Consensus Process, Town Hall, and Scope Issue

[ChristinaB]

How many US agencies have a position on climate change?
What is the position?
Is there a template?
What are the recommendations?
How do I make one for my organization?

[ChristinaB]

How does the US position and consensus compare to other countries? Compare to scientific consensus?

[ChristinaB]

How does a position compare to a plan?

How is the environmental climate change related to the work environment of climate change scientists?

[ChristinaB]

GeoHealth Town Hall Proposed Title: Climate change, COVID-19 and the neuroscience of building geohealthy online workspaces of distributed work communities for science motivated humans. [open to suggestions - please edit - it's intended to include climate change, COVID-19 and mental health and scale from individuals to work and global impacts. we can destigmatize mental health once people are in the room, but this title may get more people in the room and is transparent that are inviting mental health experts who are neurobiologists and/or PhD educators as speakers]

Proposed Questionsfor Invited Speakers, Community Discussion with Moderated Q & A, Interactive Work Sessions to Explore emerging tools and determine consensus on position statements while ensuring 'GeoHealth' policy alignment.

How do we normalize geohealthy* culture shifts that support learning environments, educators and researchers?  How do we address normal and trauma-informed levels of discomfort to operationalize the use of new tools and geohealth resources*?  

What can I do today to educate myself and others about integrating existing geohealth resources* into my work process?  Background on GeoHealth: Geohealthy what?

 Geohealth does have a definition and an award winning journal academic journal - GeoHealth. But what is a GeoHealth Resource? Culture? or Policy? Here we define 'Geohealth Resources' as a function, process, tool, or digital object that scales global, community, and individual resources (see also definitions above). Building a shared understanding with terms and vocabulary is just one component of a process for determining consensus on position statements, in order to build on GeoHealth Section work in progress, introduced in the article A GeoHealth Response to a Geoscience Community Climate Change Position Statement (Rehr et al 2020).

[ChristinaB]

What are we working on that could help address the psychological impacts of the pandemic on geoscientists, especially those with either small children in their charge or - at the opposite end of the spectrum - increasingly isolated and their own.