Climate change presents a grim future. We know what we’re up against, yet our impulse is to look away, to say we’ll worry about it later. In this podcast, Renée offers strategies for getting past the tendency to tune out by understanding and accepting our complex emotional responses.
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How climate change affects your mental health
Having an emotional response to ecological crises is actually not pathological, it’s actually a healthy response.
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Breaking through our climate inertia
Climate scientists are clear that we need to go much further, much faster. Social scientists say we won’t get there without building a broad social mandate fuelled by thoughtful, well-funded public engagement strategies that are tailored to both communities and regions.
Why Emotionally intelligent climate work matters. Priorities for Climate folks for 2021
When it comes to healing from environmental violence and injustice, emotional intelligence can help us find compassion, common ground, acceptance, and the ability to offer reparations, from which forgiveness and partnership can be achieved.
The Year That Was and the One Ahead/ Covering Climate Now
For the last four years, the world’s largest economy and single-biggest all-time emitter of heat-trapping gases has been in the grips of an aggressive climate denier.
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Interview with Dr Renée Lertzman, Psychologist and Founder of Project InsideOut
Renée works with companies, nonprofits and governments looking to strengthen environmental initiatives, develop more effective campaigns and harness the creativity and innovation needed to solve our urgent crises.
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The climate crisis
We’re living through a year of almost unimaginable stress and anxiety, against a backdrop of ongoing climate chaos. Are humans really equipped to deal with conditions like this?
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Applying psychology for a sustainable world
Dr Renée Lertzman shares how to practically apply psychology to climate and sustainability campaigns.
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Why frightening facts don’t always move people to action on climate change
A conversational approach often works better, says psychologist Renée Lertzman.
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Climate Anxiety: How to turn worry into compassionate action
We are talking climate anxiety, trauma, and validating our feelings with Dr. Renée Lertzman, a renowned psychologist, author and sustainability strategist who uses psychological insights to change our approach to the environmental crisis.
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