Keyword: social change

The Wellness Syndrome: The Tragic Shift from Social Change to Individual Transformation

Picture: Bernard Chiro Video Feeling ashamed for not being happier? On an endless quest to transform yourself? Does our collective fixation with psychological and physical health actually verge on the pathological? Leading academics Carl Cederström, André Spicer and Renata Salecl gather to explore how wellness has become an unhealthy obsession in western societies, and how living ‘well’ has become synonymous with being morally good. They argue that visions of social change have been...

A Philosophy for the 21st Century: Expanding our Empathic Potential for Radical Social Change

Picture: As seen on RSA Animate. Video In this animated representation of his talk, philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can bring about social change by stepping outside ourselves. If the 20th century was the age of introspection, then the 21st century needs to be one of "outrospection". The ultimate art form of outrospection is empathy. Empathy is about a revolution in human relationships. We often think of empathy as happening between two people, but it can also be a collective force that...