Research

“… somewhere in the midst of ‘sustainability’ – a rather uninspiring word - lies an inspiring vision of transformation. But if this journey is simply a practical venture about behaviour change it will not appeal to our imaginations. We need to dig deep, to re-read our own myths as well as find inspiration from the stories of others who are outside the box of western culture, and inside the web of life”.  Mary-Jayne  Rust, Ecopsychologist

This Project draws upon many approaches, including ecopsychology and action research, to create a powerful nature-connected approach to transformative culture change and inspiring sustainable lifestyles.

The aims of the project are to create many unique and diverse stories of personal change through the blogs, generate wider interest and understanding of eco psychology and the project approaches used, research how experiences in wild nature can inspire more sustainable living and develop a replicable behaviour change programme.

An Action Researcher (Sam Harrison) will be participating in the project and the Natural Change research report (published here in May 09) could have numerous applications in the development of policy, education, arts, campaign planning, media and strategy.