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Nature Awareness: Connecting with Self as nature, Others and the Earth

Transform climate anxiety into mindful, impactful pro-environmental action - Make an Inner Difference
Oct 03, 2026 – Dec 06, 2026, online, Zoom

Make an Inner Difference by joining  our 8-week-online Inner Green Deal Journey.

Human well-being is inseparable from the integrity of Earth’snatural systems. Join this Integrative Insider Live talk to learn more about anexciting new online fall course designed to help participants remember theirinterconnectedness with nature and strengthen their capacity to face today’secological and social challenges. Course instructors from UC Irvine SusanSamueli Integrative Health Institute and UC San Diego Center for Mindfulnesswill offer an experiential journey through the origins, methodology, practicesand research behind the course as well as practical tools for deepeningself-awareness, emotional regulation, collaboration, and one’s sense ofembodied relationality within systems. Come experience the power of innerresilience, community connection, and shared purpose through nature awareness.

This highly interactive 8-week course will support you to:

• Strengthen the inner skills necessary for impactful, sustainable action.

• Understand the current state of our planet and the role you want to play in making a difference.

• See the world through new eyes and feel connected to yourself, others, and the planet.

• Work skillfully with climate anxiety, and worrisome thoughts.

• Collaborate with like-minded people.

• Listen to nature’s wisdom and what she has to teach us.

• Take systemic action together.

• Learn evidence-informed, mindfulness-based practices and other holistic methods that can lead to a shift in consciousness and agency.

Why might I take this course?

Shift to a Greener Mindset.

• The intention of this course is to offer a transformational process for a mindset shift leading to long-term and systemic thinking and acting, fostering a transition towards more green and fair societies.

• This course is open to anyone who is drawn to meeting like-minded people, worries about the state of our planet, and wants to turn feelings of helplessness into agency and action through mindfulness- and compassion-based practices

The curriculum emphasizes the power of small changes to influence larger systems and invites you to deepen your connection with yourself, others, and the natural world. By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped with practical tools and renewed purpose to design a personal or collective initiative that contributes to a more sustainable future.

Learn more about the Inner Green Deal Journey regarding eco-anxiety in this video with Liane Stephan (co-founder and co-director of Inner Green Deal).

Your instructors:

Mirjam Luthe, MA
and
Shannon Jordan, MA

This Mindful Sustainability class is provided at UCI-SSIHI, California, in partnership with UC San Diego Centers for Integrative Health.

DO YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE?

Free event by UC Irvine Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute Integrative Insider LIVE!

Date: Saturday, April18, 2026
Time: Live presentation 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. (PST) / 18-19 Uhr CET

Location: Zoom Webinar

Registration:

Course details:

Oct 03, 2026 – Dec 06, 2026
Saturday 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. (PST) / 18:30 - 20:00 CET
online, Zoom