**7. Conclusions**

In the present era, the world is undergoing fundamental changes. Thus, our usual understandings of the relationship between humans and our surroundings are changing, too. Based on Danish student chaplains' narratives, this article has attempted to extrapolate a model of "Down-to-Earth Pastoral Care", seeking to build up trust in the process of pastoral care. This is in order to support students suffering from stress by bringing the new climate regime to the foreground.

This practical-theoretical conception for pastoral care conversations has put forward a suggestion regarding how developments within climate anthropology, mentalizationbased psychotherapy, and feminist climate/eco-theology may be profitably interwoven. Thereby, through a triune of organizing themes that arose in the course of my chaplain interviews, namely: "Mothering the Content", "Loving Vital Force", and "Befriending the Environment", I have shown how pastoral care conversations transcend differences between everyday language and Christian theological language. They unfold together as a network of deeply interconnected entanglements. This, furthermore, transcends the understanding of each individual theme taken in itself—thus resonating with the image of the Christian Trinitarian God.

The result is a kind of plastic model that seeks to break away from rigidity and monodox thinking within the self, in regard to the world around us, and in relation to God. Ideally, this will give impetus to two movements. Firstly, through its psychological and theological repertoire, the model points towards community, generating resilience against isolation. Secondly, the model puts forward an image of God that, through its feminist framework, insists on an *imago dei* for all—regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, social status, and religion.

Informed by the student chaplains' narratives, this framework model for pastoral care may indicate a practice, actions of taking care, which may contribute to supportive ways of being able to endure the stress of the reality of climate change. This would work by encouraging thinking about belonging to the world and realizing that the world is not just something "out there". In this sense, pastoral care promises a space for students to realize that our planet is full of "agents"—things—which have the power to act according to their own intention, will, force, desire, need, or function—as humans and things are inextricably connected in the body of God.

**Funding:** This research was funded by Centre for Pastoral Education and Research, Church of Denmark. From 1 October 2019, to 30 September 2023.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.

**Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The author declares no conflict of interest.
