Rescogita

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦?

🌳Maybe this is the most existential question today, concerning the reason why even though we understand how serious the ecological and social crises are, we fail at kickstarting the necessary changes. The answer to thos question can be cound in a complex part of our brain, where emotions, instincts and imagination give direction to our choices; much more than logic.

🟢Neurosciences show us how the brain reacts to immediate risks, but reacts with less urgency to distant dangers. Our mind is often seeking security in the now, preferring reassuring visions, and therefore, tends to avoid all that can generate discomfort. When the challenges become bigger then the nervous systems enters in a stasis mode and waits, following ancestral evolutionary schemes typical of our species.

🟢Psychology goes even deeper, Freud described Eros and Thanatos as two internal dynamics that characterise human life. On the one hand Eros feeds creativity, relationships, future desires; on the other hand Thanatos brings calmess, repetition and seeking relief from tensions. This dynaic stongly influences our capacity to iagine the necessary changes and transformation, and making them sustainable over time.

🟢An ecological education welcomes these compexities and can propose pathways that communicate to the body, to imagination and to the emotions, besides the rational mind. As a matter of fact, experiences in nature, the bodily practices and symbolic narratives strengthen the Eros, fostering us to rediscover vitality, belonging and faith, transforming fear into creative energy.

🟢This way we can bring to live a learning that supports the Life Instinct, Eros, and opens up the space for authentic actions, capable of renewing both us and the world we live in. This is an encouter between awareness and desire, between imagination and presence, and can support the dawn of real change. 💚

Lorenzo Nava ,

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

🌳Humans developed a strong neurological addiction to immediate gratification. In a present day marked by uncertainties and perceived dangers, the body activates stress responses, connected to adrenaline and cortisol, and to find balances seeks quick pleasures through dopamine and endorphines. This explains why when facing fear we see within us an immediate need of comfort, distraction and compensation.

🟢At the same time, many educational approaches aim at extreme protective measures of children and youth, reducing the exposure to risk, quite rightly so I would add. This is a choice that is born out of the desire for security, and has deep impacts on how the nervous system learns to manage uncertainty. When danger is completely avoided, then we miss the possibility of getting acquanted to risk, on the other hand taking risks, going through that, helps develop personal strategies to face dangers and overcome them in life.

🟢A possible ecological pedagogy proposes a different approach, one that is capable of accompanying people through proportionate yet meaningful risks. Offering guided challenges, contact with the natural world, and real responsibilities, then it becomes possible to recognise one's own internal resources, tolerate frustration, and give new meanings to failure, that becomes information and growth.

🟢In this pathway discomfort is part of the transformative journey, fostering self-regulation and omeostasis. Learning becomes a process that strengthens patiens, resilience and faith in oneself, essential qualities to live in in a complex and ever-transforming world.

🟢To educate ourselves in conscious risk-taking means to prepare people capable of acting with responsibility and to build more balanced relationships with the Self and Earth. 💚

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☘The 21st Century is showing us the collapse of the great idelogies that marked our identities and made sense of our struggles. For many generations they offered us a sense of belonging and meaning. Once gone, many of us started feeling a voicd, leaving us disoriented, losing sense and meaning. Of course, because searching for belonging is part of our huan nature, and when the old milestones disappear, it is inevitable that new ones emerge.

🟢Precisely in the void we can find a place where many conspiracy theories found their home, such as environmental negationism. Their success is rooted in offering simple explanations, simple narratives that offer a strong sense of identity, necessary in today's complex world. In parallel, the digital age and its social media transformed sense of belonging, paraxodically, increasingly individualistic, built on personal narratives, algorythmic confirmations and fragmented communities, often based less and less on shared responsibilities. In this scenarios conspiracies offer us a sense of belonging, they can make people feel part of a group that believes that they can see the truth beyond dominant narratives.

🟢Now comes the paradox; the environmental crisis is the greatest collective challenge of our times, and it requires coordinated and shared actions, but this is often minimised if not rejected, but why? Maybe this is too big to face alone? or do we miss and easily-identifiable enemy? or maybe because we question the identity that started to be rooted in consumerism and limitless growth.

🟢An alternative to this is the rediscovery of the affiliation between humans and nature; recogniting ourselves as part of the ecosystems, this could offer us a shared identity basis that overcomes political and ideological divisions. Even if this could encouter cultural resistances, since oftentimes the relations with nature are still very much associated to romantic stereotypes.

🟢The solution is the development of strong empirical roots; facts, and natural sciences show us clearly that we humans are an active part of the ecosystems; anthropology and history remind us that for the majority of the existence of our species we were affiliated with the natural world. This can be easily demonstrated through the stimulation of simple and concrete experiences of contact with natural environments, the observation of seasonal cycles, as a starting point to start making affiliation more accessible and tangible.

🟢The challenge is to build an offer for a renewed sense of belonging and participation, that is both open and inclusive, and can grow through experience, shared responsibilities and direct involvement; transforming ecology into a shared territory where we can imagine the future; transforming our relationship with the world a collective story, well-rooted in reality and open to change. 💚

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Lorenzo Nava

💚In today's world there is a widespread attitude of waiting, as if the great crises of our age will be solved by someone else. Especially when it comes to the climate crisis, oftentimes showed as a far too complex problem, very technical, hard to fully understand; this, which brings a lot of people to fully handover responsibilities to scientists and politicians, since the problem appears to be quite distant from our daily life, and individual action seem pointless.

