Kata Nylén
Psychology for a changing world.
Psychologist, author and speaker working with climate psychology, resilience and how people and organisations respond to profound change.
About Kata
Kata Nylén is a Swedish psychologist, author and speaker. Her work sits at the intersection of climate psychology, psychological resilience, behavioural change and the human response to uncertainty.
She writes and speaks about what happens to people, individually and collectively, when the world around them changes faster than the mind expects.
The new book
Psychological resilience
Meeting adversity in an uncertain world
Five movements for meeting hardship without shutting down: listening, loving, collectivising, acting, and giving and receiving support.
Areas of work
Six connected fields that run through Kata's writing, speaking and professional practice.
Climate psychology
How the climate crisis registers psychologically, and what helps people stay engaged rather than shut down.
Psychological resilience
What actually sustains people and groups under prolonged pressure, beyond individual coping.
Behavioural change
Why knowing is not doing, and what genuinely moves behaviour at individual and organisational scale.
Climate emotions
Grief, anxiety, anger and hope as information rather than symptoms to be managed away.
Navigating uncertainty
How people lead, decide and stay functional inside systemic change they did not choose.
Organisational psychology
Senior teams under pressure, and the relationships that carry an organisation when the load rises.
Speaking
Kata speaks at conferences, universities, leadership events and public institutions on the psychology of climate, resilience, behaviour and change.
Collective work
Alongside her own practice, Kata works with collectives of psychologists focused on climate and sustainability. Their work is separate from this site and continues in its own right.