is compatible with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Chromium Edge. University of Florida faculty, staff, and students are advised to download the software from UF’s Zoom portal.
Once you have downloaded and installed the Zoom software, when the webinar is scheduled to begin click on the Zoom webinar link noted above. No passcode entry is required to join the webinar. Once you have joined the webinar you will be able to see and hear the event speakers and view any media they share with the audience. You may interact with the speakers via Zoom’s Q&A feature and at the discretion of the event moderator.
About the Speakers
Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg is Good Grief Network’s Interim Executive Director. She holds a JD in environmental and natural resources law from the Lewis & Clark Law School. She has traveled to southern Mongolia to help protect nomadic herding rights from destructive mining projects, and attended two UN Climate Change Negotiations, in Durban and Paris, to support small Pacific island nations in their efforts to create a just and equitable international climate change treaty.
Aimee Lewis-Reau is Good Grief Network’s Co-founder and lead facilitator. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Georgia College & State University. A certified yoga instructor, Lewis-Reau DJ’s in her spare time because, as Alice Walker observed, “Hard times require furious dancing.”
LaUra Schmidt is the Founding Director of Good Grief Network. She holds an MS in Environmental Humanities from University of Utah. A Climate Reality Leadership Corps member and mentor, she spent time in Americorps serving coastal Louisiana after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
This event is free and open to the public. No advance registration is required.
“Feeling & Healing Through the Anthropocene” is sponsored by Imagining Climate Change.