Inside Out: The Grief, Trauma and Anxiety of Climate Change (and what you can do) with Dr. Renee Lertzman

In episode 121 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Dr. Renee Lertzman. Dr. Lertzman is an environmental psychologist and founder of Project InsideOut, a forthcoming resource hub and emerging community of practice that unites activists with clinical psychologists. Doug and Renee discuss what is climate grief and anxiety; steps individuals and organizations can do to address these issues and turn to action; the value of emotional intelligence and how adaptation and mitigation have more in common that you think.
Topics covered:
What is climate grief and anxiety.
Step by step process of working with organizations and individuals on the psychological implications of climate change.
Learning from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) and how it’s relevant to climate impacts.
Dealing with climate anxiety in the workplace.
Does climate anxiety differ for those working in the adaptation and mitigation spaces?
How to avoid feeling judgmental of others in the climate space.
We need to prioritize emotional intelligence in the climate movement.
Are people working in adaptation more optimistic than those working in carbon mitigation?
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