Annette Dubreuil
Annette Dubreuil is the founder of PUPA Focusing and a Certifying Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute. She teaches individuals, groups, and future Focusing Teachers through her two-year training certification program. Annette helps people strengthen access to their intuition—especially the subtle knowing that arises in the body as the felt sense.
She developed the PUPA process, crossing Gendlin’s Focusing and Otto Scharmer’s Theory U to support transformative personal and collective change to create a better world. She has a background in environmental science and sustainability, and over 20 years of experience communicating and supporting climate change and sustainability initiatives.
Kristan Childs
Kristan Childs creates and facilitates spaces where people can meet the emotional realities of our changing world with greater resilience, connection, and care. She supports climate professionals—including scientists—through teaching, conferences, workshops, courses, and retreats focused on climate emotions, ecological grief, and inner resilience. Her work blends research-informed practices with reflection, connection, creativity, and time in nature. Kristan believes we need more than information to navigate these times: we need spaces where we can acknowledge what is difficult, remember what we love, and discover that we don’t have to carry it all alone.
Debra Borys, Ph.D.
Debra Borys, PhD is a licensed psychologist in practice for 36 years. She has specialized training and experience in trauma, disaster response, stress management, and eco-psychology. Co-chair of the LA County Psychological Assn. Eco-Psychology Special Interest Group, she is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, serving on its Scientist Professional Support Committee. A trained Climate Café leader, she provides group support meetings online and in-person and conducts group emotional coping and resilience groups with climate frontline workers, scientists, activists and others dealing with distress and moral injury over the climate and poly-crises.
