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Maybe I'm pragmatic
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Audience Ikigai for Greenpeace International cc-by WAO
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Perhaps I suffer from the sin of pride because I'm feeling quite taken with my own and that of my colleagues work this week. WAO did some stuff for one of our Greenpeace projects that I think is absolutely stellar. We applied the idea of an Ikigai and exploded our big brains all over audience and narrative and communicative bits. I'm not sure anyone else understands half this stuff, but I feel like we just invented something super useful. We also shared a deck for best practices for communicating with Greenpeace International's audience, and the research behind it is the only reason it can look so tight and simple.
Then I've been writing a paper with a contemporary (Heather) and we finished our full draft this week. Again, I'm proud. I can't wait until it's designed, typeset, blah blah. Heather has spent the last years working inside of the International Red Cross Red Shield, and we're deep into the realities of global NGOs. In our meetings over the last weeks, Heather and I have, naturally, spoken about the humanitarian crisis that is a war in Ukraine. One of the things we talked about this week was our habit of donating to smaller NGOs, in addition to those who have the infrastructure to get shit done. In addition to Habitats for Humanity, Doctors without Borders and a couple of German-based NGOs and NGOs on the borders and in Kiev, this week I donated to Artists at Risk, a non-profit that helps artists get out of bad situations.
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Maybe I'm suspended in space
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When I first started at Greenpeace International, one of the programs I was asked to design was an engagement program for former Greenpeace staff. I had loads of ideas and was put in touch with Greenpeace alumni with some unbelievable histories. I talked to some of the people who founded Greenpeace. I interviewed titans of environmentalism and set to work designing a program for them. The program would, of course, never be fully implemented. Community building is a full time job, you see and there wasn't anyone to take over such an initiative. At the time, I created an email list and invited people who had at some point been employed by Greenpeace. This email group continues to provide an irregular jolt of hope.
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This week, a professor from the Environmental Science Graduate Program at Oklahoma State University introduced himself and shared a link to his small non-profit. This happens in this group quite often. People share that they're still, 30 or 40 years later, working on behalf of our planet. They are real, the people who care. And it is good, and it gives me hope. There was also a page of campfire recipes, which made me happy because last year I bought a cast iron pot and used it while camping all over Sweden.
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To be frank, the roller coaster keeps throwing my stomach out, and I am actively reminding myself (and you) that there is more good in the world than bad. It's only our negativity bias that makes us think otherwise.
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Maybe I need help?
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I need a weekend, actually. I used my brain a lot this week. How are you? What are you doing? Are you on the roller coaster too?
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