About
Bob Doppelt founded and coordinates the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), a national and global network of mental health, human services, climate, education, faith and other organizations working to enact policies and programs to prevent and heal the mental health and psychosocial problems generated by the climate emergency and engage people in climate solutions. For almost a decade he directed the Climate Leadership Initiative in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at the University of Oregon, where he also taught systems thinking and global warming policy. For over a decade he was a columnist on climate change and sustainability issues for the Register Guard newspaper in Oregon. He is trained as in counseling psychology and environmental science and has combined the two fields throughout his career. He is also a long time mindfulness teach and a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Instructor. In 2015 he was named one of the world's "50 Most Talented Social Innovators" by the CRS World Congress.
Featured Work
Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience for Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing
Transformational Resilience calls on all climate programs to rapidly expand beyond emission reductions and physical adaption, to focus on assisting individuals and groups to learn skills to use the adversities caused by climate change to learn, grow and flourish. It calls on mental health, education, and faith leaders to expand beyond post crisis-treatment to emphasize building preventative personal and psychosocial resilience skills. Failure to proactively help people deal constructively with the harmful mental health and psychosocial impacts of climate disruption will seriously impair the safety and health of individuals as well as the security and social wellbeing of organizations, communities and whole societies for generations to come. It will also delay or completely block efforts to reduce the impacts of climate disruption to manageable levels. On the other hand, research shows that building personal and psychosocial resilience can increase personal, social, and environmental wellbeing around the globe.
Other Works
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Preventing and Healing Climate Trauma: A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities
Forthcoming in March 2023
Awards and Recognition
- In 2015 Bob was honored by the CRS World Congress as one of the world's "50 Most Talented Social Innovators."