For the Youtube video conversation go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2i0PkG5rjjaOSrRzUotRQ In this episode Carol discusses normalizing the angst about climate change as an ingredient for less loneliness and greater effectiveness, with Steffi Bednarek, climate and trauma psychologist practicing in Brighton, England.
In this episode Carol discusses normalizing the angst about climate change as an ingredient for less loneliness and greater effectiveness, with Steffi Bednarek, climate and trauma psychologist practicing in Brighton, England. Steffi Bednarek was born in Germany, and now lives and practices in Brighton, England. She works as a clinician privately and also in conjunction with the Climate Psychology Alliance. She is part of a movement that includes climate cafes, one that encourages the normalcy of extreme existential angst about climate change, change that has already begun and is threatening to have increasing horrific effects. The experience of not being shunned or judged, helps a person to metabolize and share anxieties in such a way as to become more resilient in actual activism. And this can help a person feel less odd and less lonely. A paper that is quite profound and provocative is Climate Change, Fragmentation and Collective Trauma: Bridging the Divided Stories we Live by. (https://futuref.org/climate_change_fragmentation_and_collective_trauma_en)