Global warming: A collective fever? Panel Event with Steffi Bednarek, Kira Cooper & Renee Lertzman

We stole the fire from the gods, and we have yet to learn how to wield it with maturity…

This dialogue is part of Alef Trust’s Nurturing the Fields of Change community of practice and programme for holistic transformation and social change, and open to all. Join us for an interactive panel event, exploring the profound relationship between global warming and the deeper ailments afflicting human civilization. Together we’ll explore how to make sense of the circumstances we face and what actions we can each take, wherever we are, to navigate what is coming. We are delighted to welcome leading edge practitioners and researchers in the field Steffi Bednarek, Kira Cooper and Renée Lertzman to explore the profound relationship between global warming and the deeper ailments afflicting human civilization. Together we’ll explore how to make sense of the circumstances we face and what actions we can each take, wherever we are, to navigate what is coming…

The climate emergency has become a defining narrative among many who sense the precariousness of our times. As average global temperatures transgress the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius, can we consider the inner dimensions of climate change? What if global warming is an eco-somatic response to the deeper psycho-social ailments gripping human civilisation? Is the earth responding with fever to cure us? As well as helping fight physical ill health, fevers can be a kind of spiritual medicine. They stop us in our tracks, slow us down, and put us into liminal states of consciousness which can help open the aperture of our awareness beyond ego. Is global warming a collective fever, opening humans to new ways of being and doing?