Psychologists for Future Germany (english)

We're psychologists and psychotherapists (#Psy4F) supporting @FridayForFuture
- because denial has never been so dangerous.

[Global PsyFuture @GlobalPsyFuture]

Join our online symposium on October 14th 23: „From therapy to crisis leadership“
We are inviting all psychologists and psychotherapists (to be). We will focus on tools, skills and best practices we need to gain focus and impact.

Sign up here: https://t.co/1LN5qmpeit

[Nadja Gebhardt @gebhardt_nadja]

📯📯📯Paper Alert 🚨

Honoured to be a part of @rki_de’s status report on #climatechange and #health. Our #mentalhealth is at risk, due to heat, extreme weather events, and an awareness for the existential threat we’re facing. 🧶1/3

https://t.co/fmYoe1zMyz

[Lea Dohm @LeaDohm]

„What people needed from the media was above all an honest portrayal of the facts, said Lea Dohm, a psychologist and co-founder of the German climate action group @Psychologists4F.“

https://t.co/u9HlY6py4E

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

Image description: Young girl showing a newspaper to an adult. Adult says accusingly: "How about if your generation spends less time studying how my generation destroyed the environment, and m o r e time figuring out a magical solution?"

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

There are two ways to cope with shame: repression or helping to build a safer future for the younger generation.

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

The young?

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

***Stop scrolling***

We know things look bad.

But that does not mean that we are not still here.

We are loud. And we are capable. #ClimateAction

[aja monet @aja_monet]

if you aren’t careful you’ll let social media and the news make you believe life ain’t beautiful and that people arent doin miraculous things every day to help, heal, transform, and shift society.

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

If you feel uncomfortable - good. Disruption is part of the process. If we allow ourselves to stop and listen, #transformation can grow from it.

[The Response @ResponsePodcast]

“... utopian visions of how to build a different future often follow moments of great social upheaval. Ordinary people find themselves unmoored from the realities they want to believe to be fixed and immutable—”the order of things” is disturbed... (1/2)

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

„How we manage this global crisis, and how humanely we treat each other as we migrate, will be key to whether this century of upheaval proceeds smoothly or with violent conflict and unnecessary deaths.(…) Migration is our way out of this crisis.“
#CEAS

https://t.co/gm8fM75FGV

[Lea Dohm @LeaDohm]

„I often hear people ask, “Why should I deprive myself of X pleasure or Y entitlement, when it won’t really make any difference?” Such a narrow focus on individual impact reveals how much the myth of individualism constricts us.“ https://t.co/qN0gXSIn3z

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

💬 Dr Patrick Hart, 37, a GP from Bristol, who took part in the action, said:

“I am doing this because it’s my duty as a doctor. The climate crisis is the greatest health crisis humanity has ever faced. People are dying now and more will die every day unless we stop new oil, gas and coal.”

“In the same way the tobacco companies lied to us that tobacco was safe, the scrum of fossil fuel companies and corrupt politicians have been lying to us. They are keeping us addicted to fossil fuels, even though they know it’s killing us. I am not prepared to let them get away with mass murder.

We are ordinary people. We are the doctors and nurses who care for you when you are sick. I call on everyone to come and join us in the streets and be on the right side of history.”

#SARvSAL #GallagherPremFinal #Twickenham

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Put her in charge of all things, she’s amazing.

[Matthias Schmelzer @MGSchmelzer]

Big Oil is successfully manipulating the way we think about climate change. Instead of focusing on stopping the burning of fossil fuels, public attention revolves around individual carbon footprints or carbon sequestration.

The red herring fallacy at work
https://t.co/Sbu9tMetPB

[XR Psychologists @XRPsychologists]

Are we reaching a critical social tipping point? “perhaps more so than any other generation currently practising law, this generation highly values social justice and altruism”.

[BEADS-Lab @BeadsLab]

@julia_asbrand at #dpk2023: therapist are mostly reflected, still we also have unconscious biases (re race, gender, SES background...). Specific person groups are more affected by crises but are not reached by therapy offers.

[Dr Peter Knapp @peteknapp.bsky.social @PeteK_AQ]

Have you been fooled by the fossil fuel industry?

Here are their 12 tricks...

Paper written by @lamb_wf @giulio_mattioli @seb_levi @TimmonsRoberts @StuartBCapstick @efesce @PriestleyCentre @MCC_Berlin @trevordculhane @JKSteinberger

Music: 'Excuses' by @morningbenders

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

Can you spot the @GlobalPsyFuture logo 👀?

The global network we are part of is represented at the Planetary Health Hub along with other health professionals in London this weekend. Exciting! #TheBigOne @XRPsychologists @ClimatePsychol @ClimateNa

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

Image description: A group of psychologists from Extinction Rebellion at „The Big One“ in London. They are holding a big banner saying: „we need to talk about the climate crisis“ and a flag showing the earth with a red line that looks like a cardiac signal.

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

At #TheBigOne in London health professionals joined forces today to demand action, no matter if physiology, psychology, public health - we stand together because health protection equals climate protection @xrpsychologists

[Health for XR @DoctorsXr]

Physiologists say, we need to talk about the #ClimateCrisis! @XRPsychologists

#TheBigOne @DHSCgovuk

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

What's the point of being able to make predictions about the future if we're just going to sit around and watch it happen?

[Psychologists for Future Germany (english) @Psy4Future_Eng]

„One of the things people find helpful is participation, activism and connection with other people, (…) when you are connected to other people, (…) that feeling there is something wrong with you for feeling this way, dissipates because you feel you are making a difference.”

[Lea Dohm @LeaDohm]

„Morgan says more young people are “understandably” reporting an impact on their mental health because the climate crisis is going to affect them“

‘Terrified for my future’: climate crisis takes heavy toll on young people’s mental health https://t.co/SNsR2Z6qYF