When you are challenging yourself to change, or trying to create change in the world, have you ever felt that it feels like you’re pushing? Pushing on yourself. Pushing on others. Pushing on the world?

What happens when we push?

When I-we push it can seem like there’s an equal force that comes up to face me. I call that contact and sometimes resistance.

This force can be a useful edge. If I inquire into the source of it, inevitably, I find it points to my interior—how I am perceiving myself and others. This includes how I-we-all-of-us may be understanding and making-meaning from our circumstances. We understannd and relate to climate change in some remarkably different ways.

Equal and opposite reaction

This includes how I-we-all-of-us may be understanding and making-meaning from our circumstances. We understand and relate to climate change in some remarkably different ways.

In the short video (10 mins, right/below here>) Abigail Lynam and I touch on these worldviews.

Applied worldviews

Worldviews can help us. As we change it can be confronting and a map of where we are going helps!

We have, with such a map, some handrails that help us all integrate other dimensions of the human experience. For example in conversations with friends families and people holding quite different views who may be less engaged in change work.

The video is additionally an introduction to the Transformative Climate Advocacy program. The program points at the intersection or interface of your-my-our interior development with cultural development and systems change work.

One of the intentions with it is to work on expanding understanding of culture and psychology to support change work.

We’ll be engaging with learning from people’s work and research around these territories, as well as how these are being applied to create change in communities.

Details about the Transformative Climate Advocacy program are below.