Transforming Climate Activism
Christiana Figueres shares the transformative power of a retreat for climate activists, where they learn to manage their emotions and act from a deeper sense. She recounts the moving experience of a climate activist who attended the retreat after throwing herself off stage, and how the young people emerged transformed and recommitted to working on climate change with love and joy.In this clip
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Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution
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I would like to find some research on how hope is more sustainable than anger for people attempting to address the environmental and climate crisis
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Why do people instinctively seek hope when confronted with despair from existential threats like climate change, as discussed in episode #246: Healing the Political Divide with Marianne Williamson and the clip Urgency and Awakening?