18 episodes
Carol Smaldino's The Human Climate The Human Climate
-
- Education
The human climate as I see it is the human atmosphere in which we live: the ways we solve or don’t solve, the host of problems in our midst. Emotions, I saw (as I wrote my own book The Human Climate: Facing the Divisions Inside Us and Between Us, 2018) were driving our actions and decisions. They were pushing us to extremes, and they were also often obliterating the capacity to think or care.
Carl Jung’s theory of the shadow: Emotions we hide, out of our own dread and shame, become the stuff of projection onto others, either demonizing and degrading them or putting them on pedestals. Or instead those hidden feelings could push us to explode or implode, sinking us into psychological dirt. Yet still they could render us numb and detached. The situation might well stay wretched if we can’t get a handle on the deep feelings that might just keep us divided and paralyzed to the point that we remain unable to heal the divides, or to manage the resolution to fight for social and economic justice and against climate change.
-
The Human Climate: with Guest Tony Gaskew
For the Youtube Video Episode visit: https://youtu.be/_glia5OHKIU
In this episode Carol discusses Critical Race Theory, white privilege and its costs, as well as Israel, Ukraine and cycles of violence with Tony Gaskew, Professor of Critical Race Theory at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford. -
The Human Climate: with Guest Mark Vonnegut
For the Youtube Video Episode visit: https://youtu.be/_glia5OHKIU
In this episode Carol discusses, pediatrics, mental breakdowns, and the life/fame of Kurt Vonnegut, with Mark Vonnegut, pediatrician and author of Just Like a Person Without Mental Illness Only More So, and the current The Heart of Caring. -
The Human Climate/ with Guest Niki Harré
For the Youtube version visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2i0PkG5rjjaOSrRzUotRQ
Niki Harré is professor of psychology at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand.
In this episode Carol discusses a psychology dedicated to positivity, inclusion, with New Zealand psychologist Niki Harre, author of The Infinite Game: How to Live Well Together. -
The Human Climate: with Guest Rosalind Wiseman
For the Youtube version visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2i0PkG5rjjaOSrRzUotRQ
In this episode Carol discusses the role of getting to know our history in helping to effectively advocate for living and teaching with dignity, with Rosalind Wiseman, co-founder (with Charlie Kuhns) of Cultures of Dignity, based out of Boulder, Colorado. -
The Human Climate: with Guest Mary Gordon
For the Youtube video conversation go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2i0PkG5rjjaOSrRzUotRQ
Mary Gordon
In this episode Carol discusses empathy, how it can be taught and what happens when it goes missing, with Mary Gordon, founder of Roots of Empathy in Toronto, Canada, and author of a book by the same name. -
The Human Climate with Guest Jennifer Thompson
For the Youtube video conversation go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2i0PkG5rjjaOSrRzUotRQ
Jennifer Thompson
In this episode Carol discusses the rape and false conviction as well as the pursuit of restorative justice with Jennifer Thompson, founder of Healing Justice.