UEA launches mindfulness course to ease anxiety about climate change

The University of East Anglia is offering its students a new mindfulness course - to help ease anxiety about the environment.

The course of six sessions, one per week, is being run in partnership with Norfolk and Waveney Mind.

The charity says the programme will be based on "mindfulness and elements of the Active Hope approach".

They describe this approach as one that "does not require us to feel hopeful to take action, or paradoxically, to focus on the outcome. This frees us to try new, creative ways to resolve issues. We can use gratitude, mindfulness and a whole range of resilience practices to resource us to do this."

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