by Bill Sheate
Blog 1/2
In this first of two blogs, I’m looking at the words we use to describe emotional responses to environmental and climate change, and why it might matter what we call it. In the follow-up blog I’ll look at my own approach to treating eco-anxiety.
Eco-anxiety or Eco-distress?
There is now ample evidence for the prevalence of eco-anxiety (often among young people in particular), with vigorous debate among academics as to our understanding of the relationship between observed emotional, behavioural and cognitive responses to the impacts of climate and environmental change more generally. Discussion ensues over terminology, categorisation and taxonomy of the psychology associated with climate change and what seems often to be a significant focus on ‘grief’……. [Read more]
by Bill Sheate
This blog post brings together the four papers that were published out of Ute Thiermann’s PhD research on mindfulness and sustainability, under my supervision at Imperial College London, with access to the online papers/journals……[Read more]
by Bill Sheate
In this, the fourth paper from her PhD, Ute Thiermann and I explore qualitatively how people with experience of mindfulness meditation understand how their own relationship with the environment, sustainability and society has been influenced by their mindfulness practice.
Thiermann, U.B., Sheate, W.R. How Does Mindfulness Affect Pro-environmental Behaviors? A Qualitative Analysis of the Mechanisms of Change in a Sample of Active Practitioners. Mindfulness (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-02004-4 (Open Access)
by Bill Sheate
New publication in Frontiers in Psychology…..
A third publication (open access) has recently emerged (December 2020) from the research of my PhD student Ute Thiermann [1]:
Thiermann Ute B., Sheate William R., Vercammen Ans (2020), Practice Matters: Pro-environmental Motivations and Diet-Related Impact Vary With Meditation Experience, Frontiers in Psychology, 11 , 35-77, https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.584353, DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.584353 [Read more]
