I was invited to write a short piece for Psychology for a Safe Climate’s August 2024 newsletter about ‘My Climate Journey’: The Dance of Learning and Unlearning PSC August newsletter : Jacinda Kleidon, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, 2022. I was born into my human animal body, jaundiced and underweight and …
The Uk-based, Climate Psychology Alliance, published a personal reflection piece I wrote for their e-journal, “Explorations in Climate Psychology”. Below are the first three paragraphs, here is the full article. I belong to Italian migrants and the first generation of my family born on Aboriginal Land. I live and work …
This article was written for the QIFT Blog. Before I trained in systemic family therapy, I did not know that I would become enamoured by general system theory and cybernetics. Nor did I realise the depth of appreciation I would feel for the paradigm shift that a systemic lens would bring to …
An article I wrote, based on my Master Mental Health (Family Therapy) research project, was published in the special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy in March 2022. You can read the full article here. The practice of integrating various therapeutic disciplines and models in …
Our Distance from Nature: Attending to the Human-Natural World Relationship. Artwork by Steven Falco @procreativ Since colonisation and the introduction of dominant political, economic and social systems, the human-natural world relationship has been disrupted from one of connection and balance to one of distance. Modern life separates humans from nature. …
A memoir can help us feel less alone, connecting us with another who has faced a difficult life experience similar to our own. At the same time it can also reveal how we each uniquely meet our challenges. Following the sudden death of her father, Helen Macdonald generously shares the …
In Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars, Martine Murray has found a gripping but gentle way to introduce children to the world of plant energy. The story begins with Molly’s mother gathering herbs one morning, in the nearby forest. When Molly wakes she senses something in the air …
Books are essential for author, Jeanette Winterson. As a child she relied on them for comfort and solace, and in adulthood, writing is her purpose. She was first published in 1985 at the age of twenty-five and won several awards for her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. …
