Resources for Personal and Psycho-Social-Spiritual Disaster Resilience

Hearing the Language of Trees (yesmagazine.org)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 11/7/2110:29 AM

The author of "Braiding Sweetgrass" on how human people are only one manifestation of intelligence in the living world. The intelligence of plants has long been a theme of literature, philosophy, and Indigenous narrative. Scientific research into the chemical interactions between plant species and other living things supports the idea. In The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence , writers and scientists add their personal perspectives in a rich collection of essays and poems,...

A People’s Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis (zinnedproject.org)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 1/1/2112:11 PM

A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution — as well as on people who are working to make things better. At a time when it’s becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at...

Building a Culture of Transformational Resilience (powerpoints).

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 6/24/182:51 PM

Please find four power points for your consideration and use on the introduction to transformational resilience, building a culture of transformational resilience within communities, groups & organizations, and an introduction to the resilient growth model. Please click on these links below. These resources are also available in the resources library. Introduction to Transformational Resilience Building a Culture of Transformational Resilience in Communities Building a Culture of...

Resources on Some Mental Health Organization Responses to Climate Change

Bob Doppelt · 5/18/1811:54 AM

After a recent ITRC Steering committee meeting, member Dr. David Pollack sent the following resources ITRC members might be interested in: Climate Psychiatry Alliance (CPA) website, recently launched and which will hopefully be updated regularly with lots of useful information about climate and mental health issues, including the slide presentations we have been putting on at various meetings, brief summaries of key issues, etc. www.climatepsychiatry. org Medical Society Consortium on...

Post Traumatic Growth after Natural Disasters - Communication and Connections Help [sciencedaily.com]

Leslie Lieberman · 1/15/188:36 AM

A recent study from researchers at the University of Missouri found more communication among family, friends and neighbors who experienced the devastating and deadly 2011 Joplin Tornado was related to more post-traumatic growth. The 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, was one of the most destructive in U.S. history -- killing 161 people, injuring 1,150 and destroying approximately one-third of the city's homes. Individuals who experience such disasters can exhibit a range of mental health...

5 things people are doing to help the victims of the California fires.(upworthy.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 10/17/1711:29 AM

On Sunday night, flames swept into Santa Rosa and other cities across the region with little warning . At least 24 people have been confirmed dead , with hundreds displaced and nearly 300 still reported missing . Meanwhile, hundreds of residents from hotel owners to teachers and students to local government officials to relief workers are marshalling help those to affected. Here's what they've been up to in the days since the devastation began. 1. Farms are taking in displaced animals, and...

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