A New Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy | Invitation to Dec 2 Webinar

Bob Doppelt 11/18/201:40 PM

You are invited to a free 1 hr. webinar on Wednesday, December 2 from 12 noon to 1:00 pm PST (3:00-4:00 pm EST) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy

To register for the webinar go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/

Why the Need for a New Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy?

Climate science indicates that global temperatures will, in the not too distant future, rise above the 2.7-degree F. temperature threshold that unleashes civilization-changing impacts. From more extreme wildfires and hurricanes to record droughts and heat waves, some of the impacts are already evident. The public in the U.S.--and in every other nation--is unprepared for the coming tsunami of mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems that will result. If we remain so, climate-generated psychological, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral problems will threaten the health, safety, and wellbeing of every child and adult nationally and worldwide. They will also accelerate physical health problems. And, they will activate a vicious cycle whereby self-protective emotional reactions block efforts to slash emissions, which worsens the climate emergency, and circles back to turn increase mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems.

The New ITRC Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy

Developed through extensive research and supported by a team of 20 experts, the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) has developed a new Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy to prevent and heal climate-generated psychological, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral problems. The policy calls for community-based, multisystemic, population-level initiatives to be launched nationwide and globally to build individual and collective resilience to push back against externally-generated climate traumas and toxic stress pileups.

In specific, the ITRC policy calls for establishing local broad-based Resilience Coordinating Councils (RCCs) that: a) offer all adults and youth the opportunity to learn simple age and culturally appropriate mental wellness and resilience information and skills; b) enhance personal, family, and community strengths; d) build and connect social support networks across economic and geographic boundares; and e) engage local volunteer, non-profit, private, and public organizations in the adoption of principles, practices, and policies that build a local cultural of psychological and emotional resilience.

What you will learn during the webinar:

Why disaster mental health, individually-focused clinical therapy, and direct service programs are incapable of addressing the scale and scope of the mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems generated by the climate emergency.

Why launching community-based, multisystemic, population-level mental wellness and resilience initiatives is essential to prevent and heal the individual and collective traumas generated by the climate emergency -- and by many other social, economic, and ecological adversities as well, including the Coivid-19 pandemic.

The core elements of community-based, multisystemic, population-wide mental wellness and resilience initiatives, how to organize them, and the many benefits they provide for individuals, children, families, non-profits, businesses, and the public sector nationwide.

U.S. federal, state, and local policies needed to foster and sustain community-based population-wide mental wellness and resilience initiatives nationwide.

To register for the webinar go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/

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Frank Sterle Jr.Member

Whether it’s unprecedented wildfires in California/Cascadia, off-the-chart poor-air advisories, the mass deforestation and incineration of the Amazonian rainforest (home to a third of all known terrestrial plant, animal and insect species), record-breaking flooding in Europe, single-use plastics clogging life-bearing waters, unprecedented stalling hurricanes, a B.C. (2019) midsummer’s snowfall, the gradually dying endangered whale species or geologically invasive/destructive fracking or a myriad of other categories of large-scale toxic pollutant emissions and dumps—there’s discouragingly insufficient political gonad planet-wide to sufficiently address it.

To me, our existence has for too long been analogous to a cafeteria lineup consisting of diversely societally represented people, all adamantly arguing over which identifiable traditionally marginalized person should be at the front and, conversely, at the back of the line; and, furthermore, to whom amongst them should go the last piece of quality pie and how much should they have to pay for it—all the while the interstellar spaceship on which they’re all permanently confined, owned and operated by (besides the most wealthy) the fossil fuel industry, is burning and toxifying at locations not normally investigated.

What is universal is that they’re all simply too exhausted and preoccupied with just barely feeding and housing their families on a substandard, if not below the poverty line, income to criticize the former for the great damage it’s doing to our planet’s natural environment and therefore our health, particularly when that damage may not be immediately observable.

11/19/202:09 PM

Alison CebullaMember

"We occasionally record them and post it on our website. But sometimes the quality is so bad we don't do it." - Bob Doppelt

11/18/204:13 PM

Alison CebullaMember

@Maija McLean posted:
Wonderful! Will there be a replay of this webinar available if i register?

Hi Maija--I just emailed Bob and it's not a Zoom call. He does phone conference calls with slides that he emails. So it doesn't look like there's a recording.

11/18/203:21 PM