thegreatstory | LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis-Reau (Good Grief Network): Post-doom with Michael Dowd @thegreatstory | Uploaded September 2019 | Updated October 2024, 48 seconds ago.
Co-founders of the "Good Grief Network" converse with host Michael Dowd in the Post-doom conversation series. Timecoded table of contents:
00:10 Title - "Good Grief" - goodgriefnetwork.org
00:14 Preview (Aimee Lewis-Reau; AL) - intro to Good Grief Network
00:53 Host Michael Dowd (MD)
01:24 LaUra Schmidt (LS) - Intro to Good Grief Network, peer-to-peer
01:54 LS - journey of awareness into eco- and climate-grief
03:59 LS - 10 steps grief origin during Terry Tempest Williams' class
04:52 Image lists the 10 Steps, while LS introduces it
05:25 LS and MD - The last step to be added was honoring death
06:22 AL - began in human rights activism; disconnection is the root problem
07:05 MD - human supremacy underlies white supremacy, all supremacies
07:21 AL - path as a writer; importance of poetry, just sit with hard emotions
08:29 AL - a lot of depression in her 20s, so finding meaning is crucial
08:56 MD - Q: your history in finding each other and collaborating?
09:17 LS - story of meeting in college; best friends for 9 years
10:37 AL - story of moving beyond friendship to love relationship
11:35 MD - the gift of having love relationship also be your legacy work
12:34 MD - Q: What terms do you prefer in "post-doom" identifiers
12:55 LS - Climate change is a symptom of root problem of disconnection
14:28 MD - his story away from techno-optimism 2012; Catton's Overshoot
15:42 MD - language of disconnection objectifies the biosphere
16:53 LS - problem of reducing real beings and dynamics to words, symbols
17:18 MD - gives examples of post-doom terminologies
18:02 AL - preferred word is "collapse" (collapse of all kinds, not specific)
19:31 MD - this series inspired by D. Jamail, B. Cecil, J. Bendell, C. Ingram
20:30 MD - death of meaning, worldviews, secular religion of perpetual progress
21:16 MD - Q: Each tell your journey in more depth
22:18 AL - grew up in American Dream family; but false sense of security
23:15 AL - turning point = writing retreat living with retired Catholic nuns
24:26 LS - troubled childhood, loss, deaths; never fit into the main paradigm
26:27 MD - Q: asks LS whether 12-step recovery work in her experience
26:46 LS - crucial experience in Al-Anon; Adult Children of Alcoholics
29:07 MD - Q: is big picture, deep time, epic of evolution helpful?
29:29 AL - childhood sorrow when told Sun would die; now helps fully live
30:30 MD - Joel Primack - interpret we are stardust or nuclear waste of stars
31:12 LS - contemplating biodiversity engenders humility; offers beauty
32:53 MD - Q: how do you see the past? "if-only's" or sense of inevitable?
33:38 LS - used to think industrial revolution or storing food; now deep biology
35:45 AL - ability to create tools put us on this path; beyond blame
36:40 AL - what matters now is to offer new worldviews as existing crumble
37:13 MD - how we measure wealth is crucial; security in relationships not things
37:34 LS - humanity in a rite of passage; crucial to learn of indigenous cultures
39:16 MD - human centeredness is downfall; Q: impermanence and death?
40:31 LS - describes STEP 4: honoring mortality; dealing with death anxiety
42:46 MD - death anxiety is western culture; indigenous continuity with time
43:45 LS - Roy Scranton military experience: "I'm dead already" creates calm
44:30 AL - story of realizing that original 9 grief steps missing topic of death
45:08 LS - deep depression offers focus on death as a teacher
46:09 MD - Q: What is "the gift" on the other side of the post-doom doorway?
