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Lessons from the climate anxiety counseling booth : how to live with care and purpose in an endangered world / Kate Schapira.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 234 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780306831676
  • 0306831678
  • 9780306831683
  • 0306831686
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Contents:
Introduction : you are here -- Guidelines for the questions and practices -- Ground truthing : from isolation to connection -- "The world belongs to everybody" : from fear and hoarding to planning and welcome -- Managed burn : from alienation to intimacy and stewardship -- A confusing blessing : from grief to possibility -- On company time : from the boss's priorities to yours -- Changing the story : from individual motivation to collective action -- Fighting on our own ground : from anger (and fear) to constructive conflict -- What happens now : from despair to (re)imagination.
Summary: "In 2013, Kate Schapira sat in her office at Brown University and read about acidic waters, ecological imbalance, dead zones, and zombie ecosystems. Before then, she'd had the same broad understanding of climate change that most people did at the time, but these articles on the permanent disappearance of coral reefs filled her with such hopelessness that she desperately needed an outlet-someone or someone to talk to who understood how she was feeling. Soon, she was setting up a Peanuts-style "The Doctor Is In" booth in her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, to talk about climate change with her community. Ten years and over 1,200 conversations later, Schapira channels all she's learned into an accessible, understandable, and aware guide for processing climate anxiety and affecting real change in people's lives and communities. Filled with stories, questions, and exercises, "Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth" focuses on five action verbs that readers can use to build their climate resilience: recognize, release, find, build, and become. All the stories, questions, and practices included in this book have helped someone find what they wanted or needed, whether in the moment or for the years to come. Through their use of this book, readers will move through their personal and general climate anxiety, frustration, helplessness, and grief toward a sense of shared purpose and community care. "Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth" meets readers where they are with thoughtful and practical strategies to help solve this growing crisis in a way that doesn't sugarcoat the realities or scream fragility and instead offers communal support"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Climate anxiety is real--and this practical, accessible guide helps address it on personal, relational, and structural levels, from the founder of the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth.

Summer after summer is the hottest on record. People's homes are flooding, burning, blowing away. We live with the loss, pain, and grief of what's happened, and anxiety for what might happen next, as the systems in which we live are increasingly strained. Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth addresses our collective concerns with empathy, grace, and practical strategies to help us all envision a viable future. By moving through your personal and general climate anxiety, frustration, helplessness and grief, you can move toward a sense of shared purpose and community care. You'll find actionable steps for connecting with others, identifying and activating community abundance, matching your skills with organized climate activism, and imagining a radically more livable future in order to bring it into being. Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth meets you where you are, not sugarcoating the realities of this growing crisis, but offering practical strategies for meeting a climate-changed present and future with emotional honesty and communal support.



In 2014, when Kate Schapira first set up a Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, far fewer people were talking about climate change and its attendant anxiety, leaving those who couldn't ignore climate change and the forces that cause it feeling frantic and alone. Seeking a way to reach out and connect, Schapira set up a Peanuts -style "The Doctor Is In" booth to talk about climate change with her community. Ten years and over 1200 conversations later, Schapira channels all she's learned into an accessible, understandable, and aware guide for processing climate anxiety and connecting with others to carry out real change in your life and in your community.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : you are here -- Guidelines for the questions and practices -- Ground truthing : from isolation to connection -- "The world belongs to everybody" : from fear and hoarding to planning and welcome -- Managed burn : from alienation to intimacy and stewardship -- A confusing blessing : from grief to possibility -- On company time : from the boss's priorities to yours -- Changing the story : from individual motivation to collective action -- Fighting on our own ground : from anger (and fear) to constructive conflict -- What happens now : from despair to (re)imagination.

"In 2013, Kate Schapira sat in her office at Brown University and read about acidic waters, ecological imbalance, dead zones, and zombie ecosystems. Before then, she'd had the same broad understanding of climate change that most people did at the time, but these articles on the permanent disappearance of coral reefs filled her with such hopelessness that she desperately needed an outlet-someone or someone to talk to who understood how she was feeling. Soon, she was setting up a Peanuts-style "The Doctor Is In" booth in her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, to talk about climate change with her community. Ten years and over 1,200 conversations later, Schapira channels all she's learned into an accessible, understandable, and aware guide for processing climate anxiety and affecting real change in people's lives and communities. Filled with stories, questions, and exercises, "Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth" focuses on five action verbs that readers can use to build their climate resilience: recognize, release, find, build, and become. All the stories, questions, and practices included in this book have helped someone find what they wanted or needed, whether in the moment or for the years to come. Through their use of this book, readers will move through their personal and general climate anxiety, frustration, helplessness, and grief toward a sense of shared purpose and community care. "Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth" meets readers where they are with thoughtful and practical strategies to help solve this growing crisis in a way that doesn't sugarcoat the realities or scream fragility and instead offers communal support"-- Provided by publisher.

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