Planetary Hope: Find Your Voice & Power - by Emily Toner

COURSE

Planetary Hope: Find Your Voice & Power

With Emily Toner

This course has been designed to help provide a space for you to process the myriad of emotions that arise in response to the environmental challenges currently facing our global community. Combining research from neuroscience, the science of wellbeing and the psychology of emotion and behaviour, each day leads into a specific guided mindfulness practice designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to tend to your own wellbeing, while also creating space for you to act for the earth in small, committed, everyday ways. Join Emily in the practice of acceptance, self-compassion, and discovering the power of interconnectedness in providing a way forward.

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Meet your Teacher

Emily Toner
Byron Bay NSW, Australia

Emily Toner is a Clinical Psychologist with a research background in Behavioural Neuroscience and Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne. She recently attended Al Gore’s three day climate leadership training in Brisbane, gaining insight into how current world activity is impacting our environment. Emily is also the founder of Wye in the Sky Records, an independent, for-purpose music label that promotes local environmental causes through music. Emily works as a Wellbeing Consultant for schools and corporates, and gives regular talks on the science of wellbeing and mindfulness.

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10 Days

4.3k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

Stress

English

Lesson 1

Getting Perspective

How are we feeling as a collective? Todays session will provide an introduction into the human behavioural aspect of the environmental crisis. We will stop together and connect to a mindfulness practice designed to help center and ground you into your day.

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Lesson 2

The Neuroscience Of Emotion

Why have we evolved to have emotions? What are our emotions trying to tell us in this moment in history? In today's session we will explore the neuroscience and psychology of emotions. In our meditation we will practice radical acceptance of body sensations, the precursor to acceptance of emotions.

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Lesson 3

Emotional Agility

Which emotions spur us into action and which stop us in our tracks? In today's session we will delve deeper into emotions, exploring the purpose and function of specific emotions and how they impact our motivation and energy. In our practice we will acknowledge how we are feeling about the environmental crisis, and you will be guided through a mindfulness practice designed to help you to validate, accept and allow your felt experience, helping it move through you more efficiently.

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Lesson 4

Knowing Grief

What is denial and how do you move past it? How does eco-anxiety and environmental depression relate to grief? Today's session will allow space for you to process your grief safely, freeing up internal space to gradually move yourself into acceptance.

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Lesson 5

The Neuroscience Of Positive Emotion

How important is positive emotion? It feels good, but does it have a greater purpose? Today we will explore the neurosceince of positive emotion and we will explore the hidden power that lies within happy and joyful communities. Our mindfulness practice today is designed to broaden your internal perspective, encouraging you to see things differently.

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Lesson 6

Connecting To Our Inner Nature

Is it possible to be happy and content now? However we find ourselves, in this very moment? In today's session we will move straight into a practice designed to help you to acknolwedge the freedom that lies in letting go of striving for external happiness, and instead explore the personal benefits of reconnecting and nurturing our inner nature.

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Lesson 7

Preparing Fertile Soil

Which thoughts lead to powerlessness and inaction? How might changing the way you think impact your motivation and sense of agency? Today we will explore the role that thoughts and beliefs play in moving us into action on the things that matter, or in keeping us small. Our practice today is a practice in oneness, designed to help you to dissolve any mental illusions that we are separate from nature.

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Lesson 8

Growing Roots

What is more motivating? Self-compassion or self-criticism? Can we create a collective shift with self-compassion? In today's session we will get to know our inner critic, and begin to learn why self-compassion is so crucial in creating a thriving inner and outer world. Our practice will connect us into our heart, alllowing space to try out some self-compassion for yourself.

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Lesson 9

Allowing Self-Belief To Flower

What is the definition of resiliency? How do we shake feelings of ‘not enoughness’ to use our voices and lead our communities? In today's session we will acknowlege the final road blocks to becoming more bold and confident in using our voices and speaking up about the things that matter. Today's meditation is a motivational practice in backing yourself.

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Lesson 10

We Are All In This Together

What would your perfect earth look like? In our final session, you will receive a summary of the key ideas sown throughout this course and we will end with an envisioning of our perfect future; coming together to ideate, think big, and co-create a better world for ourselves and future generations.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 88 community questions and 26 audio replies from Emily Toner. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Vikki

May 13, 2024

Oh my…. This is just exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you so much for caring too and for sharing your beautiful wisdom 💗

Annie

November 2, 2023

Excellent course! A worthwhile venture into making sure we take positive steps forward for the future, not just for ourselves but also for our fellow humans.

Jeff

June 2, 2023

Thank you! This class showed me how to switch my Environmental despair and hopelessness into hope and action. There is a path forward and connection is the key.

Christine

May 21, 2023

Thank you for all you do…you inspire me and I am now ready to make a difference in the world…joining with others in our awareness…blessings to you on your journey beautiful light…

Sebastian

May 8, 2023

Thanks for giving confidence 🌳♥️🌍

Chloe

April 26, 2023

Thank you Emily for sharing such important insights! Xx

Nicole

March 23, 2023

Excellent! But I am still not particularly sanguine about the future.

Vanessa

January 23, 2023

This is a fantastic course for anyone experiencing concern or grief for our current planetary crises. Well produced, well paced, and with an absolutely lovely guide through the many layers involved in eco-awareness. Highly recommended!

Jacqueline

April 8, 2022

Timely and wonderful course. 🙏🌎🌏🌍🌈

Shari

February 18, 2022

The lessons learned and insights gp well beyond nature. Amazing. I want to repeat this again and again.

Susan

January 20, 2022

So, so good. Empowering. Loved every part of it. Thank you so much.

CC

October 4, 2021

A quiet, gentle space to release anxiety and find our power, to create lasting change for our Mother Earth.

Catarina

June 8, 2021

Wonderful course that gave shape to some of my thoughts regarding environmental issues and action! I think certain parts of it would go quite nicely with a breathing technique I recently learned about - tonglen. 😊 Thank you so much for making this beautiful course. I will be recommending it to friends.

Dan

May 3, 2021

Excellent centering series to reduce climate despair and find joy and generate out again.

Alicja

April 26, 2021

Beautiful and so much needed. Thank you for empowering me.

Crystal

April 6, 2021

Thank you so much for this course. It is beautifully constructed: the pacing, the music, the progression from day to day. I feel inspired to move forward into climate action, one little step at a time.

Sarah

March 25, 2021

Beautiful ten days of realizing that I can make a difference by inspiring others.

Denise

January 16, 2021

This was a great series. Thanks 🙏🏼

Dena

November 26, 2020

This was exactly what I needed to hear.

Lucinda

November 9, 2020

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