In Conversation With Leslie Davenport
Episode description
Leslie Davenport brings the role of psychology into interdisciplinary dialogues that advance creative and effective solutions to climate change. Leslie is a founding member of the Institute for Health & Healing, one of the first and largest hospital-based integrative medicine programs in the United States. Her 25 years of medical experience developing an empowering and collaborative approach to resolving crises has informed her climate psychology model. She is the author of three books: Healing and Transformation through Self-Guided Imagery, Transformative Imagery: Cultivating the Imagination for Healing, Change, and Growth (Ed.), and Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change. Her upcoming book, to be released in August 2021 with Magination Press, will provide kids with resiliency tools for navigating a warming world. Currently, she serves in a Climate Psychology advisory role to Project InsideOut and the CO2 Foundation. She has participated in interdisciplinary climate think tanks hosted by the Post Carbon Institute and Institute for Policy Studies. Leslie is a licensed psychotherapist practising in California and Washington and is also the creator of the Deep Imagination program at John F Kennedy University, and Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Original Podcast release date: 5. June 2020 on SoundCloud.
The wonderful music on this podcast intro and exit has graciously been lent out to me by the composer Troels Hammer and the track is called INFINITA. For more about Troels's music go here: www.troelshammer.dk. You can also find Troels's music on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/artist/6BG79szH5…WbTv-dfsigMgCRo