With the Congress, we intend to take a look at the theme of Ecopsychology and the Climate Crisis, with a view to looking at how to Restore Relations with the Planet.

We see the climate crisis as a severe, urgent and potentially deadly challenge for almost every species of life that inhabits this planet. The longer it goes on without the necessary changes being made, the greater the risk and the more urgent the responses humanity needs to make.
Despite enormous pressure from the scientific community and well-informed public opinion, political leaders and economic leaders are moving with reckless slowness, increasing the risk that the climate crisis will turn into a climate collapse with tragic consequences. We need discernment and courage to make a responsible commitment to future generations and to the systems that sustain life on the planet.

With this meeting we want to move towards an understanding that unites psychology and ecology about what is happening to us human beings who are generating and living through this crisis. Ecopsychology can help us understand the psychological roots that interrelate environmental degradation and the degradation of mental health. But it can also help us understand the psychological, social and economic challenges that the climate crisis imposes on us and how to overcome them.

This, among other things, has been the central theme of the ecopsychological community's work. We want the sharing of knowledge, methodologies and practices to lead us to take action that restores the bond of reciprocity with the Earth.