This list of resources is meant to give Resilience+ members a collection of ideas, tools, and organizational contacts that can help build emotional resilience. Thanks to Leslie Davenport, climate psychologist and advisor to Post Carbon Institute, for helping to prepare this list. Resilience+ members are encouraged to seek the support they need to navigate stressful situations and maintain the emotional stamina required to engage in transformational change. Books
- Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power (revised edition), New World Library, 2022.
- Kaira Jewel Lingo, We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons for Moving through Change, Loss, and Disruption, Parallax Press, 2021.
- Britt Wray, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Eco-Anxiety, Penguin Random House Canada, 2022.
- LaUra Schmidt, Aimee Lewis Reau, and Chelsie Rivera, How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: Ten Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet, Shambhala Publications, 2023.
- Lise van Susteren and Stacey Colino, Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times, Sounds True, 2020.
- Sarah Jacquette Ray, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, University of California Press, 2020.
- Leslie Davenport, Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician’s Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017. Note from Leslie: This book has worksheets throughout, but also 12 exercises in the back. Three favorite exercises are: (1) “Transformational Leadership,” pp 81-2; (2) “Garden State,” pp 162-3; and (3) “The Stretch Zone,” pp. 167-9.
- Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, North Atlantic Books, 2021.
- Leslie Davenport has written two books for supporting children, the first for tweens and the second for eight- to ten-year-olds:
- Leslie Davenport, All the Feelings Under the
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