Join us on December 1 at 3:30 p.m. for this Sustainable Energy Seminar presentation by Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at UW-Madison.

Abstract

What do we and our societal systems need to transform given how we are at the edge of a planetary precipice with a cascade of environmental and climate crises ahead of us? Dekila Chungyalpa, the founding director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has spent 25+ years working on global conservation and climate strategies, and specifically with with faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions for the last 15 years, collaborating on solutions that answer this question. Dekila will share some of the lessons she learned doing this work and how her realizations led her to combine inner, community, and ecological resilience as one broad vision on Deep Resilience for the Loka Initiative. She will share Loka’s Deep Resilience framework and how their research on inner resilience building practices that address ecological emotions such as eco-anxiety and climate distress demonstrates the importance of emotional regulation, Nature-connectedness, and community building.

Registration

This event is offered online only through Zoom Webinar. Registration is required through Zoom. Click here to register for this and all other webinars as part of the Sustainable Energy Seminar series in Fall 2025.