Resilience anger and grief

Trying to stop Climate Change is a negative, restructuring society is a positive. One of our roles will be to find how to defuse the rage and channel it into ways that benefit the community.

Note: You can view, add questions and provide answers in the Problems and Solutions Forum. Follow the links Resilience and Wellbeing to open in a new window.

Discussion Points:

• Building community resilience and downsize expectations

• Common psychological reactions are violence, unsettling grief, blame

• Dealing with the inevitable anger and grief, and panic

• Many wont want to take in what is happening –Denial

• Many are used to playing the victim role

• Can we afford to be bleeding hearts, is there any role for compassion

• Advantages of meditation, group sharing, useful work

• Education for all in new environment

• To be strong seems cruel, how be both clear and compassionate?

• Therapy sessions, individually and in groups, and meditation

• Local support groups for specific needs and areas

• Working bees, integrate refugees from the coast and cities

• Survey of healers and therapists