Psychologists for Future Germany (english)
@Psy4Future_Eng
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We're psychologists and psychotherapists (#Psy4F) supporting @FridayForFuture - because denial has never been so dangerous. https://t.co/kmcAzBZPse
Joined March 2022
Join our online symposium on October 14th 23: „From therapy to crisis leadership“ We are inviting all psychologists and psychotherapists (to be). We will focus on tools, skills and best practices we need to gain focus and impact. Sign up here:
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📯📯📯Paper Alert 🚨 Honoured to be a part of @rki_de’s status report on #climatechange and #health. Our #mentalhealth is at risk, due to heat, extreme weather events, and an awareness for the existential threat we’re facing. 🧶1/3 https://t.co/fmYoe1zMyz
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„What people needed from the media was above all an honest portrayal of the facts, said Lea Dohm, a psychologist and co-founder of the German climate action group @Psychologists4F.“ https://t.co/u9HlY6py4E
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Image description: Young girl showing a newspaper to an adult. Adult says accusingly: "How about if your generation spends less time studying how my generation destroyed the environment, and m o r e time figuring out a magical solution?"
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There are two ways to cope with shame: repression or helping to build a safer future for the younger generation.
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***Stop scrolling*** We know things look bad. But that does not mean that we are not still here. We are loud. And we are capable. #ClimateAction
if you aren’t careful you’ll let social media and the news make you believe life ain’t beautiful and that people arent doin miraculous things every day to help, heal, transform, and shift society.
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If you feel uncomfortable - good. Disruption is part of the process. If we allow ourselves to stop and listen, #transformation can grow from it.
“... utopian visions of how to build a different future often follow moments of great social upheaval. Ordinary people find themselves unmoored from the realities they want to believe to be fixed and immutable—”the order of things” is disturbed... (1/2)
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„How we manage this global crisis, and how humanely we treat each other as we migrate, will be key to whether this century of upheaval proceeds smoothly or with violent conflict and unnecessary deaths.(…) Migration is our way out of this crisis.“ #CEAS
https://t.co/gm8fM75FGV
theguardian.com
The long read: People driven from their homes by climate disaster need protection. And ageing nations need them
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„I often hear people ask, “Why should I deprive myself of X pleasure or Y entitlement, when it won’t really make any difference?” Such a narrow focus on individual impact reveals how much the myth of individualism constricts us.“
zocalopublicsquare.org
Connection and Interdependence Can’t Capture Carbon But Can Get to the Root of the Problem.
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💬 Dr Patrick Hart, 37, a GP from Bristol, who took part in the action, said: “I am doing this because it’s my duty as a doctor. The climate crisis is the greatest health crisis humanity has ever faced. People are dying now and more will die every day unless we stop new oil, gas
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Big Oil is successfully manipulating the way we think about climate change. Instead of focusing on stopping the burning of fossil fuels, public attention revolves around individual carbon footprints or carbon sequestration. The red herring fallacy at work https://t.co/Sbu9tMetPB
salon.com
A logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change — to the oil industry's benefit
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Are we reaching a critical social tipping point? “perhaps more so than any other generation currently practising law, this generation highly values social justice and altruism”.
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@julia_asbrand at #dpk2023: therapist are mostly reflected, still we also have unconscious biases (re race, gender, SES background...). Specific person groups are more affected by crises but are not reached by therapy offers.
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Have you been fooled by the fossil fuel industry? Here are their 12 tricks... Paper written by @lamb_wf @giulio_mattioli @seb_levi @TimmonsRoberts @StuartBCapstick @efesce @PriestleyCentre @MCC_Berlin @trevordculhane @JKSteinberger Music: 'Excuses' by @morningbenders
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Can you spot the @GlobalPsyFuture logo 👀? The global network we are part of is represented at the Planetary Health Hub along with other health professionals in London this weekend. Exciting! #TheBigOne @XRPsychologists @ClimatePsychol @ClimateNa
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Image description: A group of psychologists from Extinction Rebellion at „The Big One“ in London. They are holding a big banner saying: „we need to talk about the climate crisis“ and a flag showing the earth with a red line that looks like a cardiac signal.
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At #TheBigOne in London health professionals joined forces today to demand action, no matter if physiology, psychology, public health - we stand together because health protection equals climate protection @xrpsychologists
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What's the point of being able to make predictions about the future if we're just going to sit around and watch it happen?
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„One of the things people find helpful is participation, activism and connection with other people, (…) when you are connected to other people, (…) that feeling there is something wrong with you for feeling this way, dissipates because you feel you are making a difference.”
„Morgan says more young people are “understandably” reporting an impact on their mental health because the climate crisis is going to affect them“ ‘Terrified for my future’: climate crisis takes heavy toll on young people’s mental health
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