🟢Then fear becomes our main drive, and this is the root of passiveness, as it brings to seek protection and safety, and blocks participation. But then we don't see the solutions coming, frustration and impotence grow hand in hand, and gradually become anger and resentment towards the institutions and perceived elites. We can actually observe how negationism becomes a destructive yet functional strategy, helping many to recover a sense of control, even if it is a mere illusion.

🟢If we want to find the roots of these mechanisms we can find them in many educational models that use fear as a pedagogical group; fear of bad marks, fear of judgement, fear of failure, fear of the future; a fear that pushes students to conformity and repetition, at the price of curiosity and natural desire of knowledge. If we apply this type of pedagogy to today's climate crisis, we can understand the present of catastrophic narratives and how they paralyse us instead of activating.

🟢When fear becomes the dominant sensation, then it generates forms of violence, especially against ourselves, shaped like self-criticism, discouragement, as well as towards others in the forms of conflict and polarisation, and towards nature, attempting to control and dominate. This is a vicious circle that negatively influences all the relations, increasing individual and collective suffering.

🟢Educational change is possible, if we mobilise other emotional forces, such as curiosity, desire, marvel, as stimuli to open up new, constructive learning spaces, that support individual and group responsibility, and that helps us understand that even small concrete actions have value, and participation does generate change.

🟢The true challenge today is to community how serious the situation is without generating paralysing instincts, cultivating an active hope rooted on tangible possibilities, shared responsibilities and gradual pathways. Then we will be able to move on from waiting to be saved, to accepting responsibilities and to contiribute. Transforming crisis into a fertile territory of learning and transformation. ☘


Lorenzo Nava

💚 Yes another extraordinary training was delivers at the Parco del a where 22 international social workers, educators and activists took part in the training GIAN - Green Initiatives Anchoring Nature, supporte by the through the programme. Lorenzo Nava together with the Young Effect Association Magenta and dear friends Uranía Rapti , Tiziano Tommasini and Galya Karpenko.

🟢𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝟕-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬, 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬:

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𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟓 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲, 𝐂𝐳𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜, 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐚, 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚, 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚, 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥, 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝. 💚

🟢The content of the book apply to individuals as much as to the organisation and growth of our .

Thank you to all the wonderful people who inspired and participated in this journey!

🌳The - lifestyles inspired by the living organisms - is finally out.

🟢 A text rooted in , , aiming at rediscovering how we already are to and how strengthening our can improve our lives. ✅

🟢 Because to leave behind the and make the first steps into the much needed Ecocene, 1st of all we need to work on ourselves and our mindsets. ✅

This is a book by Lorenzo Nava summarising two decades of work as trainer and coach, and in the creation of ecopsychology-inspired professions and support figures.

👉 The book can be found on this link https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0GT2JR9XY

Thank you!

🌳 There is a new profession on the horizon - Social Coaching; adopting professional personal support approaches with 2 aims; 1. How to use coaching with vulnerable and disadvantaged groups of people. 2. How to establish goals that positively impact the self, communities and the environment at large. ♻️

In this short-video series, hosted by Zeměkoule, z.s./The Globe and made by Praxis Greece you can explore and witness how social coaching can impact us, individually, socially and environmentally. From our experts Dita Palaščáková , Petra Papiernikova, Marcus Vrecer and of course Lorenzo Nava 😁

Youth in the 21st century This playlist features videos from the “21st CENTURY - Coaching Europe’s Navigation Towards Understanding and Reactivating Youth” EU project, funded by Erasm...

💚Feel4Climate è un progetto finanziato dall'Unione Europea, programma 🇪🇺Erasmus+

💚 l'obiettivo è quello di creare strumenti educativi che sia scuole che associazioni possono utilizzare per aiutare i giovani a capire meglio, ed esprimere, le proprie emozioni riguardo la crisi climatica. Miriamo a produrre metodologie, strumenti e guide per migliorare la gestione delle emozioni che nascono da questi tempi di crisi. Il sondaggio è assolutamente anonimo e ci vorranno appena 5 minuti del tuo tempo, i commenti sono opzionali. ☘️

Il progetto è realizzato dalla ONG 🇦🇹 austriaca , assieme alla rete 🇦🇹 Psychologists for Future, e in cooperazione con EDEN Centre in 🇦🇱 Albania, Oriel Association in 🇮🇹 Italia, e Friends of the Earth a 🇲🇹 Malta. Con il sostegno di Rescogita in 🇪🇪 Estonia.

Grazie mille per tuo tempo e aiuto! 🤓

ITA - Feel4Climate Sondaggio 2025

💚Wishing us all a regenerative and sustainable new year ! to the whole human dna more-than-human world! 🌍

𝓟𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓯𝓾𝓵 2026 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓸𝓷𝓮!

💚Wish you all a very good rest during this festive season, with peaceful, warm and light times. 🤗

🟢Sustainable Psychology ‼️

🟢How can we live sustaianbly on earth ❓ how can we create sustainable lives and relationships ⁉️

✅By applying balance, reciprocity, interdependence, dynamically with ourselves and all the surrounds us. 🥹