Leveraging Individual Power to Create Systemic Change - This conversation will offer insights from a variety of environmental activists and change agents working to address the root cause of climate change and human behavior.
Keynote Speakers: Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, Dr. Mirele B. Goldsmith, Janna Diamond
Janna will be a panelist guest speaker on this FREE 3-hour online event will elucidate a recent issue that connects our health with the health of the planet, and offers practical and integrative solutions for both.
Eco Anxiety: What It Is + How To Work With It, Thurs (3/7) @ 1-4pm EST
In these difficult times, it can feel like grief is permeating every aspect of life. Join Janna Diamond and McKenzie Wren to explore and express personal and collective grief through embodied art practices. With opportunities for movement, sound, reflection and art making, we will connect with where grief lives in our bodies, explore different ways to be in relationship to grief, and cultivate creativity for healing and collective transformation.
Reimagine is producing a special "Gathering of Grief," our landmark 100th virtual candlelight vigil, co-hosted with a number of other leading organizations dedicated to helping people process loss and grief. If you've not been to a Reimagine vigil, this is the one. This virtual event, symbolizing our unified commitment to healthy healing and love, redefines 'giving' by offering a shared space for you and your community to mourn and process amidst mounting global trauma.
Janna is a co-sponsor of this event.
This is a session at the Gaian Gathering Online Summit, November 1st - 5th, 2023. Register at www.GaianGathering.org.
We cannot express what we cannot feel. We cannot feel what doesn’t move. Designed as preparation for the Truth Mandala, this is an opportunity to greet your internal ecology and center in the truth of your felt-sense experience. We’ll come together for gentle movement, grounding, and tuning toward what’s most alive within you and the collective, ecological body.
Join us for an evening of experiential learning and dialogue to explore our emotions, aliveness, belonging, and resilience in a climate-changing world. This event is designed for people age 16 and up. Light refreshments will be provided, but not food. You are invited and encouraged to bring your own nourishment! Pre-registration required. Co-sponsored by Ma’alot and Adamah ATL.
Join us for a virtual panel discussion on how the transformative power of Core Energetics manifests in the world. This event, organized by Core Connect, The Alumni Network of the Institute of Core Energetics, aims to support recent graduates and alumni in embracing and sharing their work while showcasing the diverse avenues through which Core Energetics can be applied.
This is open to rising Core 3 & Core 4 students as well as Institute Alumni.
In person at the Georgia Climate Conference 2023 in Athens, GA.
What do we do with all the information and data we are taking in about climate disruption? How do we process a reality that is incongruent with life?
This is a space to connect with others to begin to metabolize and integrate our shared reality. It is an opportunity to come together to deepen our capacity for resilience and creativity in these difficult times. It is also a chance to explore what inner adaptation looks and feels like.
Based on deep ecology and systems theory, this experiential workshop is rooted in the teachings of Joanna Macy, and over four decades of community work with thousands of people around the world. It is designed to help you prevent burnout and continue your important work in the world with renewed energy and purpose.
Janna will be a leading a private event for Repair the World Atlanta.
UCSB Environmental Studies Department presents a series on eco-anxiety:
Climate Change and the Power of Embodied Expression with Janna Diamond
A virtual event with zoom with Janna Diamond. Janna (she/her) is a UCSB Alumni and somatic practitioner in private practice specializing in climate change emotions. She supports individuals and groups to build inner resources for collective evolution. Join this interactive meeting to learn how we can call on the wisdom of our body to transform climate fear and overwhelm.
Join Aravinda Ananda and Janna Diamond for this bystander intervention training to help grow your knowledge, skills, and capacity to speak up and address microaggressions as they happen.
Join Karin Knoblich and Janna Diamond this fall as we awaken our energy and liberate our bodies through slow, organic movement and breath. We’ll meet to resource ourselves in the company of supportive colleagues, each time focused on a specific body segment which we’ll invite to integrate into the whole.
Holding our clients and ourselves in such challenging times, we need spaces to co-regulate our nervous systems and allow connection and pleasure to nourish us. This restorative practice is designed for this, and to soothe the places in us needing comfort and relief.
Together, let’s tap into the collective energy and body of wisdom each one of us brings, and feel held in the grounding embrace of our community.
Some items to bring or have nearby: A yoga mat and blanket, a bolster or firm pillow, massage balls, roller or foam roller.
Dates: Mondays, September 19, October 3, 17, 31, November 14, 28, December 12
Where: Virtually on Zoom
Time: 10-11am EDT
Registration information coming soon.
Join Janna Diamond and Karin Knoblich for a Jumpstart session at the International Core Energetics Convention in Cancun.
A circle is contained, balanced, stable, a refuge in these wild and spinning days. By connecting ourselves and each other, we can tap into the very things that will help us to stay resourced, grounded, and steady as we meet the moment. Join us in circle, across time zones and valleys, mountains, and deserts. Learn more and register here.
