Psychologist Renée Lertzman site 
goes further, pointing out that talking about climate can challenge some of our most deeply held beliefs and stir up some of our biggest fears – which we typically prefer to avoid doing. And people who are anxious and alarmed can’t remain alarmed forever. Eventually, we overload and check out.
TED renee_lertzman_how_to_turn_climate_anxiety_into_action How to turn climate anxiety into action
In her TED Talk, How to Turn Climate Anxiety into Action, Renée explains that when we humans experience stress of any kind, if it becomes more than we can tolerate, we collapse. One possible outcome of this collapse is depression, despair, and shutting down.
HAYHOE, Katharine, 2021. Saving us: a climate scientist’s case for hope and healing in a divided world. New York: One Signal Publishers. ISBN 978-1-982143-83-1.
> “Called ‘one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change’ by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it-and she wants to teach you how. In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field-recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change”--
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# Exponentially Accelerate Our Capacities to Be Creative
We're all on the frontlines right now. And it's my belief, after years of straddling these worlds between environment and climate and psychology, that this actually is a missing ingredient in our work that can exponentially accelerate our capacities to be creative and resilient and capable and skillful and courageous and all those things that the world is needing from us right now.
[…] And so when that happens, we actually lose our capacity to be integrated, resilient, adaptive, all those things that we want to be. And this is totally normal, but it's happening all around the world right now, right? We're all vacillating between these different feelings and emotions.
"And we all have a threshold. And what happens when we experience stress beyond what we can tolerate? We tend to go into the edges of our window. And on one hand, we might go into a sort of collapse, what's called a chaotic response, which looks like depression, despair, kind of a shutting down." For more on the window of tolerance and chaos-rigid responses, see Daniel Siegel's books Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology and Mindsight.
* Attunement, to tune
[…] bring Curiosity into our own experience, which then allows us to attune socially, […]
[…] And I know, without doubt, 100 percent, that each one of us has the capacity to meet these challenges with the ingenuity and brilliance and bravery that we as humans have. […]
See here for more on Daniel Siegel's definition of attunement. For more on self-attunement, see Sarah Peyton's book Your Resonant Self. For more on attachment theory, see Louis Cozolino's work here and here.
"... and again, this allows us to move into the higher level functioning. The executive function, the prefrontal cortex ..." Social Baseline Theory describes how attachment influences experience of the self as it relates to risk-taking behavior. For more on how naming emotions affects emotional experiences, see here.
[…] the brain responds to being alone as if sensory stimuli have been added, not taken away. That is, the brain looks more ‘at rest’ when social resources are obviously available [10]. This presents a puzzle potentially resolvable by considering proximity to a familiar other the brain’s true ‘baseline’ state, and being alone as more like an experimental treatment — a context that adds perceived work for the brain to do.
[…] At its simplest, SBT suggests that proximity to social resources decreases the cost of climbing both the literal and figurative hills we face, because the brain construes social resources as bioenergetic resources, much like oxygen or glucose. Indeed, evidence suggests that hills literally appear less steep when standing next to a friend [14].
⇒ Putting feelings into words: Affect Labeling as implicit emotion regulation. page
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BRÅTEN, STEIN, 1984. The Third Position—beyond Artificial and Autopoietic Reduction. Kybernetes. 1 January 1984. Vol. 13, no. 3, p. 157–163. DOI 10.1108/eb005686.
