Training and Professional Development
Training seminars - either in person or online webinar
Cost: $260 hour
Topics include:
Cost: $260 hour
Topics include:
- Mental health and climate change
- Climate change governance for community organisations
- Towards zero waste
- Spirituality, faith and sustainability
- A Sustainability Map for organisations and businesses
- Professional practice for youth and community workers - an enviro lens
- Creative partnerships and possibilities
Here is a selection of feedback from the session:
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Testimonial from GROW Seminars NZ
Mental Health Awareness Week has been increasing in recognition over recent years, as there is a growing awareness of how mental health impacts so many other aspects of our lives. In 2020 and 2021, GROW offered a series of free webinars that included international and local experts talking about various aspects of mental health, and updating practitioners on trends, success stories and evolving best practice. Speakers came from universities, lived experience groups, not-for-profits, crisis services and clinicians - with speakers from the UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Australia and across New Zealand. These webinars attracted more than 5000 viewers. Every presenter shares their expertise that supports our vision of more compassionate and responsive mental health services across New Zealand. We invited Silvia to present in 2021 on the topic ‘Climate Change and Mental Health’. She talked about how climate change was affecting us and what we could do to promote wellbeing, for our clients and ourselves, in a time of climate crisis. Anxiety can overwhelm and immobilise and this session provided an overview of mental health challenges related to environmental concerns. Followed by a discussion on strategies for positive action. - Feona Horrex, Events Manager, GROW Seminars NZ |
Testimonials:
"Silvia built the workshop on the foundation of the values and experiences of everyone involved, making connections with the resource she brought to the table, and helping participants identify areas to address with action." Robyn McPhail
"Silvia spoke at our Young Adults gathering about Environmental Issues and Faith. She presented her topic extremely well and in a way that made it seem manageable and that we can make a difference environmentally without it feeling overwhelming." Jo Cotton, Young Adults Worker St. Barnabas Fendalton, Christchurch
"Silvia built the workshop on the foundation of the values and experiences of everyone involved, making connections with the resource she brought to the table, and helping participants identify areas to address with action." Robyn McPhail
"Silvia spoke at our Young Adults gathering about Environmental Issues and Faith. She presented her topic extremely well and in a way that made it seem manageable and that we can make a difference environmentally without it feeling overwhelming." Jo Cotton, Young Adults Worker St. Barnabas Fendalton, Christchurch
Comment by Joanna Macy: The Work That Reconnects
If you have an itch to display your expertise, that's counterproductive; it can get in the way of the work. What people most need to hear is inside them. It's their own inner voice, based on their own experience, their own perceptions. That is so often squelched and repressed that we tend to forget, and lose our own authority and energy to act to preserve our lives, our families, our world. So this is essentially truth work. We help people tell the truth about what they see and feel and know is happening to our world. And to tell the truth about their love for this world, and about their pain for this world as well.
If you have an itch to display your expertise, that's counterproductive; it can get in the way of the work. What people most need to hear is inside them. It's their own inner voice, based on their own experience, their own perceptions. That is so often squelched and repressed that we tend to forget, and lose our own authority and energy to act to preserve our lives, our families, our world. So this is essentially truth work. We help people tell the truth about what they see and feel and know is happening to our world. And to tell the truth about their love for this world, and about their pain for this world as well.
