Stop Catching Feelings!

About this episode

Dante Poole discusses the impact of emotional contagion and collective fatigue on our interactions and how to create healthier emotional climates.

Something’s happening to the air between us. You can feel it—in conversations that escalate too fast, in rooms that feel tense for no clear reason, and in the fatigue we carry from just being around other people. We don’t just think independently—we feel collectively. Our emotions are contagious. And lately, a lot of us are catching feelings faster than we’re catching understanding. In this new episode of the Life Sculptors Podcast, I talk about what’s happening beneath that tension—the emotional climates that influence how we show up for each other. Drawing from community psychology and my book Developing a Durable Mind , I unpack why so many of us are experiencing collective fatigue, how emotional contagion works, and what it means to create a healthier climate in our homes, workplaces, and communities. You don’t have to control the room to change it. You just have to model what it’s missing.

People in this episode

Host: Dante Poole

Topics covered

• emotional contagion
• collective fatigue
• community psychology
• emotional climates
• healthy environments

Keywords

• emotions
• collective feelings
• tension
• community
• psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Developing a Durable Mind

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