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Bob Doppelt will deliver a seminar titled “Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide for Building Resilience and Hope in Communities”, hosted by Dr Emma Lawrance for the Climate Cares programme.

The presentation will discuss the urgent need, methods, and multiple benefits of using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience for the climate emergency. During the presentation Bob will also describe how the “Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023” that has been introduced in Congress would fund and support these community initiatives.

Join to learn:

  • How the relentless toxic stresses and disasters generated by the climate crisis are producing widespread individual, community, and societal traumas that are undermining mental and physical health, safety, and wellbeing, and also blocking solutions to the climate emergency.
  • The results of an extensive 2+ year international research project by the International Transformation Resilience Coalition (ITRC) that determined that, to prevent and heal climate traumas, a public health approach was needed in communities to build population (or universal) mental wellness and resilience.
  • The core principles, processes, and foundational elements involved with using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience.

 

About the speaker:

Bob DoppeltBob Doppelt founded and coordinates the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), a network of mental health, social service, disaster management, climate, and faith organizations and professionals. He is trained in both counseling psychology (M.S.) and environmental science (M.S.) and has combined the two fields throughout his career. He is also a Graduate of the International Program on the Management of Sustainability, in Ziest, The Netherlands, and a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Instructor. In addition, he has been a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.

Early in his career Bob worked as a counselor with troubled youth and their families. Decades later he directed the Climate Leadership Initiative at the University of Oregon, a climate change research and technical assistance program that was one of the first in the U.S. to assist private and public entities nationwide to develop climate mitigation and adaptation plans. For many years he also taught systems thinking and other courses at the UO. Through this work Bob realized that the mental health and psycho-social-spiritual impacts of the climate crisis were a significant but largely unaddressed problem. This led him in 2013 to organize the ITRC. Due to his many years of work, in 2015 Bob was named one the world’s “50 Most Talented Social Innovators” by the World CRS Congress.

Bob is the author of a number of books on the interface between individual, group, community, and social change and ecological regeneration. His newest book is ‘Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide for Building Resilience and Hope in Communities.’

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