Wednesday, September 14, 2022
3:30 - 5:00 PM Eastern / 12:30-2:00 PM Pacific
The climate emergency will disrupt every aspect of society. No single profession, organization, or approach can prevent or heal the resulting pandemic of mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems. We must think and respond through a population lens, not an individual one. This requires a public health approach to mental health. Accordingly, local residents, groups, and organizations must come together in communities to plan, implement, and continually improve actions that help all adults and youth enhance their capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for relentless adversities.
This webinar will focus on how to organize and operate these community-based initiatives with a focus on the five interrelated foundational areas ITRC research has found must be addressed to build universal capacity to prevent and heal climate-generated widespread traumas:
• Build robust social connections across boundaries in communities.
• Ensure a just transition by creating supportive local built/physical, economic, and ecological conditions.
• Establish universal literacy about mental wellness and resilience.
• Engage residents in specific practices that sustain mental wellness and resilience.
• Organize ongoing opportunities for residents to heal their traumas, with mental health treatment being an important but minor focus.
This event is free.
Bob Doppelt (M.S. in Counseling Psychology, M.S. in Environmental Science), founded and coordinates the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) a network of mental health, social service, climate, faith, and other organizations and professionals working to prevent and heal the mental health and psycho-social-spiritual impacts of the climate emergency.