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Climate Grief, Spiritual Resilience, And Hope: Congregation Har Hashem Hosts Annual Symposium On Spirituality And The Environment Amid Times Of Environmental Chaos
Boulder, CO — Congregation Har Hashem will host its annual Symposium on Spirituality & the Environment, a community-wide gathering that invites reflection on the spiritual, emotional, and ethical dimensions of life in a climate-changed world, on Sunday, February 1, 2026 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.
No longer can climate change be understood as a distant or future concern. We are living with its realities now, raising urgent questions about where wisdom may be found for living in this new world, how hope can be understood and sustained, and what practices might nurture the spiritual resilience needed in a time marked by both profound challenge and deep possibility.
This year’s symposium will feature Rev. Dr. Allen Ewing-Merrill, Executive Director of The BTS Center, who will guide participants in exploring the psycho-social-spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis. The program will engage the wide range of emotions that often accompany climate awareness, including climate anxiety, ecological grief, and moral injury, while also opening space for practices that cultivate gratitude, wonder, and hope.
The symposium will include time for reflection, discussion, and Q&A, offering attendees the opportunity to engage deeply with these themes in community. The event is free and open to the public (RSVP required), welcoming people of all backgrounds who are seeking spiritually grounded ways of responding to the climate crisis.
Congregation Har Hashem invites the wider community to attend this year’s Symposium on Spirituality & the Environment, and to join in the shared work of cultivating wisdom, resilience, and hope for our time.
For more information about Har HaShem’s Symposium, and/or to register, please visit harhashem.org/symposium.
Har HaShem gratefully acknowledges that this Symposium is made possible by David & Linda Bachrach through the Bachrach Endowment Fund at Congregation Har HaShem.
