Mindful Climate Action: Health and Environmental Co-Benefits from Mindfulness-Based Behavioral Training

Barrett, Bruce; Grabow, Maggie; Middlecamp, Catherine Hurt; Mooney, Margaret; Checovich, Mary; Converse, Alexander K.; Gillespie, Bob; Yates, Julia

doi:10.3390/su8101040

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“…With the explicit goal to promote pro-environmental behaviors, MBPs are, with a few exceptions, seldom applied and examined (Barrett et al 2016;Geiger et al 2019). Also, some successful trainings were developed to foster healthy eating behavior, indicating connections between mindfulness and changes in food consumption behavior (Kristeller et al 2014).…”

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Facets of Mindfulness in Stages of Behavior Change Toward Organic Food Consumption

Richter

Hunecke

2020

Mindfulness

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Objectives The preference of organically grown foods can potentially decrease greenhouse gas emissions, which are related to climate change. Recent empirical studies suggest associations between dispositional mindfulness and self-reported pro-environmental behavior. In order to identify the potential and mechanisms of mindfulness with regard to pro-environmental behaviors, it is necessary to consider theories of action. Methods The present study examines the relationship between five facets of self-attributed mindfulness and organic food consumption considering a stage model of behavior change that includes different types of intentions and stage-specific predictors adapted from the theory of planned behavior and the norm-activation model. A cross-sectional online study was conducted with a sample of 560 participants. The mean age of the participants was 30 (SD = 10.5) years, and the sample consisted largely of females (76%). A minority reported regular meditation practice (8%). Results The multivariate analyses showed a significant relationship between observing and goal intention (β = .317, p < .000) as well as the indirect effects of observing on goal intention that is mediated by personal norms and attitude. Further, people in the postaction stage have higher levels of observing than those in the predecision stage (p = .003, d = .43). Overall, the mindfulness facets contribute low to the explained variance of the stage model variables. Conclusion Consistent across the analyses, the mindfulness facet of observing was proved to be a particularly relevant predictor of organic food consumption-related variables. The investigation of the observing facet could be beneficial to understand associated mechanisms and starting points to promote pro-environmental behavior through mindfulness.

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Facets of Mindfulness in Stages of Behavior Change Toward Organic Food Consumption

Richter

Hunecke

2020

Mindfulness

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“…Third, only two specific consumption areas (food and clothing) were investigated. Future research should also cover other consumption areas relevant for adolescents (e.g., electronic entertainment) or design more comprehensive programs (as an example, see the project of "Mindful Climate Action" by Barrett et al [42]). Fourth, the results of the present study cannot be reliably attributed to the consumption-focused MBI having used a waitlist control group design.…”

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“…First attempts have been made to infuse sustainability into the design of mindfulness-based formats, but their implementation so far remains confined to the higher education system [42,43]. Given the promising potential of mindfulness to promote SC, its proven feasibility in the school context, and the fact that adolescents represent a crucial target group for ESC, it is surprising that, to date, no study has investigated the effects of a school-embedded MBI focused on SCB in adolescents.…”

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Mindfulness Training at School: A Way to Engage Adolescents with Sustainable Consumption?

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A central challenge in research on education for sustainable consumption (ESC) is to develop new approaches to engage adolescents with sustainable consumption (SC) in a way that addresses not only the cognitive but also the socio-emotional and behavioral levels. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) that foster awareness, (self-)reflection, and ethical values could potentially leverage learning processes in ESC. The present study was the first one to investigate the potential effects of a consumption-specific MBI on sustainable consumption behavior (SCB) in the areas of nutrition and clothing. The eight-week long intervention was carried out with 15-year old adolescents (N = 85) directly at school. A randomized pre-post waitlist control group design with mixed methods was applied. The study revealed the strong effects of the adapted MBI on precursors of SCB and further effects not directly related to but potentially conducive for SCB. Actual behavioral effects were minor. Substantial inter-individual differences and inconsistencies between qualitative and quantitative results imply case-related effects that do not allow generalizable conclusions to be drawn. Nevertheless, the results of this pilot study indicate that combining mindfulness training with ESC formats appears to be a feasible and fruitful approach to engage adolescents with SC. Future practice and research should consider more diverse target groups, other consumption areas, and longer periods for interventions and their evaluation.

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“…Recent studies have argued for the efect that the practice of mindfulness could have on care for the environment [51]. Speciically, it has been suggested that improved psychological well-being, centred here and now, promotes the satisfaction of non-material needs, which impacts directly and indirectly on the adoption of sustainable behaviours.…”

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Mindfulness Meditation and the Perception of Beauty: Implications for an Ecological Well-Being

Langer¹,

Schmidt²,

Krogh³

2017

Perception of Beauty

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Meditation is a irst-person method for contemplating ourselves and the world, with more than 2500 years of history, rooted in the philosophical and contemplative traditions of the east. The present chapter aims to explore this worldview in order to demonstrate its relevance to our capacity for the appreciation of beauty. To this end, the aesthetic experience, the contemplative experience and their relationship with the practice of mindfulness are analysed. We suggest that the contemplative meditative experience bestows a state of consciousness and acceptance of life which places the practitioner in a progressive encounter with a self-concept that begins to detach from a static sense of the self and from the categories that deine it, so that it may be experienced as an ongoing mental event, removed from cultural ideals of beauty or positivity. The result of this de-identiication from the static self is a greater degree of psychological lexibility and a more genuine way of seeing the world, leading to a new perception of the self that is connected to an experience of freedom, and contributes to one's own well-being, as well as to that of others and of the environment.

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Mindful Climate Action: Health and Environmental Co-Benefits from Mindfulness-Based Behavioral Training

Cited by 55 publications

References 124 publications

Facets of Mindfulness in Stages of Behavior Change Toward Organic Food Consumption

Facets of Mindfulness in Stages of Behavior Change Toward Organic Food Consumption

Mindfulness Training at School: A Way to Engage Adolescents with Sustainable Consumption?

Mindfulness Meditation and the Perception of Beauty: Implications for an Ecological Well-Being

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