Earth Empathy Circles

5 online empaty circles in Swedish, English or Japanese.

We are  going to allow for sadness, mourning, and fear

about climate change and mass extinction. This is not an event that puts focus on ideas or strategies - if they dont come naturally out of the despair, but just share a space where we hope to contribute with empathy and shared mourning. We are also not looking for hope.

The story of climate change is the story of loss: the loss of trees, of polar bears, of whales, of bees and birds, of human beings. It is the loss of home, security, and even hope.

The grief that such loss engenders is unique in our time. Witnessing the death of all of life is more than the heart can hold, more than the individual psyche can integrate.

But we grieve because we love. “To the degree that your heart is…