Since 2015 when the UN adopted 17 global goals to transform our world, research on sustainability transformations have increasingly attract attention in its political and practical spheres, while personal sustainability transformations although recognized, are still scarcely studied. This project asks: what is needed for a transformative change of perspective to take place? In particular, the project 1) develops a conceptual model for inner transformation processes, 2) empirically investigates experiences of personal transformative change, 3) simultaneously engage in partnership for personal sustainability transformations.
The project is a collaboration between Department of Thematic Studies – unit of Environmental Change, Center for Climate Policy Research at Linköping University, Empaticus – an organisation with long experience of guiding contemplative practices and inner transformation, and the Swedish Folk High Schools.
