MMI Campfire Chat: Combatting Climate Anxiety

The MMI Campfire chats are back! Join the MMI Team and our fantastic guests for an informal delve into themes and topics that matter to the veterinary community. Open to all, these free online panel sessions offer a chance to pause, reflect and learn from each other’s experiences of navigating life and work.

Combatting Climate Anxiety

In this MMI Campfire Chat....

People worldwide experience climate anxiety – a fear and sense of helplessness around climate change. We’re constantly told about the physical dangers posed by climate change, but only recently has attention started to turn to the impact the climate crisis is having on people’s mental health. In our Combatting Climate Anxiety Campfire Chat, we’ll be discussing the ways in which we can harness hope, implement action, and use our connection to nature to create a more positive collective mindset.

Panel Guests

David Black

David is Managing Director of Paragon Veterinary Group, a fiercely independent mixed rural practice in Cumbria. He is a Director of Vet Sustain, established to inspire and enable vet professionals to address sustainability, and of VetSalus, an initiative developing livestock vet collaboration and consultancy globally. Clinical interests are in dairy practice, particularly reproduction and advanced breeding technologies including IVF. He is an Emeritus RCVS Recognised Specialist in Cattle Health and Production, Treasurer of the World Association for Buiatrics, and a member of the Dairy Science Forum. He is passionate about vet-led business, global veterinary collaboration, One Health and Veterinary Sustainability.

Alex Mullarky RVN

Alex Mullarky is a Registered Veterinary Nurse who began work in 2017 in Australia and joined the UK register in 2020. As a volunteer she has helped raise joeys and trained to rescue injured birds of prey and marine mammals. She founded The Sustainable Vet Nurse community several years ago, which today has nearly 7,000 members. Alex has written for numerous environmental websites and became a National Geographic Explorer in 2017 for her expedition with wild horses in the Rhodope Mountains. Her first novel for children will be published in 2022.

Sue Stuart-Smith

Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of The Well Gardened Mind, a Sunday Times Bestseller, listed as one of the 37 best books of 2020 by The Times and gardening book of the year by The Sunday Times and translated into fifteen languages.

She studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor and working in the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and is a consultant at DocHealth, a not for profit, psychotherapeutic consultation service for doctors. Her book, The Well Gardened Mind, analyses the relationship between gardening and mental health.

Programme timings and information

7:00 - 8:00pm

The interactive session will be held online, via Zoom.

This event counts towards your CPD.

Cost

There is no charge to attend this event.

Register here

Contact us

Should you have any questions, please email the RCVS Events Team