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Fostering collective climate action and leadership: Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion

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, curre...

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Autores principales: Ramstetter, Lena, Rupprecht, Silke, Mundaca, Luis, Osika, Walter, Stenfors, Cecilia U.D., Klackl, Johannes, Wamsler, Christine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10040966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36994186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106191
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author Ramstetter, Lena
Rupprecht, Silke
Mundaca, Luis
Osika, Walter
Stenfors, Cecilia U.D.
Klackl, Johannes
Wamsler, Christine
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description 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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spelling pubmed-100409662023-03-28 Fostering collective climate action and leadership: Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion Ramstetter, Lena Rupprecht, Silke Mundaca, Luis Osika, Walter Stenfors, Cecilia U.D. Klackl, Johannes Wamsler, Christine iScience Article 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. Elsevier 2023-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10040966/ /pubmed/36994186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106191 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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