Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach

Böhme, Jessica; Walsh, Zack; Wamsler, Christine

doi:10.1007/s11625-022-01117-y

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“…This multi-dimensional and multi-levelled view of positive psychological interventions demonstrates a person-focused approach that is informed by context-appropriate variation, selection and retention of processes that have helped to align developments in positive psychology, acceptance and commitment therapy and process-based coaching (Ciarrochi et al, 2022). This work also aligns well with recent discussions on the need to progress the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) through a focus on inner development including a focus on self, cognitive skills, caring for others and the world, collaboration and driving change (https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/framework, see also Böhme et al, 2022;Mead, Gibbs, Fisher & Kemp, 2023;Wamsler & Bristow, 2022;Woiwode et al, 2021).…”

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Theories of wellbeing, practical applications and implications for coaching

Fisher¹,

Wilkie²,

Hamill³

et al. 2023

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Wellbeing is a topic of great research interest, but also one of considerable debate. In this chapter we provide an overview of recent developments in wellbeing science. We summarise the literature around the term wellbeing, and introduce a theoretical framework – the GENIAL model – that we have developed over the last few years, bringing together often conflicting views. Following a discussion of the underpinning theory and research, we provide some practical examples of how our framework has been applied in the healthcare and education sectors and could be applied in the coaching context with a particular focus on two new tools – presented in a separate section within a tools-focused chapter – and their application. While we acknowledge that our work has been conducted within the context of clinical psychology and undergraduate teaching, we seek to highlight the overlap between developments in wellbeing science and coaching psychology throughout our chapter. Critically, we also point to emerging opportunities for coaching psychologists to support the inner development of clients that we hope will lay stronger foundations for progress on sustainable development goals.

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Theories of wellbeing, practical applications and implications for coaching

Fisher¹,

Wilkie²,

Hamill³

et al. 2023

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“…By drawing on the notion of buen vivir , we have shown that the good life is not individualistically driven but reflects and depends upon communities and the unique environmental situations in which they are embedded (Calisto Friant & Langmore, 2015; Gudynas, 2011, 2013). We have therefore expanded existing research into the understanding and practice of sustainability in rural areas by demonstrating the usefulness of a relational approach and illuminating the central role domestic animals can play in shaping postgrowth lifestyles (Bohme et al., 2022; Hodges, 1999; Houtbeckers, 2021).…”

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“…This relational paradigm enables us to embrace ways of thinking, being and acting—or a tripartite ‘ethico‐onto‐epistemology’—that do not presuppose subject/object or nature/culture binaries (Walsh et al., 2021, p. 75; see also Bohme et al., 2022). It enables us to respond to calls for more inclusive, multiactor narratives that address the integrated dimensions of environments and sustainability (Dymitrow & Stenseke, 2016; Ives et al., 2020; Walsh et al., 2021).…”

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Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

2022

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Notions of the good life are often strongly linked to rurality. Existing conceptualisations tend towards an anthropocentric and individualised approach centred on personal wealth, status and happiness. In contrast, this article reframes the good life as an interspecies endeavur, which embeds people and animals alike by recognising their interdependent relational configurations within the wider natural-social environment. Specifically, we bring insights from the concept of buen vivir to bear on research among people who live alongside their horses in rural areas of the UK. We find that horses enhance, enable and mediate people's understanding and experience of the rural good life. In contrast to popular and scholarly conceptions that emphasise privilege and leisure, the interspecies iteration that emerges is characterised by hard work, collaboration and purposeful active learning. This has profound implications in turn for our understanding and experience of sustainability, as these interspecies relations lead participants intoThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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“…Transformations in these contexts are described as processes that result in profound shifts in human and environmental relationships [279]. These shifts can be disorienting, especially when they encourage new ways of seeing and being that contrast with the dominant social paradigm (and even with some of the established sustainability discourse) [280,281].…”

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A Novel Framework for Inner-Outer Sustainability Assessment

Cooper

Gibson

2022

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Calls for systemic transformations have become prevalent throughout sustainability discourse. Increasingly, these calls point towards consciousness expanding practices and interventions, such as mindfulness, to support the development of individual understandings, skills, and capacities that are conducive to more sustainable ways of being and doing. The growing interest in leveraging inner capacities, including mindsets, worldviews, values, and beliefs for sustainability transformations emerges from concerns that conventional approaches are failing to align social and ecological systems towards long-term viability. Interest in these consciousness-driven transformations is spreading, particularly in governments and prominent organisations. Tempering this enthusiasm are concerns that untethered from moral and ethical guidelines as well as caring understanding of local and global prospects for lasting wellbeing, mindfulness programs, workshops, and interventions for inner transformation can inadvertently strengthen unsustainable systems and deepen inequities. Accordingly, this paper presents an exploratory assessment framework to increase understandings of how events focused on interventions for inner transformation align with broad sustainability requirements. Findings from application of the framework should help to elucidate how these offerings can disrupt normative ways of thinking and doing, and in turn, positively influence multi-scalar transformations. Furthermore, use of the assessment process to plan and/or evaluate inner development offerings is anticipated to help strengthen progress towards sustainability and reduce adverse trade-offs that might undermine positive systemic transformations.

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Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach

Cited by 32 publications

References 73 publications

Theories of wellbeing, practical applications and implications for coaching

Theories of wellbeing, practical applications and implications for coaching

Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

A Novel Framework for Inner-Outer Sustainability Assessment

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