{"id":3502948,"date":"2024-08-27T01:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T01:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3502948"},"modified":"2024-09-27T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T22:11:04","slug":"live-event-why-wont-anyone-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2024-08-27\/live-event-why-wont-anyone-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Won\u2019t Anyone Listen? Elizabeth Sawin on How to Talk about the Polycrisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find people changing the subject when you speak up about climate change? Have you ever torpedoed the mood of a get-together just by mentioning an environmental problem? Well, you&#8217;re in good company. Could it be that we\u2014well-intentioned environmentalists\u2014should be doing something different?<\/p><p>Years ago, <strong>Dr. Elizabeth Sawin<\/strong>, founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multisolving.org\/\">Multisolving Institute<\/a>, realized that when she talked with people about our sustainability crises, she was effectively \u201cbumming people out.\u201d As a systems thinker (trained by the esteemed Donella Meadows) she knew she had to try something different to make a better case for environmental and social action.<\/p><p><strong>If you missed our conversation with Dr. Sawin on September 26, 2024, we invite you to watch the recording.<\/strong> You can access the recorded, 75-minute event, with Dr. Sawin when you make a donation below. <span style=\"font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span>In this webinar, Dr. Sawin shares how she turned her focus to visioning and \u201cmultisolving\u201d to communicate more effectively and develop more inspiring projects. <\/p><div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-24aac100\">\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-6d92b15a gb-button-text\" href=\"#register-donation\"><strong>Receive the recording link with a DONATION<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/div><div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><p>We\u2019ll also share a <strong>30%<\/strong> discount code for Dr. Sawin\u2019s new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/55316\/9781642833775\"><strong>Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World<\/strong><\/a>, due to ship in late November 2024, when we send you the link to the event recording.<\/p><div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b9a5b812 gb-headline-text\"><strong>Purpose<\/strong><\/h2><p>Attendees of this special Resilience+ event will have an opportunity to:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Learn how to speak effectively and engage others in conversations about social and environmental problems.<\/li>\n\n<li>Preview a new online tool (FLOWER) designed to develop multisolving projects with collaborators in your community.<\/li>\n\n<li>Hear stories about projects that address climate change while also improving health, wellbeing, equity, and economic vitality.<\/li>\n\n<li>Ask Beth questions about her work on systems thinking, environmental visioning, and multisolving.<\/li><\/ul><div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-222ab829 gb-headline-text\"><strong>About Dr. Sawin<\/strong><\/h2><div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-6becd12a\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-8f78d621\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-8f78d621\">\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-5be52f0a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"476\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-5be52f0a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Beth-sawin-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Beth sawin 4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Beth-sawin-4.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Beth-sawin-4-215x200.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-8907edb0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-8907edb0\">\n<p><strong>Dr. Elizabeth Sawin<\/strong> is Founder and Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multisolving.org\/\">Multisolving Institute<\/a> and an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health, well-being, equity, and economic vitality. She developed the idea of &#8216;multisolving&#8217; to help people see and create conditions for such win-win-win solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-3f247e3f gb-headline-text\" id=\"register-donation\">Donate to get the recording<\/h2><p><em>We will email you a link to a recording of the event as soon as it\u2019s available.<\/em><\/p><div id=\"CnP_inlineform\"><\/div>\n<script class=\"CnP_formloader\" src=\"https:\/\/resources.connect.clickandpledge.com\/Library\/iframe-1.0.0.min.js?638600206633292500\" data-guid=\"b9f4e6e3-1c6e-4bd8-a610-e3c41f758e5e\" data-title=\"Resilience Plus Beth Sawin\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this live, online event, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin (Multisolving Institute) shares how she learned to stop bumming people out about climate change and communicate effectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128248,"featured_media":3502949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252022,79718,252007,79720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-_res-event","category-environment","category-resilience-plus","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503672,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502948\/revisions\/3503672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3502949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}