Falling in Love with the World Again:

Finding Our Way When Everything Feels Broken

Practice with Anya Kamenetz

February 26 – March 26, 2026

Live Session Dates | Feb 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26

Thursdays, 7:30 – 8:45 PM ET

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Meet the onslaught of the world's crises with courage, calm, and even joy.

It is easy to feel helpless, angry, and overwhelmed with the enormous amount of news that provokes fear and uncertainty. The many emotions we feel about climate disasters, authoritarianism, violence, and the relentless news cycle can be deeply uncomfortable. But when we let them in, they also can be energizing, connecting, and even reorient us to our own strength and purpose.
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Join us for a five-week program with Anya Kamenetz, an award-winning author, former NPR reporter, and expert on climate change and mental health, to examine our collective emotional responses to the crises of our time and learn to find inspiration even in the depths of despair.

In conversation and in practice, Anya will take us on a journey that explores our emotions with curiosity – building resilience and working with the energy within our bodies. Together, we will:

  • Map our collective pain for the world: identifying the spiral and the wheel
  • Discover the healing alchemy: transforming your grief, rage, apathy, fear and despair
  • Call In your resources and refuges: exploring body and breath, relationship and community, nature and the sacred, ancestral mentors and deep time 
  • Practice each week: grounding ourselves in guided meditation, creative exercises in movement, art and writing, and group work 
  • Study the wisdom: tuning into prophets, rabbis, lamas, mystics, Indigenous sages, neuroscientists, ecologists, and activists.
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Testimonials

“I wanted to say a deep, profound thank you…for the talk you gave at New York Insight on The Wheel of Climate Emotions….

I almost backed out of attending the talk — it all felt so overwhelming to even try to hold. But I am so very glad that I was able to come and gain an entirely different perspective on experiencing and appreciating the variety of feelings I move through regarding climate change. 

I have been putting so much of what you shared into reflection, practice, and meditation, and I just cannot say how incredibly grateful I am to you [and Jay] for helping to open up my eyes.”

“I supported your work because I need guidance on how to do The Work. I do not want to be lost in despair or overcome by fury. Instead I want to turn grief and anger into action so that we all have a joyful future to look towards. Looking forward to continuing to read and DO. Thanks, Anya <3”

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IJS is pleased to offer this course at three tuition levels.
We encourage you to pay at the highest level you can, which will enable more students to participate.

Abundance Level

$299

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Basic Level

$199

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Reduced Level

$99

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Meet Your Instructor:

Anya Kamenetz

Anya Kamenetz speaks, writes, and thinks about thriving and caring for others on a rapidly changing planet. Her newsletter on these topics is The Golden Hour. For NPR, she co-created and co hosted the podcast Life Kit: Parenting. Her last book was The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now. Kamenetz currently advises the Climate Mental Health Network, working on new initiatives at the intersection of well-being and climate change. There, she created the Climate Emotions Wheel, which is being used all over the world to help people understand their climate feelings. She worked with the eco-spiritual teacher Joanna Macy producing her last project, the podcast We Are The Great Turning. Her next book, forthcoming from Bloomsbury, is about how to cope with the world right now: the emotional landscape of polycrisis.