This course serves as an introduction to and overview of the certificate program, Psychology of Resilience: Addressing Ecoanxiety and Climate Distress for Individual, Social, Ecological Wellbeing, as well as a conclusion. You will explore the two major concepts in the course title: “resilience” and “Anthropocene.” We will introduce our framework for understanding how resilience at a personal, community and planetary level are interconnected and interdependent, and ask you to think about where they fit in the systems you would like to change. While this is an online course and certificate program, some of the modules in this particular course will invite you to build resilience not only for yourself but to act in your particular contexts and communities, to build bridges with your neighbors and to put your hands on the earth. This course also invites you to consider the entire certificate program as modular and the ideas presented within it as interconnected, meaning you can follow the sequence as the course is presented or figure out which sections and topics are most relevant to you. We invite you to return to this first course after completing (or dabbling in) later courses in the sequence, as this course is intended as both an introduction and a conclusion to the program. Throughout the certificate program, and especially in this course, you will be encouraged to think metacognitively about your psychological and emotional engagement with environmental and climate issues, to build resilience and courage in the face of the changes that we face, to center the vulnerable, to think in systems and to see self-reflection as preparation for action.
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