Systems operating in and by themselves (auto) need to be distinguished from those made for and by others (allo), and require additional operational explanations. (p. 158)
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In another series, the participants had a routing task with reference to maps that were not identical, but were believed to be so (Blakar's map design). It was surprising to observe how long participants carried on without suspecting anything. Self-reflective comments upon video playback indicate that when they became aware something might be wrong, they resorted—among other strategies—to shifting among perspectives and alternating between different kinds of symbolic representations. Why would such a break-down evoke such a resort to a boundary position of reflection? One reason may be that, since they are usually being involved in an intersubjective world of meanings, the insiders cannot refer to it qua insiders. The above incidents occurred in the artificial setting of a laboratory. However, events in more naturally evolving groups, discussing 'Our Computer Milieu of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow', also indicate that shifts from an insider's position to a boundary position, through the group's own usage of self-reflective video playback, have served to restore a meaning-tight platform for agreement and for disagreement. The conversation sometimes breaks down and participants may show anger when others falsely attribute viewpoints to them that are based on misunderstanding. Relief is expressed when the platform is re-established—even when there is disagreement, as long as it rests on intersubjective understanding.
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[…] Now, assume a closed domain of discourse between model-strong A and model-weak B (according to the above definition). This may occur in a class room, in a board room, in the Socratic dialogue Gorgias, in the context of what J. Habermas terms "the Ideal Speech Situation", or in the above context of national economy planning and steering. The second postulate (P2) implies: […]
[…] The ultimate control is reached when B's adoption not merely gives A the power to simulate B's behaviour, but even of simulating B's simulations, which are now carried out in terms of the models or simulation devices developed on A's premises.
*Members of the socioeconomic planning elite* in Norway, with the Frisch paradigm as the A-perspective, themselves acknowledged the need for a strong position and stated: "Manipulation of aggregated macro-entities was something which only an authoritarian political-administrative system could carry out". If model power mechanisms operate, together with attempted adjustments of the "territory" to the "map", control may then be in part established, especially since the map already is part of the territory – at least as long as the territory does not exhibit catastrophic shifts.
A shift did eventually occur, due to the international economic depression that occurred in the middle of the 1970's. But even though this control was finally broken, this case not only exemplifies the establishment of a model monopoly, but also shows that the cybernetic paradigm of social systems regulation through symbolic representations is operational only under certain limiting conditions. The historic task of reconstructing a country called for joint and cooperative efforts, a common model platform, and firm leadership. The Norwegian economy was steered in a certain manner, and this mode of steering worked as long as the international environment exhibited a certain degree of stable growth. But even when the environmental shift occurred, the socioeconomic elite continued for a while as if their model was still valid. It took outsiders to recognize that the territory had changed, and that alternative maps were required. There was a gradual recognition of self-regulatory market mechanisms, and of system-internal participatory transformations, operating under their own law, conforming to the conditions consistent with the closure position, (B).
[…] transreferential operations, which involve shifting between self-referencing and other-referencing.
[…] In the case of socioeconomic planning in Norway, this would mean redefining the universe of discourse from that of national to international economy; or, more drastically, from that of economic behaviour to that of social interaction. Another mode (2) is to allow for the emergence of rival maps of the same territory, by admission of rival model sources, or, preferably, by taking time to develop new models based on one's own premises. Again, in the case of the Norwegian economy, this would have meant the concurrent nourishment of rival model candidates going against those of the socioeconomic establishment, in the manner of "devil's advocate".
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BRÅTEN, Stein, 2009. The intersubjective mirror in infant learning and evolution of speech. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Advances in consciousness research, v. 76. ISBN 978-90-272-5212-8.
Dialogue on Intersubjectivity: An Interview with Stein Bråten and Colwyn Trevarthen | Stensæth | Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 2016. Online. [Accessed 10 August 2020]. Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221417/https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/viewArticle/682/568
**Trondalen**: Yes, and the dialoguing also… I remember the interview with Steven Malloch and you (Trevarthen) and I think the heading was “the dance of well-being.”
**Bråten**: In one of the books I have edited On Being Moved: From Mirror Neurons to Empathy there were chapters on music, one by Birgit Kirkebæk on interplay between a musician and a deaf-blind child, and a chapter on “From infants to jazz” by Ben Schöger and Colwyn (Trevarthen).
BRÅTEN, Stein (ed.), 2007. On being moved: from mirror neurons to empathy. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Advances in consciousness research, v. 68. ISBN 978-90-272-5204-3.
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