This event is included in a series of seminars organised in collaboration with the Therapy and Social Change Network
We cannot ignore that climate change has become an everyday reality affecting us all, the whole planet, communities and its natural habitats. Natural disasters can be seen as manifestations of how humanity, particularly non-indigenous cultures, have put themselves and their needs before everything else, using and abusing the environment. This means that we are actually engaging in self-harming as nature is us and we are nature.
This webinar will present some ideas about rewilding therapy practices, recognizing the power of nature, that we are simply guests and custodians, with a socio-political responsibility as activists-therapists to challenge traditional way of delivering therapy, to offer ethical and innovative practices to meet the increasing need for mental health support and community building.
The webinar will share some practice examples of ecotherapy and community building based on Chiara’s developing ecosystemic practice in Nature in the local community in Brighton.
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Chiara Fortina Santin is an Italian woman in her fifties. Born in a middle-class family near the Italian Alps and lakes, she landed in Sussex, (UK) in her adult life with her partner, an academic and researcher, as economic migrants in search for jobs and a better future.
Chiara went to the University of Brighton and studied Social Science and Psychology, to pursue her passion for working with children, young people and their families in the community. She then worked ten years in Social Care whilst pursuing the Systemic and Family Therapy Clinical Master training which she completed in 2008. She also attained a qualification in Systemic Supervision in 2012.
Chiara has been teaching on systemic courses for twelve years, enjoying seeing students blossoming in their way of connecting to systemic ideas and apply them in their working contexts. As an independent systemic and family psychotherapist, she has been working with adoptive families since 2012. In the last seven years she has developed her ecosystemic practice in Nature and is passionate about depathologise, decolonise mental health support via Nature and community building. She is now more focused on nature-based therapeutic interventions, community work and ecosystemic online groups.
She loves colours, creativity, dancing, doing and making. She is committed to social justice, self-reflexivity, multiple languages and diversity in dialogue.
Chiara has written various articles and more recently she has published a book on Rewilding Therapy. Ecosystemic Theory and practice. Available on Amazon.
The Therapy and Social Change (TaSC) Network is a broad affiliation of people interested in exploring the interface between therapeutic ideas and practices and social justice perspectives and actions. We are interested both in the ways that counselling and psychotherapy can be practiced with social justice concerns in mind (for instance, tackling unconscious biases in the consulting room), and also in the ways that therapeutic principles and practices can be extended out to the wider social realm (for instance, developing social and emotional literacy in schools).
