{"id":43188,"date":"2025-08-03T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43188\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:32:22","slug":"how-eco-improv-can-help-manage-climate-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43188\/","title":{"rendered":"How ‘eco improv’ can help manage climate anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published on Aug. 2, 2025, 4:41 PM<\/p>\n

While it won’t fix the climate crisis, it can create community and spaces to empower people<\/p>\n

“I really appreciate you all being here,” said Ana\u00efs Pronovost-Morgan, as she welcomed participants to eco improv on Granville Island in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

“It takes a lot of courage to try something new, and I hope we’re going to have some fun and we’re going to learn things together today.”<\/p>\n

Last week’s event was one of hundreds as part of Pacific Northwest Climate Week, and started with 13 people introducing themselves in a circle. Some hadn’t done improv in years, but they were all excited to try it with a climate lens.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Dealing with climate anxiety? Here\u2019s some ways to help<\/a><\/p>\n

“Eco improv, as it says in the name, is a blending of improv theatre with environmental concepts, experiences and what I like to call ‘eco emotions<\/a>,'” she told CBC News after the workshop.<\/p>\n

Pronovost-Morgan, who’s been an improv actor for eight years, says she started eco improv to help herself work through her own feelings about climate change<\/a>. Though each session is different by nature, it often involves coming up with climate-related prompts for acted-out scenes, or prompts to dig into specific emotions.<\/p>\n

As climate disasters have increased in frequency and severity in recent years, people may be feeling more climate-related anxiety. But as Pronovost-Morgan points out, there’s more to it than just worry and despair. She’s seen a range of emotions in her workshops \u2014 even hope and wonder \u2014 and believes eco improv is a way to work through all of those feelings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Aug. 2, 2025, 4:41 PM While it won’t fix the climate crisis, it can create community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,2848,6093,295,84,66],"class_list":["post-43188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}