you're invited to:
Climate Grief
& Collective Care
Explore the tender process and powerfully regenerative outcomes of grieving a climate that's in crisis, together.
with Aimee Lewis Reau, LaUra Schmidt & Mirabai Starr
March 2, 2025 • 11am PT
Why this Topic?
Grief is a normal, human response to the harm we are causing the Earth and each other. While others look to pathologize climate grief or perhaps ignore it altogether, we aim to welcome & explore it.
At Good Grief Network, we bring people together to process all of our potent emotions surrounding the climate crisis, otherwise known as our climate distress. It includes emotions, such as: grief, fear, rage, anxiety, or overwhelm. In community, we build emotional intelligence and stretch our distress tolerance so we can free up space in our mind/hearts to radically imagine new ways of existing and begin to co-create life-supporting systems.
Come spend time with LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis Reau, the founders of Good Grief Network & authors of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate, while they speak with Mirabai Starr about the beauty they’ve witnessed when folks come together to grieve, connect, and dream.
About Aimee Lewis Reau & LaUra Schmidt
Aimee (she/her) is the cofounder of Good Grief Network. She enjoys teaching: facilitation, poetry, yoga, and intuitive movement. Aimee finds solace in rivers, trees, and being an auntie. As an edgy and reverent contemplative, she obsesses about language and all things ineffable. You can hear her as DJ EXis10shAL on Spotify.
LaUra (she/her) is the founder of the Good Grief Network. She is a truth seeker, community builder, teacher, program designer, and facilitator. LaUra has long been captivated by the human condition. She is a lifelong student, curator, and practitioner of personal and collective resilience strategies. Inspiration finds her in natural landscapes and honest, open-hearted dialogue.
LaUra & Aimee are the authors of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet.
About Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher. In 2020, she was honored on Watkins’ list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. Drawing from 20 years of teaching Philosophy and World Religions and a lifetime of practice, Mirabai shares her wisdom worldwide on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and the transformational power of grief and loss. She has authored over a dozen books including Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, and renowned translations of sacred literature. Her most recent book, Ordinary Mysticism, has been praised by Anne Lamott as “a gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book is for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life”. She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
