Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
250. Why Collective Trauma Is Keeping Us Stuck On Climate
Jun 13, 2024
Renowned teacher Thomas Hübl discusses collective trauma's impact on climate crisis, emphasizing the need to address trauma for societal progress. Topics include pre-traumatic syndrome, solutions amidst trauma, healing ethical transgressions, and fostering collaborative spaces for healing and innovation.
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Quick takeaways
- Trauma responses are intelligent functions that protect us, systemic traumas like colonialism lead to exaggeration and hyperactivation.
- Addressing individual, ancestral, and collective trauma is crucial for societal healing, creating safe spaces unlocks creativity and innovation.
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Understanding Trauma as Intelligent Response to Adverse Experiences
Trauma is not just the experience itself but the response of the system to survive and process it. Thomas Hubel discusses the overuse of the term 'trauma' and distinguishes between capital T and small T trauma. He emphasizes that trauma responses are intelligent functions that protect us in adverse situations. Highlighting systemic trauma like colonialism and racism, he addresses how the societal trauma hierarchy leads to exaggeration and hyperactivation.
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