Walking Between Worlds: Holding Multiple Worldviews as a Key for Ecological Transformation

The current ecological, social, and personal crises spark the need for radical transformation to shift from one world that is mechanistic, destructive, and egocentric to another that is relational, life affirming, and embedded in the widest understandings of interconnected selves. The author employed an organic research inquiry to depict the patterns of people making this shift, identified six qualities, and found that embracing these crises provides opportunity to enlarge individual and collective perspectives in a way that aligns with larger systems of life opening one up to what has been called the multicultural self, the ecological self, or the self-transforming self. These concepts demonstrate that, when one can navigate more than one worldview, one is more resilient and responsive