Responding to Climate Crisis Requires ‘With-ness’ not ‘About-ness’ Thinking: Four Practices That Have Fostered Personal Shifts-in-Consciousness

Abstract

This article considers my attempts to build capacity for holding together the bleak facts of our emerging climate crisis with hopeful-anyway responses linked to the following four personal practices: i) expanding what it means to ‘know with others’; ii) accepting the need to mourn; iii) respecting the power of artful expression; and iv) recalibrating our practices of hope.