{"id":4094,"date":"2025-02-05T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onenatureinstitute.org\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2025-02-05T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:32:57","slug":"in-a-world-in-crisis-how-do-we-find-hope-and-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onenatureinstitute.org\/stories\/blog\/in-a-world-in-crisis-how-do-we-find-hope-and-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"In a world in crisis \u2013 how do we find hope and resilience?"},"content":{"rendered":"
It has been a week of upheaval in the global conservation and development space. We are so lucky to have a guest post this week from Clara Schoeder who recently interviewed me for her book. Her forthcoming book, \u201cRe-Nature: A path to healing yourself and our planet\u201d <\/strong><\/em>may be a helpful resource for us as we reaffirm our commitment to well-being for all beings amidst turbulent times.<\/p>\n Beth Allgood, Founder and Executive Director, OneNature.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In an era of political turmoil, global uncertainty, and climate crisis, it can feel harder and harder to find hope and optimism for the future.<\/em><\/p>\n That\u2019s where I come in.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n My name is Clara Schroeder and I\u2019m an ecotherapist<\/strong> and author on climate and mental health. I am passionate about creating sustainable wellbeing and making resilience accessible in these unprecedented times. I\u2019m so passionate in fact, that, after surviving a traumatic brain injury, I decided to widen my impact and make these tools available to everyone who needs them. That\u2019s why I wrote my debut book \u201cRe-Nature: A path to healing yourself and our planet\u201d <\/strong><\/em>(available for pre-order<\/a>) covering both the mental health impacts of the climate crisis, and the promise that nature connection can fuel sustainable behavior.<\/p>\n Based on the dozen experts I interviewed for the book, and the five years I spent doing research and working with clients, I have identified 3 key pillars that fuel hope and resilience.<\/p>\n These pillars are:<\/p>\n \u201cHope is really, at the end of the day, the only thing that will matter when it comes to climate. It\u2019s not just trying to help people feel positive in the moment or just a simple reframing. With eco-anxiety, what you really have is so much uncertainty and so much negativity that all the preconditions for hope are present. It\u2019s about understanding that there needs to be a sense of agency. It\u2019s about asking yourself \u201cwhat is it that I can do to bring about change?\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Dr. Dan Tomasulo\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Creating a vision for the future where hopefulness comes with an action plan is one way to get unstuck from the doom & gloom picture that is portrayed daily by the media.<\/p>\n \u201cThe capacity to adapt to challenges is flexibility. Our research more recently has shown that most people actually are flexible\u2026 that flexibility is inherent in the human brain.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Dr. Bonnano\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n So if flexibility is an inherent human skill, how can we practice it and adapt to new ways of being, thinking and doing? These are concepts that I know also lie at the core of OneNature\u2019s approach to wildlife conservation and community wellbeing.<\/p>\n Similarly, the more people go out of their way to give back and support other friends, neighbors or community members, the more their own wellbeing increases. That\u2019s what Dr. Jyoti Mishra<\/a>, a neuroscientist at the University of California San Diego, terms \u201csurvive-and-thrive\u201d: \u201cIn many times, for these kinds of disasters, we put them in this framework of doom and gloom, but we need to shift that to a survive-and-thrive framework, where the planet that we have is just one planet and that if we all work together, we can make better things happen\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Dr. Mishra\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n So next time the world feels too heavy and the future too bleak, come back to these 3 proven pillars of wellbeing: survive and thrive through the crisis by practicing adaptability and a flexible mindset, build community and social connection, and transform uncertainty into action!<\/p>\n\n
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