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Renee Lertzman

Dr. Renée Lertzman is a founder, psychologist, researcher, and strategist. Her work, spanning corporations, governments, nonprofits, and communities across the globe—is built on a simple but radical premise: the capacity for change already exists in people. Our job is to unlock it. Renée has advised senior leaders and leadership teams at Google, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, WWF, Live Nation, and the White House, and her TED Talk, How to Turn Climate Anxiety into Action, has been viewed over two million times. She is the author of Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement and the founder of the acclaimed Project InsideOut. Her forthcoming book, So You Want to Change the World? Creating the Future You Want from the Inside Out (Viking 2027), is the culmination of thirty years of practice and research at the intersection of psychology and planetary change. Learn more at reneelertzman.com.
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Replacing the “Behavior Change” Playbook

For decades, climate and environmental advocates have tried to close the gap between what people know and what they do. Frustrated, our answer has been “more”: more information, more urgency, more compelling imagery. But what if the problem is our misunderstanding of the problem?

Meeting the Paradox of Inaction with Compassion

What if we better understood each other? We have a responsibility to investigate our own perceptions about how others are feeling the challenge of existential crises. What possibilities might such understanding open up for us all?
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An Interview with Renée Lertzman by Sam Mowe

How might we skillfully work with the emotional dimensions of ecological crises? In this interview, Renée Lertzman explores the challenges—and potential gifts—of eco-anxiety.
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EcoDharma
How can we work with reactivity—our own, and others'—and create the conditions for a truly effective response to ecological crises?

Compassionate Reflection

Our ultimate goal is transformation at depth but we can’t get there unless we recognize ourselves with compassion. We need to understand how it is we found ourselves in this astonishing situation. In a process that involves not just mind, but heart and body, we are looking back, remembering both for ourselves and our people the causes and conditions that led us here. With great care and attention, we begin to untangle the tangle.