Janna Diamond, eco-somatic practitioner with a focus on climate change, will guide us in pathways to transform anticipatory anxiety and stress into opportunities for creative practice and presence. Hosted by Reimagine.
$5-20 sliding scale, 20% of all proceeds from the workshop will be redistributed to climate justice funds.
Jewish Earth Alliance is a grassroots network of communities working together to enable Jews to engage in the policy process at the Federal level as citizens.
Have you ever witnessed microaggressions while facilitating and not known what to do, or wished you had done something different?
Join Aravinda Ananda and Janna Diamond for this 6 hour workshop, exploring approaches to addressing microaggressions. This is geared specifically to Work That Reconnects facilitators or people in the Work That Reconnects community who would like to explore and practice different approaches to being an active bystander. We will work with examples that have happened in Work That Reconnects workshops as a way to build capacity and skill for the next time microaggressions happen.
Janna will be speaking on a panel to be held virtually.
GIPL is partnering with Georgia Public Broadcasting and Compassionate Atlanta to hold a two part series about climate change and what we can do. Part one will be held on January 11 as a showing of the film Planet Prescription and talking about air pollution and public health. Part two will be on January 18th from 7-8:30pm on Ecological Grief and how we can move from a grief and despair to a place of hope.
Further details coming soon.
Must be registered for the program to attend.
The Shmita year offers us a unique opportunity to practice skills of slowing down to navigate a changing world. One of the most potent moments of the year for reflection is the winter solstice, the turning from the deepest dark to the return of light.
CBH has invited Janna Diamond to bring us a rich offering for this moment of awakening and reckoning with our relationship to the Earth.
Together, we’ll explore dynamic and experiential ways to meet ourselves during challenging times. We will open to new pathways of moving and being in our lives, with one another, and on this precarious planet we call home. This is an opportunity to tune into the places within us that are influenced by the greater ecosystem and in relationship with all life.
Janna will be leading a breakout room process and integration session as part of this event.
After COP26, let’s take stock: what happened in Glasgow, where does that leave us, and where do we go from here? Hazon CEO Jakir Manela will be in dialogue with Elders, Ruth Messinger and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, regarding these essential questions and challenges at a crucial crossroads for our movement.
Then we’ll have time for breakout rooms – with plenty of topics – options to choose from, lead by a cadre of amazing Jewish environmental leaders – to give everyone a chance to process & discuss in more intimate, smaller groups.
Janna will join the Our Climate Resilience Advisory team to provide a safe space where young climate activists (ages 14-24) can confidently share their climate anxiety and/or trauma and learn about healthy ways to be with it.
Janna is leading a session at the New York State Association of Conservation Commissions Conference on the Environment 2021.
If you've heard of climate anxiety and climate grief you know that climate change doesn't only have ecological impacts. Explore why it's vital that we pay attention to our personal responses to a rapidly shifting world.
An intimate, trauma-informed, embodied and experiential 6 week group space to process and evolve the world as we see and feel it, together.
For information and registration, see the Fire Times page linked here or through the top banner.
Have you ever witnessed microaggressions while facilitating and not known what to do, or wished you had done something different?
Join Aravinda Ananda and Janna Diamond for this 6 hour workshop, split into two days, exploring approaches to addressing microaggressions. This is geared specifically to Work That Reconnects facilitators or people in the Work That Reconnects community who would like to explore and practice different approaches to being an active bystander. We will work with examples that have happened in Work That Reconnects workshops as a way to build capacity and skill for the next time microaggressions happen.
A virtual workshop designed to support Core Energetics practitioners on the path towards incorporating climate consciousness into the therapeutic space and within the evolutionary process. We will explore ways in which climate change may be showing up in session and in the energetic field and how you can expand the container to hold both yourself and your clients in an ever-changing world.
This offering is part of a post-graduate research project at the Institute of Core Energetics.
Register by email at janna@jannadiamond.com. A $25+ donation to the Core Energetics Scholarship Fund is strongly encouraged, link provided upon registration.
An online workshop for Yale students with facilitators Chelsea MacMillan and Janna Diamond exploring self-care and community care during COVID, racist violence, and the climate crisis. What does it mean to be alive in a time of turmoil and rapid change? How do we transform our despair into hope and our rage into effective work?
Janna will be assisting Aidan Fisher in this weekend workshop on Energy & Consciousness.
The journey taken in Core Energetics is principally one of consciousness and exploring the powerful relationship between energy & consciousness. During this weekend workshop participants will be offered a combination of dynamic experiences and learning opportunities to help in understanding how blocked energy affects our blocked consciousness, on an emotional, physical, mental, evolutionary and spiritual level.
A 6-week group class series in partnership with The Hive Cincinnati led by Janna Diamond and Rev Chelsea MacMillan. Click on the event for further details.
Join us for a Tu BiShvat themed Havdalah with Rabbi Mira Rivera, featuring a somatic meditation with climate grief specialist Janna Diamond.
