Co-production: Exploring interactions between neurodivergence, taking climate action and maintaining eco-hope
Through our work, we’ve observed that many people involved in sustainability identify as neurodivergent, often bringing with them important skills and characteristics such as profound empathy, creativity and systems thinking. However, working in the context of climate, ecological and social emergencies takes its toll and can lead to a loss of hope and paralysis around what to do and how to do it.
We have been awarded funding by the Co-production Collective to explore this further using a co-production approach. Co-production brings together different forms of lived, living and learnt (personal and professional) knowledge, understanding, and experience, for better outcomes and mutual benefit (Co-production Collective).
Our project team includes people with lived experience of neurodivergence and anxiety, and we plan to engage a further small but diverse group of individuals along the way. With this group we will explore and better understand lived experience of neurodivergence, taking climate action and maintaining eco-hope. With this increased understanding, we aim to co-produce a creative and accessible resource to support this group in their sustainability-related work.
Through our project, we hope to provide a safe space to explore experiences and ideas, and build community, as well as co-developing ways to support neurodivergent folk working in sustainability-related fields in future. We are very excited about applying and evaluating co-production in a context where it is actively encouraged and resourced, and about the potential for learning in the context of neurodivergence!
We have been awarded funding by the Co-production Collective to explore this further using a co-production approach. Co-production brings together different forms of lived, living and learnt (personal and professional) knowledge, understanding, and experience, for better outcomes and mutual benefit (Co-production Collective).
Our project team includes people with lived experience of neurodivergence and anxiety, and we plan to engage a further small but diverse group of individuals along the way. With this group we will explore and better understand lived experience of neurodivergence, taking climate action and maintaining eco-hope. With this increased understanding, we aim to co-produce a creative and accessible resource to support this group in their sustainability-related work.
Through our project, we hope to provide a safe space to explore experiences and ideas, and build community, as well as co-developing ways to support neurodivergent folk working in sustainability-related fields in future. We are very excited about applying and evaluating co-production in a context where it is actively encouraged and resourced, and about the potential for learning in the context of neurodivergence!
