This book calls on all sectors to expand their climate programs beyond emission reductions and physical adaption, to focus on assisting individuals and groups to use the adversities caused by climate change to learn, grow and flourish. Failure to focus on helping people deal with the mental health and psychosocial aspects of climate disruption will seriously impair the safety and health of individuals as well as the security and social wellbeing of organizations, communities and whole societies for generations to come. It will also seriously delay efforts to reduce the impacts of climate disruption to manageable levels. Doppelt begins by describing how natural human psychobiological reactions to climate disruption damage the psychological, emotional, and social wellbeing of individuals, organizations, communities and whole societies. Using his own organization's Transformational Resilience program as an example, the author describes methods and skills that may be used to build capacity within all levels of societies to alleviate the acute traumas and toxic stresses of climate change. Using the author's extensive experience of advising public, private and non-profit sectors on using behavioral and systems change knowledge and tools, this book applies a new lens to the question of how to successfully respond to climate change. Table of Contents: Introduction Climate disruption can be humanity's greatest teacher Part I: How Climate Disruption Will Transform Human Relations Chapter 1: The Psychological Effects of Climate Disruption on Individuals Chapter 2: The Psycho-Social-Spiritual Impacts of Climate Disruption on Organizations, Communities, and Societies Chapter 3: The Imperative of Building Widespread Capacity for Transformational Resilience Part II: Presencing: The First Building Block of Transformational Resilience Chapter 4: Groundand Center Yourself By Stabilizing Your Nervous System Chapter 5: RememberYour Personal Strengths, Resources, and Social Support Network Chapter 6: Observe your reactions to and thoughts about the situation non-judgmentally and with self-compassion Part III: Purposing: The Second Building Block of Transformational Resilience Chapter 7: Watch For New Insight and Meaning In Life As A Result Of Climate-Enhanced Hardships Chapter 8: Tap Into the Core Values You Want To Live By In The Midst Of Adversity Chapter 9: Harvest Hope for New Possibilities by Making Choices That Increase Personal, Social, and Environmental Wellbeing Part IV: Building Transformational Resilience in Organizations and Communities Chapter 10: Building Transformational Resilience in Organizations Chapter 11: Building Transformational Resilience in Communities Chapter 12: Building Transformational Resilience Across Different Cultures Conclusion Chapter 13: No time to lose in building Transformational Resilience About the Author: Bob Doppelt is Executive Director of Resource Innovations and the Climate Leadership Initiative in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and Courtesy Associate Professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon. |