Exclusion and Violence Toward Women: An Ecopsychological Waste

Abstract

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the next 15 years. These SDGs overlie existing objectives that were not met from 2015 Millennium Development Goals. This suggests something is not working across the multitude of sustainable development programs. The inability to achieve sustainability is an ecopsychological waste based upon deeper human narratives that drive destructive practices: Gender exclusion and violence toward women are among two core drivers. An ecopsychological education aims to expose and transform deeply rooted unconscious narratives that underlie human practices, policies, and decisions about how we respond to our world in both creative and destructive ways. Key Words: Ecopsychology—Education—Depth psychology—Gender—Sustainability.