Our project's overarching goal was to cultivate awareness, develop responsible attitudes, and promote sustainable behaviors towards environmental conservation and factors influencing climate change. We designed this to be achieved through an integrativ program based on Sociodrama, Ecopsychology, Arts, and Playback Theatre, aimed at fostering a transformative change in how adults perceive and interact with nature. Primary Objectives: 1. Integrative Nature sensitisation programme development: we aimed to develop a complex and interactive program that educates and strengthens emotional connections with nature. 2. Training and empowering partner association’s staff: focusing on equipping staff members with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively implement the programme we have developed, in their communities, as stand-alone community events or integrated into their work as part of their day-to-day activities. 3. Empowering Playback Theatre Companies: specific technical development of Playback Theatre Companies to facilitate events focusing on reconnecting with nature,and enabling them to actively participate in performances and events focused on raising environmental awareness.
We have initiated this project to change the way our communities relate to nature, and to shift from a human-centred approach to recognising humanity as an integral part of the natural world. The project addresses the need for an effective response to the natural crisis, which is as much a human crisis as a natural one. As active community developers, at the level of our partner associations, there was a need to be able to react effectively to what is happening in our environment and to have a tool to do so. Knowing the effectiveness of partners Playback Theatre Companies, in raising social awareness through community events, we aimed to extend their reach to nature-related issues. By combining these community events with nature conservation and climate crisis issues, we seek to increase understanding and action towards nature through social context awareness and emotional engagement. This approach is encapsulated in our "I see, I feel, I understand, I am aware, I take responsibility and I take action" philosophy. This project represents not just an awareness campaign but a call to action, inspiring communities to recognize and act upon their role in shaping a healthier planet.