Climate Coaching: Navigating Emotions and Taking Action in a Changing World
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The podcast "REJUVENAGING with Dr. Ron Kaiser" welcomed Alexandra Arnold, a climate coach and graduate from the Climate Change Coaches Training Program. Dr. Ron Kaiser was intrigued by climate coaching due to the increasing anxiety and concerns people have about climate change, something he hadn't encountered in his work until recently. Alex shared her journey into climate coaching, explaining that it combines her passion for the environment with her coaching skills rooted in positive psychology.
Alex's interest in climate coaching was sparked when she realized that she didn't have to conform to traditional climate activism but could leverage her strengths and values to make a different type of meaningful contribution. She discovered the Climate Coaching Alliance, became a member, and enrolled in a climate change coach training program.
Dr. Ron asked about the specific role of a climate change coach. Alex explained that climate coaches support individuals and organizations in various ways, such as:
- Helping activists deal with burnout and emotional responses to climate change.
- Assisting people in processing complex emotions related to climate change, including anxiety, despair, and grief.
- Collaboratively exploring clients' strengths, values, and areas of interest for taking climate action.
- Shifting mindsets to promote resilience and adaptability in the face of climate-related uncertainty.
Alex noted that climate anxiety is a complex issue with no easy answers. People can be jolted into awareness by climate-related events like floods or storms. However, the emotional responses to climate change are diverse and multifaceted, making it challenging to generalize. People may experience sadness, despair, hopelessness, shame, guilt, fear and grief in regard to climate change, in addition to anxiety - and each new event can have an additive emotional effect.
The discussion concluded with an exploration of how some individuals respond to climate anxiety by becoming advocates or participating in climate-focused organizations. Alex emphasized that these individuals may experience post-traumatic growth, using their concerns as motivation for proactive engagement in climate action. Climate coaching helps individuals navigate their unique emotional responses and find ways to contribute positively to the cause.
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| 0:00.0 | heard about a program in a Champlain College. So I live in Vermont, Champlain College is right in |
| 0:06.4 | my backyard and there's the Cooper Riders Center for appreciative inquiry. And so I learned about |
| 0:11.7 | this methodology and really this philosophy of appreciative inquiry and I was really fascinated |
| 0:18.0 | by that. It was very refreshing, really giving me a lot of hope because the focus with appreciative |
| 0:25.5 | inquiry is really to move away from traditional problems, solving approaches and focusing on |
| 0:31.9 | what works, focusing on successes and skills, values. Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. |
| 0:39.5 | This is a podcast designed to help you lead your life enthusiastically today, tomorrow and every |
| 0:46.3 | other day. I am your host, Ron Kaiser, a positive health psychologist and coach, also author of the |
| 0:53.2 | triple award-winning book Rejuvenaging, The Arjun Science is growing older with enthusiasm, |
| 0:59.6 | also a keynote and TEDx speaker and obviously the host of this podcast. As listeners of the podcast, |
| 1:08.2 | no, my goal is always to bring you guests who lead their own lives with enthusiasm and have |
| 1:15.3 | different ways of helping us to become better versions of ourselves. And we try and bring that |
| 1:22.6 | message to you from different angles. Today we're really starting with a totally different angle |
| 1:30.2 | than anything we've done before. Alexandra Arnold is a member of the Climate Coaching Alliance |
| 1:38.6 | and graduate from Climate Change Coaches training program. And she's also an accredited |
| 1:49.8 | personal development and climate resilience coach at her at her coaching program called Alma |
| 1:59.4 | Coaching and Consulting. I really got interested in having Alex appear as a guest because in recent |
| 2:12.0 | months, I've started to experience a phenomena that I hadn't really experienced much before and |
| 2:20.1 | that's people talking to me about the anxiety they're having about climate change, about where |
| 2:28.6 | it's going to lead, what the world is going to be like, what kind of a world we're leaving for our |
| 2:35.1 | children and grandchildren and so on. Not anything that I had in my training so I wanted to |
| 2:43.0 | get somebody who can talk to this because I'm sure if I'm hearing it, other people are hearing it too. |
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