Fostering sustainable wellbeing via socially conscious ecosystems: an interventional framework

• Autores: Debjani Roy
• Localización: Socioecos 2024. Conference Proceedings June 6-7, 2024: climate change, sustainability and socio-ecological practices / Benjamín Tejerina Montaña (ed. lit.), Cristina Miranda de Almeida De Barros (ed. lit.), Clara Acuña Rodríguez (ed. lit.), 2024, ISBN 978-84-9082-680-5, págs. 686-698
• Idioma: español
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  • As humans, we often treat ourselves and our psyches as objects to be manipulated. In doing so, we miss the importance of inner lives and start relying on the “magic bullets” of behaviour change mechanisms having quick-fix solutions. The past 30 years have seen a drastic change in the way society exists. This change is not just in gadgets but in our nature of perceiving things. The velocity with which the world around us is shifting perspective, there is an urgent need to step back and consciously evaluate the choices and preferences that are moulding our behaviour patterns. Recent years have seen the emergence of focus on the social evolution of consciousness, where consciousness refers to an individual’s inner life, including their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, motivations, and spiritual experiences. Understanding consciousness and its different aspects that reflect societal paradigms becomes pertinent in every context that deals with sustainable wellbeing.

    The paper proposes an interventional framework to build sustainable ecosystems that facilitate holistic wellbeing through social consciousness.

    The proposed interventional framework for behavior changes combines theories and concepts of social consciousness, focusing on reflexive and participatory consciousness. It further integrating with transtheoretical model, risk perception and nudge. These concepts are unified into an onion framework, where the core components are participatory and reflexive consciousness. Participatory consciousness is the sense of aliveness and belonging to the world, where reality is experienced as animate and organic.

    Reflexive consciousness allows for objective understanding enhancing our ability to take control of our environment. In the proposed intervention suggests that conscious awareness of immediate environment, identifying the influencers of thoughts process and evaluating them rationally could lead an individual through the stages of change. This further integrated with nudge, and risk perception would help an individual to build consciousness, by sifting through the various stages of change.

    The proposed framework is based on the results of the quantitative survey study with 696 women and interviews with 30 women between the age of 26-65 across various geographical locations in India. The objective of the study was to understand the knowledge of female participants towards their reproductive health and well-being, and the influence of consciousness towards taking self-agency of their well-being. The findings of the data indicated the lack of awareness due to sociocultural influences, lack of self-agency and vision of future implications on health.

    The framework emerged from indicators identified from the results of the analysed data.

    The components of the framework are grounded on developing a mechanism for wellbeing towards sustainable health. It becomes applicable in the larger context of any sustainable behavior change, as holistic wellbeing embraces the notion of long-term and multilevel participation of stakeholders’ engagement which can work as a sustainable model towards wellness within any ecosystem. This approach not only reflects upon collective wellbeing but also focuses on individual consciousness. The framework is thus an attempt to build an ecosystem towards sustainable wellbeing based on social consciousness.