New Rochelle, NY, April 15, 2016—A new ecopsychology tool, with roots in the environmental justice movement, aims to break patterns of racial and social injustice that, combined with ecologically unsustainable development, continue to fragment and damage the planet and individuals. The Breakthrough Compass, a model designed to facilitate transformation of the self and the world, is described in Ecopsychology, a peer-reviewed, online journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free for download on the Ecopsychology website until May 15, 2016.

 

M. Paloma Pavel, Earth House Center, and Carl Anthony, Breakthrough Communities, Oakland, CA, present the basis for developing the Breakthrough Compass, its purpose and how it can be implemented in the article entitled “Building Just and Resilient Communities: New Foundations for Ecopsychology.” Among the current challenges facing communities are “the school-to-prison pipeline” and the growing fragmentation in society, in particular in metropolitan regions. The authors describe the five stages of the Breakthrough Compass and provide strategies and tools for navigating the model.

 

“Their ideas are important, visionary, and practical. The first stage in their model – we need to wake up!” says Editor-in-Chief Peter H. Kahn, Jr., PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

 

About the Journal
Ecopsychology is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly online that seeks to reshape modern psychology by showing that it cannot stand apart from an intimate human connection with the natural environment.  Against this backdrop, the Journal publishes original scientific research articles, as well as theoretical papers, case studies, nature writing, and reviews of important books and other media. Complete tables of content and a sample issue are available on the Ecopsychology website.

 

About the Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Sustainability: The Journal of Record, Environmental Justice, and Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Its biotechnology trade magazine, GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News), was the first in its field and is today the industry’s most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm’s 80 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website.