Inside Knowledge

Show Notes – Natalie Hormann Personal resilience – the ability to cope with stressors, to cope with events that are potentially unpleasant.  Community resilience – coloured and varied, tight knit, able to meet its own needs from within.  Being resourceful and being able to put yourself in a resourceful state.  Important to be able to manage our state. Pre-traumatic stress – stress in anticipation of what is to happen – as relates to the environment.  One component is grief – a feeling of loss in anticipation.  Fear for our children.  What sort of planet are we going to leave behind? An underlying level of distress; a certain level of overwhelm, an inability to grasp what is going on, an inability to address it.  Issues are on such a huge scale that we can feel powerless. Burnout amongst environmental activists.  Very passionate, taking action on the ground, changing their own lifestyle, being engaged in their communities, as well as working full time.  It can get i