Resilience
Resources for your heart and mind
ESSAYS, POEMS, AND MORE…
5 things that can help alleviate eco-anxiety: By Dekila Chungyalpa for Psychology Today
A map to the next world: A poem by Joy Harjo
Breathing with the forest: An Immersive video experience with Emergence Magazine
EcoPsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health from Yale 360
Envision the future of your community: David Suzuki Foundation
I am blessed: A song to sing out loud by Desirée Dawson
We were made for these times: An Essay by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES
Befriending Eco-Anxiety; Mindful Practices for Moving Through Grief, Loss, and Change by Kaira Jewel
Dadirri; A Deep Listening video with Auntie Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr
On the other side of anger: A meditation led by Dekila Chungyalpa for the RITA Summit
On the other side of despair: A contempation led by Rev. Bobbi Patterson for the RITA Summit
On the other side of grief: A somatic practice led by Prentiss Hemphill for the RITA Summit
Tonglen with the Earth: A meditation led by Dekila for the Healthy Minds app
Loka’s recommendations
Resources on Ecological Emotions
Active Hope; How to Face the Mess We Are In - Book by Joanna Macy
“Building Your Resilience” Article from the American Psychological Association
“From anger to action: Differential impacts of eco-anxiety, eco-depression, and eco-anger on climate action and wellbeing” - Academic article by S. Stanley, T. Hogg, Z. Leviston and I Walker
Generation Dread; Finding Purpose in An Age of Climate Anxiety - Book by Britt Wray
“How the Climate Crisis is Impacting Black People” - Article by Antjuan Seawright
How to Live in a Chaotic Climate - Book by Laura Schmidt
People of Color Experience Climate Grief More Deeply - Article by Nylah Burton
“Who Gets to Have Eco-Anxiety?” - Article by Joseph Weiss
Resources on Deep Thinking, Deep Resilience
A Framework for Deep Resilience in the Anthropocene, An open access conceptual framework paper by the Loka Initiative
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, A book by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
bell hooks on Interlocking Systems of Domination: A short video interview
Capitalism Is “A Form of Religion” Stopping Solutions to Climate Change & Inequality: Video interview with Arundhati Roy
Ecofeminism: A book by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
Relational Systems Thinking: An article by Melanie Goodchild
The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: An essay by Audre Lorde
White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization: An article by Kyle Powys Whyte
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