Creative Care for Eco-Anxiety: a Choral Collage Workshop

This three-hour workshop focuses on tending to eco-anxiety with respect and creativity. Through expressive arts and nature-oriented practices, we will take good care of our eco-anxiety, and explore opportunities to transform this anxiety. With a focus on vocal expression, the workshop will centre on sonic vision-boarding, culminating with a group choral collage, uniting breath with resonance and expressing hope and manifesting a collective dream for our precious planet earth. We will create a recording by using a vocal loop station.

Participants will engage in drawing, movement, meditation, journaling, nature time, deep listening, and exploring singing and harmony to co-create a choral collage. Instead of avoiding the painful emotions associated with the climate crisis, we will hold space for eco anxiety and transform it through creative practice, using the arts to help bridge the gap between what is and what we long for in our relationship with the rest of nature.