Featured Course
Calm in the Chaos
Calm in the Chaos is a 6-week therapeutic journey for people who feel emotionally overwhelmed by the state of the world and want a more grounded, compassionate way through.
In a time of relentless uncertainty, many of us are carrying more than our nervous systems can comfortably hold. The result can be anxiety, emotional flooding, doom-scrolling, numbness, helplessness, exhaustion, and a deep sense of inner instability.
This course is designed to help you understand those responses with compassion — and gently build the tools, awareness, and inner steadiness needed to navigate them.
Across six weeks, you’ll learn therapeutic, nervous-system-informed practices to help you feel calmer, more emotionally regulated, and more able to stay connected to yourself in difficult times.
This is not about becoming less caring.
It’s about becoming more supported in your caring.
That line is very strong, by the way.
This course is for you if ...
This course is for you if…
- the state of the world leaves you feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or emotionally flooded
- you care deeply, but struggle to stay grounded in the face of constant uncertainty
- you’re tired of feeling caught between over-functioning, doom-scrolling, and emotional shutdown
- you want therapeutic tools to help you feel calmer, steadier, and more emotionally resourced
Calm in the Chaos is designed to help you meet difficult times with more inner steadiness, self-trust, and care.
Meet your course writers and tutors
Trish Perrett
Trish Perrett is a registered clinical counsellor, educator, and course creator with a lifelong passion for helping people live with greater resilience, meaning, and connection.
Before training as a counsellor, Trish spent more than 30 years developing community education programs for organisations including RSPCA Queensland, Australian Red Cross, Headspace, and The Smith Family. Her work has always centred on supporting people, strengthening communities, and creating practical pathways for positive change.
Today, Trish integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with other evidence-based approaches to support people navigating overwhelm, anxiety, grief, life transitions, and climate distress. Her work is warm, grounded, compassionate, and deeply values-based.
Based in the lush Gold Coast hinterland of Queensland, Trish brings together psychology, education, and a deep love of the natural world in all that she does.
George Perrett
George is a counsellor, engineer, and lifelong advocate for a fairer and more sustainable world.
For more than 30 years, he worked across four countries delivering renewable energy and water projects that improved the lives of communities and supported environmental sustainability. Throughout this work, George became known for his calm leadership, integrity, and ability to bring people together across differing perspectives.
Wanting to better support the emotional challenges many people now face in a rapidly changing world, George later retrained in counselling. His work is especially informed by his deep understanding of climate realities, organisational change, and the pressures experienced by people trying to create positive change in difficult systems.
George brings warmth, wisdom, practical insight, and a steady grounded presence to his counselling work. He is passionate about supporting people to move from overwhelm and hopelessness toward resilience, clarity, and meaningful action.
Why study with Green Door Academy?
About Green Door Academy
Green Door Academy provides online courses to help you thrive in a rapidly changing world. Our goal is to make emotional and practical skills for a better world accessible to everyone, regardless of location. Our academy was born from a shared belief that learning should be flexible, affordable, engaging, directly relevant to the real-world and - most importantly - it should help to make the world a better place for all.
Walking the talk
The Green Door Office is situated within our net zero home. Net zero means that the home and office do not contribute carbon emissions - a major cause of climate change. This is achieved by: solar panels that cover electricity needs, heat pump for water heating, rainwater tanks, a fully electric vehicle, onsite sewage and grey water management, recycling, food and fruit growing for the home, and active regeneration of the site through extensive habitat planting.
