Posts in Activism
Protection or Connection? An Ecopsychology Framework for Environmental Advocacy

As emotionally motivated beings with an innate and inseverable connection with nature, if our advocacy used the ‘connection with’ narrative we would be more effective in inspiring the level of human engagement and action required for large scale social involvement and change. Ecopsychology presents an important scientific understanding and framework that captures the complex emotional management mechanisms triggered by current fear inducing, negatively framed and anthropocentric messaging.

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We need to grieve, and it'll make us better changemakers when we do

In a world that is changing, dying, collapsing and evolving as rapidly as ours is right now, the grief, the pain, the confusion or the hopelessness is immense and overwhelming. And it’s important to know that that’s ok.  But as changemakers, it is just as important to know how to deal with this and move forward without losing our footing or our hope.

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