Date: Thursday, May 7, from 12 noon--1 pm Pacific Time (3-4 pm Eastern Time)
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Many factors determine the ability of individuals and groups to successfully cope with and use the traumas and toxic stresses generated by the climate emergency and other crisis like the Coronavirus pandemic as transformational catalysts to learn, grow, and increase personal, collective, and ecological wellbeing. Some of the most important are the knowledge people have about how trauma and toxic stress can affect their mind and body, and the thinking and behaviors of groups, their personal and collective resilience skills, the strength of their social support networks, and the capacity to clarify their purpose and fine meaning, direction and hope in the midst of adversity. This webinar will describe the principles and methods of building these capacities using the Resilient GrowthTM model developed by ITRC Coordinator Bob Doppelt and described in his book Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience for Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing (Greenleaf Publishing 2016).
In specific, this one-hour webinar will describe:
- The urgency of ensuring that all adults and youths (not just human services professionals) become "trauma informed," meaning they have a basic understanding of how traumatic stresses can affect them and others and can spot the symptoms in their own body and in group behavior.
- The importance of, methods, and many benefits of building the capacity for "Presencing" (or self-regulation) to regulate and calm the nervous system when distressed.
- The importance of, methods, and many benefits of building capacity for "Purposing" (or adversity-based growth) to use climate adversities to find new sources of meaning, direction, and hope in the midst of adversity in ways that increase wellbeing.
- The basic principles involved with applying these skills at the personal, group, and community levels.
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