More and more often each day we imagine whales, whose bellies are stuffed with plastic bottles, pelicans in oil waste, dried lakes, garbage dumps. Scary, frightening images of a seemingly impending and imminent ecological catastrophe have a greater impact on us than we ourselves are willing to admit. Anxiety arises in us drop by drop, which affects our daily activities and cognitive processes, making us feel constant guilt and fear of the future.

The spread of social networks and wide access of the population to information, including those related to environmental problems, brought us a state of eco-anxiety, a term already officially enshrined in psychology. The concept of "Eco-anxiety" was introduced to describe chronic or severe anxiety associated with the relationship between humans and the environment.

This type of anxiety appeared when people began to talk more about climate issues, waste pollution and overuse, spreading this information.

Studies have already been conducted that prove that the alarming level of anxiety in preschool children about environmental problems is much higher than even twenty to thirty years ago (based on data from clinical psychologist P. Kennedy-Williams).

For the first time in Russia, Inbalansy, together with EcoTechnology, a company providing a wide range of green business services, is initiating a training webinar on the phenomenon of eco-anxiety, analyzing the history of its occurrence and ways of dealing with this state.

The webinar is designed for a wide range of participants, since environmental problems affect all of us to one degree or another, regardless of professional affiliation.

The attitude to ecology is largely caused by the factors that a person cannot objectively control. This leads to a state of helplessness, in which an individual can rush to extremes - become a radical fanatic of saving nature, or, conversely, completely distance himself from problems, "hiding in his shell."

The main goal of the webinar is to help a person see the factors that he can control and give him the tools to normalize his condition. Specific exercises will be considered that help to cope with anxiety, as well as the physical, emotional, behavioral manifestations of this phenomenon.

There are many myths circulating around the state of eco-anxiety, which the speakers of the webinar will try to dispel and help people to objectively assess their own true attitude to the problem.

The webinar will be held in an interactive format and the participants will have the opportunity to ask the lecturers their questions.

The webinar will last about an hour.

By launching such an initiative, Inbalansy, together with EcoTechnology, wants to draw attention to the objectively existing, but, unfortunately, not widely recognized problem of eco-anxiety, which affects all thinking people of the planet Earth, without exception. Caring for the environment is directly related to such aspects of psychology as empathy, the feeling of one's close connection with other people and the awareness of oneself as part of something larger, the desire to change the world for the better and influence the processes taking place in it.