Advisors

Dr. Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of climate change. She is the creator of the weekly newsletter about “staying sane in the climate crisis” Gen Dread (gendread.substack.com) and author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, a book that investigates the psychological underpinnings and impacts of the climate crisis (Knopf 2022). She has hosted several podcasts, TV and radio programs with the BBC and CBC, and is a TED speaker.

Marshall specializes in the psychoanalytic understandings of the mind. He served as advisor for, and participated in, Renee Lertzman’s 2017 World Wildlife Fund seminar hosted at National Geographic Society, “Beyond Behavior Change: Redefining Demand Reduction for the Ivory Trade.” Author of Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire to Know in Classroom Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013), he is former Chair of the English Department at George Washington University.

Leslie expands the role of psychology into interdisciplinary dialogues about climate change solutions. She is a cofounder of the Institute for Health & Healing, one of the nation’s first and largest hospital-based integrative-medicine programs, and author of Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician’s Guide (Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2017).

Steven is an internationally recognized trainer in Motivational Interviewing, behavior change specialist and researcher with over 30 years’ experience. As a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, he conducts workshops and designs intervention protocols for national clinical-research trials. Numerous national magazines have featured his articles on making positive lifestyle changes.

Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, constellation facilitator and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal trauma and nourish self-warmth with exquisite gentleness. She teaches and lectures internationally, and is the author of the book Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing. She is currently at work on a second book, commissioned by W.W.Norton, on the relational neuroscience of the unconscious contracts that constellations so often let us disentangle.

Kristen Barker is the founder of One Earth Sangha.
 Kristin is exploring what it means to practice a robust response to environmental and social injustice. She is dedicated to cultivating broad-scale awakening to authentic earth relationship through living Dharma and advocacy. Kristin is a teacher and board member with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (DC), a GreenFaith fellow and graduate of the Community Dharma Leader program through Spirit Rock. Kristin is also a co-founder of White Awake whose mission is to develop awareness of race dynamics among white people. She holds a Master’s in Environmental Management from Duke University, has worked as an independent consultant and staff member at several environmental organizations. Kristin is a native of New Mexico and currently lives in Washington DC.

Caroline Hickman is an integrative psychosynthesis psychotherapist & Lecturer at the University of Bath, UK, and is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) for whom she has been developing an outreach program of trainings and workshops for schools and counsellors supporting people dealing with eco-anxiety. Caroline is also creating a series of podcasts on climate psychology and eco-anxiety, Climate Crisis Conversations—Catastrophe or Transformation. She has a TedX talk on climate psychology. She is researching children and young people’s feelings including eco-anxiety and eco-grief. She studies this in relation to the climate and biodiversity crisis using a psychosocial free association methodology. This helps to uncover and explore different stories, narratives, and images around our defenses against the difficult truth of the climate and biodiversity crisis. It also reveals hidden and less conscious feelings about climate anxiety, grief, the biodiversity crisis, and the Coronavirus. She is passionate about getting under the surface metaphorically and literally.