Planetary health therapist, Merritt Juliano, talks with Zhiwa Woodbury JD PhD, panpsychologist, spiritual counselor, and author of Climate Trauma: Reconciliation & Recovery on the many layers of trauma (individual, collective, soul and biospheric), that are calling to be healed in order for humanity to survive the planetary health crisis, and live in right relationship.

Planetary health therapist, Merritt Juliano, speaks to Clan Mother Shoran Waupatukuay Piper of the Golden Hill Paugussett Native American tribe in Connecticut about living in the Anthropocene.

In this spring episode, climate-aware therapist, Merritt Juliano, engages in a deep conversation with Michelle Shofet and Larissa Belcic, cofounders of Nocturnal Medicine, a nonprofit design studio using old and new traditions to heal our connection with nature and encourage spiritual healing. Informed by their formal training as landscape architects, their design practice is dedicated to building cultural resources for transformative change in an era of unprecedented environmental crisis.

Their work has been celebrated in The New York Times & Bloomberg’s CityLab as bringing a cutting-edge, soul-centered approach to addressing climate crisis and its psycho-emotional impacts. They have designed & produced immersive social experiences across diverse platforms, including in nightlife (Nowadays NYC), academic spaces (MIT, Harvard, Yale), & community centers.

Both Belcic & Shofet lecture on sustainability, design, & ecological consciousness at RISD & The New School, respectively, & have presented their work at a range of institutions including The New Museum, the international Earth Day Live Conference, & universities across the country. They are current members of NEW INC’s Creative Science track.

And what that work looks like day to day, it's just a whole bunch of emails and conference calls, like any other work, and then from time to time, you're like chaining yourself to the door of the governor's office, or you're like at a lobby day with a senator whoever it is. And ironically, though, I was taking action every day, there wasn't a lot of time to like, unravel this knot of thought and feeling that was just sort of sitting there in my chest. So being able to take time to think things through and to gently unravel that knot has made me feel far more prepared than I was before to live the remainder of my life in the 21st century.