ITRC PNW Transformational Resilience Network

This talk will focus on a different way of approaching climate science communication with tools that including relating, listening, working with conflict, and understanding trauma, all with an eye toward justice and community care.

Learn about what it means to do science to help climate-proof an industry that provides infrastructure to a community and may also play a pivotal role in bringing back the oysters that preceded them.

We need not carry our planetary pain and sorrow in isolation; instead, we can mobilize our grief for collective-building, for activism, and for personal and planetary healing.

On September 18th, Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Puerto Rico, bringing massive rainfall, killing more than 30 people, and leaving 1.18 million people without power. Ten days later, Hurricane Ian hit Florida, killing over 100 people and displacing thousands whose homes were destroyed. The Mosquito Fire, which began in California on September 8th, is still active. So far, it has burned 80 thousand acres of land, evacuating 11,000 people and burning and damaging nearly 100 buildings. In...

As of today 113 national, regional, state, and local organizations have endorsed the bi-partisan Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (CMWRA) introduced in Congress by Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)---and the list continues to grow! Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and co-sponsor Rep. Cathy Castor (D-FL) are now seeking additional co-sponsors in the House. Rep. David Trone (D-MD), Katie Porter (D-CA), and Suzanne Bonamici...

Bob Doppelt, the coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) will discuss why community-based initiatives that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience are important approaches to combat widespread harmful mental health and psychosocial problems generated by the climate emergency when he appears on the Resiliency Within podcast at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 24. In September 2023 alone,...

The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC)* and over 100 other national, regional, state, and local mental health, human services, education, faith, and other organizations today strongly endorsed the bi-partisan “Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act” (CMWRA) introduced by US Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA). The legislation has garnered support from Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL), who is an original cosponsor, as well as national...

Bob Doppelt, the coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) will discuss why community-based initiatives that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience are important approaches to combat widespread harmful mental health and psychosocial problems generated by the climate emergency when he appears on the Resiliency Within podcast at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 24. In September 2023 alone,...

President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act in the State Dining Room of the White House on August 16. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Author: To read the Capital and Main article, please click here. Hailed by President Biden as “the most aggressive action ever to combat the climate crisis,” the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) commits $369 billion to clean energy and greenhouse gas reduction. But the IRA’s progress towards its ambitious goals and the larger fight to stave off the...

Caroline Hickman will discuss developing a climate & bio-diversity crisis lens through which therapy can respond to these emerging concerns as well as how dreams and the imaginal are increasingly revealing what is under the surface of people’s climate distress.

Dr. Suchana Chavanich, professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, in the Department of Marine Science, will speak about why we have to conserve marine ecosystems, and what are the current threats.

When we don’t have support and space to grieve significant losses, the grief stays stuck inside us and takes a toll on our mental and physical health.