[Commpsych] FW: Free Event at the Sofitel - Psychologists and Climate Change

[Heather Gridley]

Great to see National Psychology Week highlighting some Inconvenient Truths - worth getting along and supporting this initiative

Heather

From: APS Member Groups - Simon Kinsella [mailto:apsgroups at psychology.org.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:41 PM
To: Heather Gridley
Subject: Free Event at the Sofitel



To celebrate National Psychology Week, the APS Melbourne Branch Committee would like to invite you to join your fellow psychologists in exploring how our profession can be involved in the issue of climate change. This event will take the form of a panel discussion. This is a free event, but you will need to register at the following link for catering purposes: http://www.psychology.org.au/Events/EventView.aspx?ID=7073



Date: 18 November 2010

Venue: Sofitel Melbourne

           Fitzroy Ballroom
           25 Collins St, Melbourne

Time: 6:30PM - 9:00PM



                                                    Presenters



Simon O'Kelly
Simon is a Melbourne businessman who has spent the last 5.5 years as the General Manager at Peregrine Adventures and earlier this month has followed his heart and moved to The Solar Shop, a business that retails solar panels for home and business electricity generation. In 2009, Simon was trained by Al Gore as a Climate Presenter and will be delivering the latest version of "An Inconvenient Truth".

Dr Susie Burke
Susie is a psychologist at the APS looking at ways of using psychological knowledge to enhance community wellbeing and promote social justice. A significant part of her work in the Psychology in the Public Interest team is highlighting the role that psychology can play in helping us understand the causes, impacts and solutions to climate change. She will talk about the psychological barriers to people taking effective action on climate change, and ways of engaging and motivating people to behave in environmentally sustainable ways.



Carol Ride
Carol is a psychologist and couple therapist. In the last few years she has become involved in the community climate movement, and is a founding member of the Transition Decade alliance. She will speak about the emotional obstacles to engagement with climate change and present some ideas on ways psychologists can help shift community understanding, honesty, reflection and active concern.



Schedule for the evening:

6:30-7pm drinks and canapés

7pm-7:25pm Simon O’Kelly - An Inconvenient Truth

7:25pm-7:50pm Dr Susie Burke - Psychological barriers to changing behaviour (Denial is just one)

7:50pm-8:15 Carol Ride - Denial & local initiatives

8:15pm-8:45 Question time

8.45 Tea, coffee and sweet canapés



We look forward to seeing you there!



APS Melbourne Branch Committee

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