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Welcome to Activism Is Medicine

Activism is medicine online course.

Welcome to the Activism is Medicine on-line course. This experience is designed for seasoned or aspiring activists seeking a whole-life approach to engagement. As you’ll see, activism is far more than isolated resistance to particular circumstances or individual events; it’s fundamental to successful and effective living. Ideal for climate and ecological activists, therapists, teachers, coaches, trainers, parents, students, and anyone who’s trying to make a difference, this course is dedicated to both inner and outer forms of activism. It’ll help you live a life of relevance, meaning, and effectiveness.

Each segment is roughly 60 minutes long.

Current Presenters: Frank Forencich, Jonathan Logan, and John Hagar.

content and curriculum

  • The primacy of climate truth, and the importance of the precautionary principle.

  • The reality of ecological overshoot

  • Linear v. exponential models of climate collapse

  • Recognizing bullshit: why climate lies continue

  • How to live a relevant life

  • Aldo Leopold: “…a world of wounds”

  • You are not diseased

  • The perils of alienation

  • The power of integration; unifying the kludge

  • Viktor Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning

  • Ikigai, meaning and purpose

  • Hedonia v. eudamonia

  • Avoiding burnout: fundamentals of stress education

  • The importance of engagement/relationships

  • “Don’t fight, don’t lose” Our educational vacuum

  • The who, what, where, when, why and how

  • Curiosity and inquiry

  • What makes a good action?

  • Hard style v soft style

  • Ambidexterity

  • Treat people like animals

  • Secular “knowledge” vs. inner and outer activism

  • Root causes and the call to change ourselves

  • Colonialist attempts to dismiss spiritual activism

  • Activism and the call to creativity

  • The nature of complex systems

  • Implications and life lessons: we just don’t know the ultimate effects of our actions.

  • The world is changed by how we show up

On completion of training, each participant will receive a digital certificate, suitable for posting on websites or social media. May also be used to petition for continuing education credits with your professional organization.

Roundtable forums

Activism is Medicine Roundtable Forums are formal and informal discussions between members of the AIM team; as well as conversations between the AIM team and climate activists, scientists concerned about climate annihilation, and experts in many fields, including education and psychology, knowledgeable about the issues surrounding sustainable activism.  If interested in participating, please contact us at: activismismedicine@gmail.com.

Video recordings of Roundtable Conversations are available on the Resources page. 

15-Minute Videos

AIM-15 Minute Videos address some of the primary issues facing climate activists in a straight forward and concise manner. Anticipated topics include: avoiding mass extinction; what is to be done; the tech/social media role in climate extinction; and up-to-date climate collapse perspectives concerning cause-of-death, life expectancy, and the future of actuarial mortality tables.

Access to 15-Minute Videos can be found on the Resources page.