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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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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 |
author_facet | 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ramstetter, Lena Rupprecht, Silke Mundaca, Luis Osika, Walter Stenfors, Cecilia U.D. Klackl, Johannes Wamsler, Christine Fostering collective climate action and leadership: Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion |
title | Fostering collective climate action and leadership: Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion |
title_full | Fostering collective climate action and leadership: Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion |
title_fullStr | Fostering collective climate action and leadership: Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion |
title_full_unstemmed | Fostering collective climate action and leadership: Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion |
title_short | Fostering collective climate action and leadership: Insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion |
title_sort | fostering collective climate action and leadership: insights from a pilot experiment involving mindfulness and compassion |
topic | Article |
url | 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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