Exploring Eco Anxiety through the Elemental and Creative — Module A

Description

Exploring Eco Anxiety through the Elemental and Creative — Module A is a five-part online journey for people looking for a thoughtful, grounded, and emotionally literate way to meet climate-related distress.

Join from anywhere for five online sessions of reflection, creative practice, and shared learning.

Why This Module, Why Now

Many people are carrying climate worry, grief, overwhelm, anger, or uncertainty without enough spaces to process what these feelings mean. This module offers a gentle alternative to both silence and alarm. Rather than pushing participants to move quickly past what they feel, it creates a held online environment where reflection, creativity, and shared inquiry can open new ways of understanding and responding.

What Participants Will Gain

• A supportive space to name and explore eco-anxiety without judgment.
• A creative and elemental framework for making sense of climate-related distress.
• Guided reflection and shared learning with others navigating similar questions.
• Practical ways to build grounding, connection, and meaning through the five-part journey.
• A calmer, more connected way of relating to what climate reality stirs emotionally.

The Five-Part Journey

Across five online parts, participants are invited into a paced and meaningful process that moves from arrival and naming, through elemental and creative exploration, toward community, integration, and forward movement. Each part is designed to be accessible, reflective, and connected to the larger arc of the module.

Who This Is For

• People feeling climate concern, eco-anxiety, grief, overwhelm, or uncertainty.
• Artists, facilitators, educators, therapists, students, and community members seeking a reflective and creative approach.
• Anyone looking for a community-based online space that balances emotional honesty with grounded practice.

Practical Details

• Format: Online
• Structure: Five-part Module A
• Dates: [Insert dates]
• Time: [Insert time and time zone]
• Duration per session: [Insert duration]
• Fee: [Insert fee]
• Registration deadline: [Insert deadline]

Programme Overview

Exploring Eco Anxiety through the Elemental and Creative — Module A is a five-part online programme that invites participants to engage eco-anxiety through reflection, creativity, elemental themes, and shared learning. Guided by Pauline Borton’s nature-connected and community-centred approach, the programme offers a calm and supportive space to explore climate-related distress in ways that are imaginative, grounded, and relational. Across the five parts, participants are invited to name what they are carrying, deepen their connection with self and the natural world, and discover practices that support wellbeing, meaning-making, and gentle forward movement.

Facilitators

Pauline Borton is an artist and grower whose practice explores how art and growing can become safe spaces for nurturing and collective care. Working across creative practice, visual journalism, research, and archiving, she is guided by a deep respect for the relationship between self, place, and the natural world.

Her work is grounded in imagination, observation, story-making, and the creation of healing spaces that support wellbeing, sustainability, and regeneration. As founder of Creative by Nature, Pauline brings to this programme a calm, embodied, and community-centred approach to creativity, ecological connection, and reflective practice.

Rozanne Myburgh  is a arts therapist, lecturer and clinical supervisor who supports the programme by supervising the online sessions and helping to hold the therapeutic space. Her work brings an emotionally attentive and grounded presence to the group process, supporting participants as they engage sensitive material with care.

Within Exploring Eco Anxiety through the Elemental and Creative — Module A, Rozanne helps create a reflective online environment that is held with sensitivity, attunement, and respect. Her role strengthens the programme’s commitment to therapeutic care, collective meaning-making, and emotionally supported participation.

Rozanne and Pauline represent their connection to nature with metaphors and nature’s systems they feel an affinity with. Rozanne with her head in the clouds, oscillating between a calm and balmy sky, a rainy Sunday afternoon, a terrifying thunderstorm and a ray of sunshine as a storm lifts, revealing hope and resilience. Pauline is represented as grounded, rooted yet networked, finding her inspiration, peace and Mother Nature’s way from the soil, compost,slime,  fungi, mosses, lichen, and the never ending symbiosis and mycelial networks beneath our feet. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to be creative or artistic to join?
No. The module uses creativity as a reflective practice, not as a performance standard. You do not need any special experience to participate.

Is this therapy?
No. This module is a reflective and supportive learning space, but it is not therapy or emergency mental health care.

Can I join from outside your local area?
Yes. The module is offered online, so participants can join from different locations.

What if I feel unsure whether this is for me?
If you are looking for a calm, thoughtful, and community-based way to explore eco-anxiety, this module may be a good fit. You can also provide a short contact option for questions before registration.

If you have been looking for a way to engage eco-anxiety with more care, creativity, and connection, this five-part online module offers a meaningful place to begin. Register now to join Exploring Eco Anxiety through the Elemental and Creative — Module A.