Exploring Mourning and Motivation: Impacts Hour with Renee Lertzman
Channel: Human Impacts Institute
Date: 05/12/2016

How do we navigate the lines between experiencing the gravity of loss and the need to motivate action? How do we come together in times that are difficult or overwhelming? In what ways can we become stronger, while allowing for sadness? Join us as we discuss this and your questions with with author and climate psychologist Renee Lertzman. 

Renee Lertzman has been bridging psychodynamic research and environmental issues for more 20 years. An internationally recognized thought leader and adviser, Renee works with organizations, professionals, and practitioners from government, business, philanthropic, and non-governmental sectors to design research tools, engagement practices, and strategies suited for the uniquely challenging nature of environmental work. Renee’s first book, Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement, was published by Routledge in 2015. Learn more at: ReneeLertzman.com

Alicia Escott is an artist interested in the function of rapid evolution in a moment of profound global change. Her works touch on conservation, mediating climate change, technology, rapid species loss, adaption, the singularity, solastalgia, living through the anthropocene and the experience of love and loss in a human life. Learn more at AliciaEscott.com

Impacts Hours are curated conversations, where inspiring people share their knowledge, ideas, stories, and solutions in beautiful and engaging ways.  Impacts Hours are an initiative of the Human Impacts Institute whose mission is to inspire YOU to transform environmental challenges into social action for a just and livable world.  Learn more at HumanImpactsInstitute.org