46:34 AL - Finding the gift/healing is central to the 10-step good grief process
48:28 - Remainder of the video is WALKING THROUGH THE TEN STEPS
49:44 LS - STEP 1: Accept the severity of the predicament
50:35 LS and AL - STEP 2: Acknowledge I am part of the problem and solution
53:07 LS - STEP 3: Practice sitting with uncertainty; let go of expected outcome
53:53 LS - STEP 4: Honor my own mortality and the mortality of all
54:49 LS - STEP 5: Do inner work (acknowledge trauma; embrace all feelings)
56:05 AL - STEP 6: Develop awareness of brain patterns and perceptions
57:02 AL and LS - STEP 7: Practice gratitude (finding beauty and meaning)
59:19 AL and LS - STEP 8: Take breaks and rest
01:00:13 AL - STEP 9: Show up
01:00:46 AL - STEP 10: Reinvest into meaninful efforts
01:02:06 LS and AL - Overall on what happens in the 10 meetings, small groups
Full POST-DOOM playlist on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcAlqMeyeaW91q0fUuOWHKEaGTCL41ItE
"Good Grief Network" - goodgriefnetwork.org
Co-founders of the "Good Grief Network" converse with host Michael Dowd in the Post-doom conversation series. Timecoded table of contents:
00:10 Title - "Good Grief" - goodgriefnetwork.org
00:14 Preview (Aimee Lewis-Reau; AL) - intro to Good Grief Network
00:53 Host Michael Dowd (MD)
01:24 LaUra Schmidt (LS) - Intro to Good Grief Network, peer-to-peer
01:54 LS - journey of awareness into eco- and climate-grief
03:59 LS - 10 steps grief origin during Terry Tempest Williams' class
04:52 Image lists the 10 Steps, while LS introduces it
05:25 LS and MD - The last step to be added was honoring death
06:22 AL - began in human rights activism; disconnection is the root problem
07:05 MD - human supremacy underlies white supremacy, all supremacies
07:21 AL - path as a writer; importance of poetry, just sit with hard emotions
08:29 AL - a lot of depression in her 20s, so finding meaning is crucial
08:56 MD - Q: your history in finding each other and collaborating?
09:17 LS - story of meeting in college; best friends for 9 years
10:37 AL - story of moving beyond friendship to love relationship
11:35 MD - the gift of having love relationship also be your legacy work
12:34 MD - Q: What terms do you prefer in "post-doom" identifiers
12:55 LS - Climate change is a symptom of root problem of disconnection
14:28 MD - his story away from techno-optimism 2012; Catton's Overshoot
15:42 MD - language of disconnection objectifies the biosphere
16:53 LS - problem of reducing real beings and dynamics to words, symbols
17:18 MD - gives examples of post-doom terminologies
18:02 AL - preferred word is "collapse" (collapse of all kinds, not specific)
19:31 MD - this series inspired by D. Jamail, B. Cecil, J. Bendell, C. Ingram
20:30 MD - death of meaning, worldviews, secular religion of perpetual progress
21:16 MD - Q: Each tell your journey in more depth
22:18 AL - grew up in American Dream family; but false sense of security
23:15 AL - turning point = writing retreat living with retired Catholic nuns
24:26 LS - troubled childhood, loss, deaths; never fit into the main paradigm
26:27 MD - Q: asks LS whether 12-step recovery work in her experience
26:46 LS - crucial experience in Al-Anon; Adult Children of Alcoholics
29:07 MD - Q: is big picture, deep time, epic of evolution helpful?
29:29 AL - childhood sorrow when told Sun would die; now helps fully live
30:30 MD - Joel Primack - interpret we are stardust or nuclear waste of stars
31:12 LS - contemplating biodiversity engenders humility; offers beauty
32:53 MD - Q: how do you see the past? "if-only's" or sense of inevitable?
33:38 LS - used to think industrial revolution or storing food; now deep biology
35:45 AL - ability to create tools put us on this path; beyond blame
36:40 AL - what matters now is to offer new worldviews as existing crumble
37:13 MD - how we measure wealth is crucial; security in relationships not things
37:34 LS - humanity in a rite of passage; crucial to learn of indigenous cultures
39:16 MD - human centeredness is downfall; Q: impermanence and death?
40:31 LS - describes STEP 4: honoring mortality; dealing with death anxiety
42:46 MD - death anxiety is western culture; indigenous continuity with time
43:45 LS - Roy Scranton military experience: "I'm dead already" creates calm
44:30 AL - story of realizing that original 9 grief steps missing topic of death
45:08 LS - deep depression offers focus on death as a teacher
46:09 MD - Q: What is "the gift" on the other side of the post-doom doorway?
46:34 AL - Finding the gift/healing is central to the 10-step good grief process
48:28 - Remainder of the video is WALKING THROUGH THE TEN STEPS
49:44 LS - STEP 1: Accept the severity of the predicament
50:35 LS and AL - STEP 2: Acknowledge I am part of the problem and solution
53:07 LS - STEP 3: Practice sitting with uncertainty; let go of expected outcome
53:53 LS - STEP 4: Honor my own mortality and the mortality of all
54:49 LS - STEP 5: Do inner work (acknowledge trauma; embrace all feelings)
56:05 AL - STEP 6: Develop awareness of brain patterns and perceptions
57:02 AL and LS - STEP 7: Practice gratitude (finding beauty and meaning)
59:19 AL and LS - STEP 8: Take breaks and rest
01:00:13 AL - STEP 9: Show up
01:00:46 AL - STEP 10: Reinvest into meaninful efforts
01:02:06 LS and AL - Overall on what happens in the 10 meetings, small groups
Full POST-DOOM playlist on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcAlqMeyeaW91q0fUuOWHKEaGTCL41ItE
"Good Grief Network" - goodgriefnetwork.org
