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Feds hire ‘ecogrief’ trainers to help employees cope with ‘loss in the natural world’
Washington Times ^ | February 15, 2023 | By Stephen Dinan

Posted on 02/16/2023 5:55:42 AM PST by Red Badger

The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service is offering “ecogrief” training to employees who are struggling with a sense of trauma or loss as they witness a changing environment.

The class will give staffers a chance to define what they mean by ecological grief, space to examine their emotional reactions and tools to grapple with those feelings, the agency said in a note to employees in the Southwest region, where the training is offered.

Those who sign up will be led to “find ways to act while caring for themselves.”

“This 4-hour workshop seeks to normalize the wide range of emotional responses that conservationists experience while empowering participants to act while taking care of themselves,” the notice said. “The workshop is intended for those experiencing ecological grief and for those who wish to support them.”

The workshop is being offered twice to employees in the Southwest, which covers Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. Up to 35 people can attend a workshop.

The Washington Times sent multiple inquiries to Fish and Wildlife for this article.

The agency responded to the initial inquiry by asking for more details on the notice, but it did not provide answers to The Times’ questions, including queries about cost or whether regions besides the Southwest were offering similar training.

Congressional Republicans panned the course as a boondoggle.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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1 posted on 02/16/2023 5:55:42 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Good Grief!


2 posted on 02/16/2023 5:57:42 AM PST by AU72
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To: Red Badger
"Climate anxiety". These people are embarrassing.


3 posted on 02/16/2023 6:00:26 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

Where’s my “freedom grief” counselor?


4 posted on 02/16/2023 6:00:35 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: Red Badger

Oh brother! More ways to waste our money.


5 posted on 02/16/2023 6:01:30 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: AU72

This deserves an ecobarf award


6 posted on 02/16/2023 6:01:31 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

How about you just do your job?
I really don’t care how you “feel” about it.


7 posted on 02/16/2023 6:01:37 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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8 posted on 02/16/2023 6:01:51 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Red Badger

Theses are the kind of jobs that they brag about adding, completely worthless government jobs.


9 posted on 02/16/2023 6:02:00 AM PST by DejaJude (I'll be back.)
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To: Tell It Right

They are doing what Democrats do best: wasting money on useless garbage...............


10 posted on 02/16/2023 6:02:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The good news is there's a new sheriff in town that says “This is taxpayer waste, plain and simple, and our House Republican majority will be holding this administration accountable”.

The bad news is this is the sheriff...


11 posted on 02/16/2023 6:04:24 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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Idiots mourning the loss of trees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4


12 posted on 02/16/2023 6:04:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The onion, the bee, or are they being plagerized?


13 posted on 02/16/2023 6:05:46 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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All this garbage is just an excuse to not work.

I’ve had to do more mandatory training in the last year than my past 14 years with this company. It’s all online. Some of it is OK, other parts are not relevant to me and my job, other parts are just stupid.

The best part is that we are required to do the training during normal work hours. I’m on the road a lot and don’t always have normal work hours, but I will stay home for an entire day to take their stupid 30 minute irrelevant training course. I have to do one today. No idea what it’s about.


14 posted on 02/16/2023 6:05:52 AM PST by cyclotic
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To: SaxxonWoods
Where’s my “freedom grief” counselor?

Amen!!!
15 posted on 02/16/2023 6:06:10 AM PST by rockvillem
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To: Red Badger

“Ecogrief trainers” are morons with college diplomas that just can’t find a job.


16 posted on 02/16/2023 6:06:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: eyeamok

The Onion & the Bee
Can’t compete
With Reality........................


17 posted on 02/16/2023 6:07:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

How about suck it up and get back to work.


18 posted on 02/16/2023 6:09:36 AM PST by AU72
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To: Red Badger

This is the most woketard thing I have read today.


19 posted on 02/16/2023 6:10:12 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bk1000

.... and it won’t be the last!..................


20 posted on 02/16/2023 6:11:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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