Sustainable Happiness, Hope & Resiliency

Original date: January 24, 2012

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Presenters: Catherine O’Brien and Elin Kelsey

Description: Join Catherine O’Brien and Elin Kelsey for an inspiring conversation about sustainable happiness, hope and resiliency. In the Summer 2011 issue of Green Teacher, Catherine and Elin introduced the concepts of sustainable happiness, hope and resiliency and why it’s so important to move beyond “gloom and doom.” In this webinar, they invite you to join them in a lively conversation about how these ideas are catching hold and causing ripples of optimism across the disciplines of environmental and sustainability education, health and well-being and conservation biology, and around the world. After short presentations, they will share some of the ways they are seeing this work moving out in the world so that participants can start to think of implications for their personal and professional life.

Suitability:  All formal and non-formal youth educators

Catherine O’Brien, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Education at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Elin Kelsey, PhD, lives in Pacific Grove, California where she works as a consultant with Stanford University, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and other institutions committed to sustainability and public engagement. Her newest children’s book, Not Your Typical Book About the Environment (Owl Kids 2010), aims to allay children’s fears about environmental doom by showing them what a remarkable time they live in. Learn more at www.elinkelseyandcompany.com.