Overview

Creating a new mindset.

Our Mission is to enable leaders, organizations, and advocates to become effective guides for positive planetary transformation through the power of psychology and social science.  

Begin your journey with Project InsideOut by watching our video introduction and taking a self-assessment.

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What to expect

WHAT KIND OF CHANGEMAKER ARE YOU?

Start on the journey by seeing what kind of changemaker you are.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Explore the Guiding Principles that define the basis of our research and practical experience.

THE THREE As

Explore three key dimensions of engaging with our changing world: Anxiety, Ambivalence, and Aspiration.

APPLY OUR PRINCIPLES IN ACTION

From our Quadrants of Engagement to our stories from the field, see how our partners use the Guiding Principles.

RESOURCES, TOOLS & VIDEO

Visit the Tools section for a preview of all the components you can leverage to meet your needs.

Our Vision

Our Vision is a diverse and global community of changemakers working to guide individuals, organizations, and governments toward regenerative planetary action.

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frequently asked questions

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Yes! BUT! the material is offered to be used freely only for non-commercial purposes. We also ask that you direct people to the website for accessing our materials, and not share out directly. This protects our work. Please refer to the privacy policy and terms of use.

We have launched this Hub with an invitation for the climate campaigning community to self-assess our theories of change and to shift our mind sets and skill sets toward Guiding. This is less of a methodology as a set of robust, flexible and powerful Guiding Principles. Within each Guiding Principle are applications for your work, whether it informs how you understand your stakeholders and members, or designing your entire engagement strategy. Our hope is that this is taken as a holistic approach, and you experiment and practice with each other and colleagues.

We get asked that question often. The answer is no. While PIO draws strongly on the best practices in clinical psychological research, this is not all about feelings. This is about addressing the complex and messy experiential dimensions of engaging with climate change and how we, as a human society, will change. These are cognitive, emotional and behavioral dimensions, which as our Quadrant illustrates, are integrated and must be joined up. Our work is about meeting people where they are, engaging everyone as partners and stakeholders in this work, and bringing a high level of “emotional intelligence” to what we do. We also recognize the highly varied and diverse lived experiences, perspectives, and conditions across human communities and populations. We are grounded in the respect and belief that there is no “right way” to engage with these issues across culture and societal contexts. That said, based on our extensive experience and research, we assert acknowledging and addressing our feelings is a vital and often missing piece of our work.

Absolutely yes. This work is about how we show up. Showing up can be via your social channels, your strategies, how you convene and design your events, how your leadership communicates, and your messaging approach. This is also about leveraging the power of smaller group interactions, which may appear to pose issues of scale. However, humans convene in small groups as a central way of living and working. We invite you to think big and bold about applications.

Yes! The approach’s Guiding Principles were created to be applicable to most of the difficult issues we are facing today. While we focus on sustainable lifestyle behavior changes, from air travel to meat consumption to plastics, this work can and has been applied successfully to charged and complex topics, such as climate justice, inclusion and equity, and engaging board members on strategy. The basic elements of our work and the Guiding Principles are agnostic when it comes to the specific issue orientation.

An awesome team of designers, non-profit professionals, psychologists, researchers, communication experts and more. Learn more about PIO here.

Come back to this work often. Transformational change takes time. Journeys are all about the process. Each time you revisit this work you’ll find more to use.