Panu will be holding a free online workshop on climate grief together with the pioneering Good Grief Network. Times: 11 AM EST / 8 AM PST / 18.00 EEST (Helsinki)
Warmly welcome!
(From Panu, about youth and their views about the future) Maaliskuusta 2025 lähtien olen ollut mukana Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön asiantuntijaryhmässä, joka pureutuu nuorten tulevaisuususkon horjumisen syihin. Viimeaikaiset tutkimukset ovat osoittaneet, että...
Two new Finnish dissertations feature significant discussion on eco-emotions, and I was glad to be involved in the process of both of them. Johannes Cairns, Ph.D., defended his disseration in Helsinki on Tuesday 26th August, on the theme of Buddhism and environmental...
With Climate Mental Health Network (CMHN), we created a set of resources on ecological and climate grief, which were published 30th April at https://www.climatementalhealth.net/grief-resources People regularly ask me: why focus on grief, when it’s the...
Panu and many members of the collaborative which produced the webpage www.ecoanxietyprocess.com and the videos therein, will be speaking at a webinar Friday 16th May. Hosted by Isaias Hernandez (QueerBrownVegan). Join us for an intimate and powerful...
Nuori toimittaja Eveliina Lempiäinen haastatteli Panua ympäristötunteisiin liittyen ja osallistui Kadonneiden lajien muistopäivään Helsingissä marraskuun lopulla. Lehtijuttu sisältää syvälleluotaavaa omaa pohdintaa sekä yhteiskunnallisten ilmiöiden pohdiskelua....
After a long while, Panu is travelling to the US to give talks and participate in conferences. On Friday 28th February, there’s an event in Charlottesville which is open to the public:...
Panu sometimes travels for conferences and meetings, because IRL encounters between people are so special. In Mid-December, he spent a week in Northern Italy, due to a keynote speaker invitation by University of Parma and their project on Habits and environmental...
The collaborative project which Panu has been leading in 2024, with funding from the Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation, has released two of the three films it has produced. They are available at www.ecoanxietyprocess.com The Dance: Living with Eco-anxiety is a...
In 2024, I have been leading a science implementation project, funded by Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation, on his Process Model of Eco-anxiety. Together with Dr. Elin Kelsey, I applied funding for a project which produces various video resources on eco-emotions...
In 2024, I have written several articles on spirituality, ecology, and eco-emotions. Grief when one’s congregation does not understand one’s ecological grief: “Eco-spiritual grief” Pihkala, P. (2024) ‘Ecological Grief, Religious Coping, and Spiritual Crises:...