Webinar recordings

Past trainings & events of Climate Mental Health Aotearoa:
Ask a Climate Scientist!
Nava Fedaeff gave us an engaging update on NIWA’s latest climate change projections—what’s changing, what it means for Aotearoa, and how this science is already shaping real-world decisions. 
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(apologies from Silvia - the zoom video recording obscures part of Nava's slides. Recommend listening to audio on Youtube and viewing the slides separately. Also apologies that Silvia's 'self view' is hidden so her voice is disembodied!)
A free event of Climate Mental Health Aotearoa, with thanks to Earth Sciences NZ.
Perhaps the most confronting aspect of Nava's presentations was the predictions for changing patterns of rainfall around Aotearoa, with significant droughts predicted for the east and north, and even more rainfall in the south and west. Combine this with seasonal differences, leads to much of the country being dry for most of the year, then massive rain downpours over the summer - which is a perfect storm for flood damage. 
Dr Ravinda Prajapati speaking from Suva, from the University of the South Pacific: 
'Mental health in the Pacific, and the impacts of climate change'
Webinar held on 6 June 2025


​Follow-up conversation between Fiji and NZ: Silvia talks with Dr Ravi, Joseph Snodgrass and others from the Fiji Counselling Association, together with Alex in Christchurch. 
Two webinars from NZAEE: the Assn of Environmental Educators, in partnership with Future Unity in Porirua.
Fear for the Future:
Climate Anxiety talk by Professor Niki Harre
Event held in Maclaurin Chapel, University of Auckland, 12 March 2025
​Powerpoint slides
Professor Niki Harré is Head of School, Psychology at the University of Auckland. She is Director of Ngā Ara Whetū, the Centre for Climate, Biodiversity & Society.

Co-hosted with NZ Christians in Science.
Hope without hiding: sustaining optimism and courage in the climate crisis
An interview between Professor James Renwick and Silvia Purdie, St Peters on Willis, Wellington, 29 April 2025
Check out the full interview text HERE

​Sadly we only managed to catch a small snippet of the interview on video - here is a tiny taster: 
Climate distress for Christian counsellors
1-hour lecture by Rev. Silvia Purdie