George Bermudez, PhD, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, Visiting Scholar, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (2020-21).  Pioneering scholarship and practice on social psychoanalysis, the social unconscious, and social dreaming.  Author: “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma” (Int’l Jnl of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psa Inq, 2019).  Areas of scholarship:  American Xenophobia, Whiteness and Psychoanalysis, Black Reparations, The LGBTQ Unconscious in the Trumpian Era, and The Global Unconscious in the Time of Pandemic.  Focus of current work: applying social dreaming to elicit potential solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy.”

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Caroline Hickman, MS, co-lead author, global study of children & young people’s emotions & thoughts about climate change, The Lancet Planetary Health.  Psychotherapist using a depth psychology (Jungian), eco-psychology and analytic relational approach (2000-present).  Lecturer, University of Bath, researching children and young people’s emotional responses to climate change globally, eco-anxiety and distress, eco-empathy, trauma, moral injury, and the impact of climate anxiety on relationships. Speaker and workshop leader: climate psychology, emotional resilience, and mental health internationally. Developed a psychological assessment model for eco-anxiety, emotional resilience, and reframing mental health in an archetypal and cultural lens; as well as a therapeutic approach that utilizes stories, imagery, imaginal techniques,  relationship with nature, and art.

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Paul Hoggett, BA, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and training therapist, Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy.   Emeritus Professor, Social Policy, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK; formerly Director there of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies.  A founding editor (2000) of the journal, Organisational and Social Dynamics, a forum for those working within the Tavistock Group Relations tradition. Co- founded (2012) Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) and was its first chair.  Edited a collection of CPA research papers, (2019) “Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster.” Previous books have included (2009) “Politics, Identity and Emotion” and (1992) “Partisans in an Uncertain World.” He co-authored the book, (2022) “Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death”.  His most recent book is (2023) “Paradise Lost? The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition.”

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Paula Christian Kliger, PhD, ABPP, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and President/Founder of Psychological Assets and Kliger Consulting Group.  Received the Public Leadership Credential (PLC), Harvard Kennedy School. North American Region Representative to the IPA Committee on Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism. Chair, APsA’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education Section, The Psychoanalyst in the Community.  Founding member, Black Psychoanalysts Speak. Principal Consultant, Harlem Family Institute and President/Chair of the Harlem Family Services.  Teaches: “Self-Study” and “Power Your Mind” model internationally, Advanced Ethics at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and Cultural Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Wayne State School of Medicine.  Award-winning poet and illustrator; co-producer, podcast: “We Are Human First,” which received the 2020 Hermes International Creative Gold Award.

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Sherri Mitchell, Esq, –Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset, Indigenous attorney, activist, and author from the Penobscot Nation.  Author of the award-winning, “Sacred Instructions; Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change” and a contributor to eleven anthologies.  Founding Director, Land Peace Foundation; Trustee, American Indian Institute; Advisory Council, Nia Tero’s Indigenous Land Guardianship Program; board member, Post Carbon Institute.  Served on the development team, U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.  Recipient of several human rights awards and her portrait is featured in the esteemed “Americans Who Tell the Truth Portrait Series.”  Convener, Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island, a gathering that focuses on healing relationships with one another and with the natural world. International speaker on issues of Indigenous rights, Earth rights, and transformational socio-spiritual change.

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Cosimo Schinaia, MD, psychiatrist, training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society in private practice in Genoa.  Formerly Director of Mental Health Centre of Central Genoa.  He has published many scientific papers for both Italian and international journals and books.  His book, “Psychoanalysis and Ecology: The Unconscious and the Environment,” has been translated into seven languages and was published by Routledge in 2022.  His latest book, “Against Catastrophism: Building Our Future in a Changing World,” will be published in English by Routledge and in Italian by Jaca Book at the end of 2024.  He leads seminars internationally on the topic of the relationship between the environment and the individual and collective unconscious.

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Sally Weintrobe, BScHons, Chartered Clinical Psychologist; Fellow, British Psychoanalytic Society. Chair, International Psychoanalytic Association’s (IPA) Climate Committee; member, Climate Psychology Alliance. Formerly: senior staff, Tavistock Clinic London; Hon Senior Lecturer, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London; Chair, Scientific Committee, British Psychoanalytic Society. Published areas of interest: entitlement attitudes, issues of grievance and complaint, prejudice, our relationship to nature, and psychoanalytic reflections on the climate crisis. Global Commissioner, (2021) Cambridge Sustainability Report. Editor and contributor, “Engaging with Climate Change,” short-listed for the International Gradiva Prize; author, (2021) “Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare.”