Psychology of Activism: A Mirrored Path of Changemaking

Activism psychology, Climate Psychology1 Comment

Activism is a psychological process we engage in, one which is like a mirror bringing us back in touch with the essence of ourselves, while simultaneously connecting us with the essence of what life is. There are personal, collective, and transpersonal aspects to activism that don’t allow us to only “fix problems out there”, but rather that offer us healing within as we engage our creative agency in outer changemaking. Each of us is unique as an activist, yet each of us is connected in a Collective Activism, and all facets inform and transform each other. In this article, Jennifer Harvey Sallin explores the psychology of activism and the multiply transformative path of changemaking. 

Narcissism and the World

Climate Psychology, degrowth, Gifted Therapy, Giftedness, Healing, Narcissism1 Comment

At the core of structural personality disordering is a rigid coping strategy which was very functional for restrictive developmental environments, but which later in life causes all kinds of trouble for the person in contexts which don’t require that rigid form of coping. We all know narcissism from our own healthy narcissistic development as children, but we also know its more toxic forms from cultural/collective narcissism, and from any of the unhealed narcissistic wounds that remain alive in us as individuals, in our own relationship to ourselves and in our relationship to others and the world. Healing narcissistic wounds is available for many of us, and our individual healing contributes to profound systems change, as intergenerational, cultural and collective narcissistic wounds are crying out to be tended to and repaired. This article explores all this and gives resources for further discovery and recovery.