Fostering collective climate action and leadership : Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion
(2023) In iScience 26(3).- Abstract
Recent research suggests that mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion relate to inner transformative qualities/capacities and intermediary factors that can support increased pro-environmental behavior and attitudes across individual, collective, organizational, and system levels. However, current insights focus on the individual level, are restricted to certain sustainability fields, and wider experimental evidence is scarce and contradictory. Our pilot study addresses this gap and tests the aforementioned proposition in the context of an intervention: an EU Climate Leadership Program for high-level decision-makers. The intervention was found to have significant effects on transformative qualities/capacities, intermediary factors,... (More)
Recent research suggests that mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion relate to inner transformative qualities/capacities and intermediary factors that can support increased pro-environmental behavior and attitudes across individual, collective, organizational, and system levels. However, current insights focus on the individual level, are restricted to certain sustainability fields, and wider experimental evidence is scarce and contradictory. Our pilot study addresses this gap and tests the aforementioned proposition in the context of an intervention: an EU Climate Leadership Program for high-level decision-makers. The intervention was found to have significant effects on transformative qualities/capacities, intermediary factors, and pro-environmental behaviors and engagement across all levels. The picture is, however, more complex for pro-environmental attitudes. With due limitations (e.g., small sample size), this preliminary evidence confirms the feasibility and potential of mindfulness- and compassion-based interventions to foster inner-outer transformation for sustainability and climate action. Aspects that should be taken into account in larger confirmatory trials are discussed.
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- author
- Ramstetter, Lena ; Rupprecht, Silke ; Mundaca, Luis LU ; Osika, Walter ; Stenfors, Cecilia U.D. ; Klackl, Johannes and Wamsler, Christine LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-03-17
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Global change, Interdisciplinary application studies, Nature conservation, Psychology
- in
- iScience
- volume
- 26
- issue
- 3
- article number
- 106191
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- pmid:36994186
- scopus:85150039222
- ISSN
- 2589-0042
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106191
- project
- Agents of Change - Mind, cognitive bias and decision-making in a context of social and climate change
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- a219153d-c383-4c03-afca-0fffdc3699d7
- date added to LUP
- 2023-03-24 08:46:07
- date last changed
- 2024-09-06 12:43:05
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