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Sarah Jaquette Ray

Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray is chair and professor of Environmental Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata, California, on Wiyot land. She works at the intersection of emotions and climate justice. Her first book, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture, explores the role of the emotion of disgust in pitting U.S. environmentalism against movements for social justice. Her second book, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, explores the role of emotions (joy, despair, guilt, etc) in climate justice activism and is "an existential toolkit for the climate generation." She is a 2022 graduate of the UCLA Mindfulness Teacher training, and offers a mindfulness course to transform climate anxiety through Pacific Mindfulness. In 2024, Dr. Ray published an edited volume with Jennifer Atkinson, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. More information on her website.

Module Eight

Skills Development: Group Dynamics & Facilitation

We invite here the essential cultivation of communal trust, transparency, and courage needed to lead in times of uncertainty through relational integrity and attunement. We practice becoming trustworthy stewards of shared transformation.
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EcoDharma

How the Dharma Taught Me to Teach

What Exactly Are We Doing Here Together?

What do trust and belonging have to do with a midterm test? In this piece, a Dharma teacher gets creative in the lecture hall.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Rewiring the Mind for Planetary Well-being

Many of us experience learned helplessness in the face of climate and other crises. Sarah Jaquette Ray leads a warm inquiry into the causes of this mind state and the possibilities for a different response.
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EcoDharma

Lessons from a Hermit Thrush

It can be tempting to cast humanity as an unambiguous villain in the unfolding story of Earth. But how might a more nuanced understanding support our engaged practice?
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EcoDharma

Doing Nothing for the Planet

Why Turn Inward Just as the Planet Needs Us Most?

How might our fixation on urgency and impact actually undermine our ecological response? Sarah Jaquette Ray explores the subversive power of slowing down and acting from abundance.
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