FILMS
Immerse yourself in The Dance: Living with Eco-anxiety as a means to open yourself to the possibility of constructively transforming your own journey. Please freely share this short animated film through your social networks
Explore the inner workings of the model through Isaias Hernandez (QueerBrownVegan) in-depth interview – Teaching Climate Together – with Panu
Consider more meaningful ways of coping with the emotions of climate injustice by watching How are you, really? – a documentary by Stranded Astronaut.
The Dance: Living with Eco-anxiety
So many people struggle with eco-anxiety and environmental grief we felt compelled to translate the essence of the transformation that exists within The Process Model into a short animated film that could be freely shared online. We want it to reach the 42% of people on Earth who are 25 years of age and younger, and who get most of their climate justice content via social media.
Dr. Elin Kelsey led the creation of the concept and script, together with Mary Beth Leatherdale. We collaborated with Spotted Fawn Productions, an indigenous-led animation studio because we are in awe of their capacity to translate emotional complexity and depth through their award-winning films.
The soundtrack for the film is a powerful creation by PIQSIQ (pronounced “pilk-silk”), sisters Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik.
Teaching Climate Together
Teaching Climate Together is a web series by Environmentalist & Storyteller, Isaias Hernandez (QueerBrownVegan). In this episode, Isaias meets Panu in Helsinki and they discuss the emotional dimensions of climate change. Panu shares key ideas from his research and its applications, including the Climate Emotions Wheel published by the Climate Mental Health Network. They focus on the Process Model of Eco-anxiety. Isaias and Panu both share from their personal journeys and the various emotions that working with climate change evokes, ranging from worry to deep meaningfulness.
How are you, really?
After directing the short documentary “Gen Z Mental Health: Climate Stories,” filmmakers Tehya Jennett and Maxfield Biggs of Stranded Astronaut Productions saw firsthand how impactful it can be to see our climate emotions reflected on the big screen. Across the globe, young people are experiencing anxiety, grief, anger, and sometimes even hope in reaction to the climate crisis.
In connection with the project led by Pihkala and Kelsey, this documentary sees Dr. Panu Pihkala’s Process Model of Eco-anxiety and Grief as a guide for understanding the growing methods of coping and hoping through individual and community emotional regulation tools. From climate cafes to places for creative expression, this film discovers a pathway to radical honesty in asking the question, “how are you, really?”
Coming 2025