Feds struggle to fill seats for employee ‘ecogrief’ training -
But the agency has been struggling to fill all the seats in its upcoming round of training this week, with 10 of the 35 slots still unclaimed as of Tuesday.
Rep. Ryan Zinke, who served as Interior Department secretary in the Trump administration, said if someone had brought the idea of ecogrief training to him, he would have thought it was a joke.Mr. Zinke now sits on the subcommittee that oversees the department’s funding, and he said it’s a cinch that Republicans will strip out funding for this sort of activity — and then go looking for other boondoggles.
“Hear inspiring stories from DOI colleagues, learn the many paths to being an ally, discover best practices for supporting employees in the workplace, and celebrate the significance of this day with our colleagues, leaders and keynote speakers,” the department told employees.Employees also questioned the contents of mandatory diversity training.
Ecogrief is part of a family of new terms to describe distress. It’s also been labeled “climate grief” or “ecoanxiety.” But the APA speculated that the worries strike younger people more than older people, and also hit indigenous people harder because they are more likely to be upended by a changing climate.The FWS training is being provided by Tom Kalous, a psychologist who specialized in workshops on emotional intelligence; Michelle Doerr, a wildlife biologist who has offered previous courses to FWS on “self-care” and “cooperative language”; and Jimmy Fox, an FWS employee.The ecogrief training is voluntary.
“The ever-changing challenges impacting our conservation work, our neighbors and the communities we live, work and recreate in including droughts, wildland fires, declines or loss of species, declining habitat and impacts to public outdoor recreation add up,” she said.
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