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Climate Anxiety Support Group

Climate Anxiety Support Group

A safe space to understand and navigate climate anxiety, this group helps you build resilience and find meaningful ways to act. Connect with a supportive community to turn eco-anxiety into hope and agency.

Starts 5th February, 2025

4 Zoom sessions | Every Wednesday at 8 PM IST | 75 minutes

Confidential | Small group, 6-8 people

Group Type: Support Group

Includes 3 Free Peer Calls*

Led by therapist

Program Fee - INR 3000 (India) | USD 80 (Outside India) | Get 30% off if you buy for two

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Goals of the group

• Validate Emotions: Create a safe space for participants to express their feelings of anxiety, fear, guilt, or helplessness about the climate crisis.
• Foster Resilience: Equip participants with tools to manage and cope with their climate-related anxiety.
• Promote Collective Action: Help participants move from individual paralysis to a sense of agency and community action.
• Build a Supportive Network: Create connections among participants who share similar concerns about the environment.
• Encourage Meaningful Engagement: Explore ways to channel anxiety into meaningful actions and lifestyle changes.

Who is the Group For?

• Individuals experiencing distress or anxiety related to the climate crisis.
• People feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, or guilty about their environmental impact.
• Those interested in finding a supportive community to discuss their concerns and work towards constructive solutions

Glimpse of the regime

Session 1: Understanding Climate Anxiety

Goal: Understand how dating while managing a chronic medical condition can impact your emotional and mental well-being.

Discussion Points:
• Emotional fatigue: the psychological toll of dating with a chronic illness.
• Addressing feelings of inadequacy, frustration, and vulnerability.
• Strategies to manage stress and anxiety related to dating.
• Introduction to self-compassion, mindfulness, and coping techniques.

Session 2: Coping with Climate Anxiety

Goal: Gain clarity on the internal and external obstacles in the dating process, and identify self-sabotaging behaviors.

Discussion Points:
• Exploring limiting beliefs related to the chronic condition (e.g., "I’m too much to handle" or "No one will understand me").
• Identifying external barriers like stigma, fatigue, or accessibility issues.
• Techniques to overcome self-sabotage and build self-acceptance.
• Making space for another person emotionally and logistically.

Session 3: Finding Meaning and Agency

Goal: Let go of past disappointments or fears related to dating with a chronic illness and develop emotional resilience.

Discussion Points:
• Discussing past dating experiences and emotional wounds connected to your condition.
• Healing and releasing these emotional blockages through reflective exercises.
• Understanding how vulnerability can be transformed into strength.
• Crafting new, empowering dating intentions based on your current needs and reality.

Session 4: Building Community and Moving Forward

Goals:
• Consolidate learnings and discuss long-term strategies.
• Build a support system and discuss ways to sustain motivation.

Activities:
• Group reflection on progress made during the sessions.
• Discussion on maintaining mental health while staying engaged with climate issues.
• Create a shared resource list or accountability group for post-workshop support.
• Gratitude exercise focusing on community and resilience.

Closing:
• Summarize key takeaways.
• Group affirmation.

Learn from us & from each other

  • This group helped me find clarity and take action.

    Nivaan

    Life-changing tools.

  • I felt truly supported and understood for the first time.

    Priya

    Supportive community.

  • Practical tools that transformed my perspective on eco-anxiety.

    Arjun

    Insightful discussions

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What are SoulUp Groups?

At SoulUp, you'll meet people who get what you're going through and might be living some of the same realities. People looking for extraordinary conversations, just like you.

✔️ Small group, 6-8 people

✔️ Every meeting led by a world-class facilitator

✔️ Weekly 75-minute online video sessions

What happens in a group session?

While the format can vary as per topic, here’s a flow that most sessions follow

Check In. Participants check-in with each others' feelings and answer the prompt given by the facilitator if any.

Conversation. Your facilitator will guide the group through free-flowing conversation coupled with some simple exercises or activities —with the goal of sharing openly, connecting to your emotions and learning specific skills.

Check Out. Participants share what they're taking away from the session.

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Are Group sessions done on video?

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4. SoulUp reserves the right to remove participants from a group if found unsuitable to the group. In such cases participants are given the option of claiming the pro-rata amount left as a refund or using it for another service on SoulUp.

* Are FREE Peer calls available to everyone who signs-up for this group?

You can book 3 Peer calls for FREE as part of signing up for this group.

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