Bob Doppelt
Bob Doppelt is Executive Director of The Resource Innovation Group (TRIG), which is affiliated with the Sustainability Institute at Willamette University. He is also a longtime adjunct professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon. Since 2009 he has also been a columnist on climate change and sustainability issues for two Oregon newspapers. He is trained as a counseling psychologist and environmental scientist and has combined the two fields throughout his career. He is a long time mindfulness teach and a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Instructor. He currently directs TRIG's Transformational Resilience Program and coordinates the International Transformational Resilience Coalition.
Works
Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience for Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing
Transformational Resilience calls on all climate programs to rapidly expand beyond emission reductions and physical adaption, to focus on assisting individuals and groups to learn skills to use the adversities caused by climate change to learn, grow and flourish. It calls on mental health, education, and faith leaders to expand beyond post crisis-treatment to emphasize building preventative personal and psychosocial resilience skills. Failure to proactively help people deal constructively with the harmful mental health and psychosocial impacts of climate disruption will seriously impair the safety and health of individuals as well as the security and social wellbeing of organizations, communities and whole societies for generations to come. It will also delay or completely block efforts to reduce the impacts of climate disruption to manageable levels. On the other hand, research shows that building personal and psychosocial resilience can increase personal, social, and environmental wellbeing around the globe.
Awards and Recognition
- In 2015 Bob was honored by the CRS World Congress as one of the world's "50 Most Talented Social Innovators."