{"id":3708,"date":"2024-03-11T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=3708"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T22:51:57","slug":"noons-for-now-march-14-feeling-kibou-how-developing-a-video-game-is-helping-youth-learn-about-and-cope-with-eco-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/noons-for-now-march-14-feeling-kibou-how-developing-a-video-game-is-helping-youth-learn-about-and-cope-with-eco-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Noons for Now March 14: Feeling Kibou: How developing a video game is helping youth learn about and cope with eco-anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kibou | The Guiding Light is a video game that is being developed by young people across three different continents. Kibou has been designed to help youth strengthen socio-emotional skills to sustain mental health and wellbeing as they navigate the complexities of the climate crisis and engage with meaningful climate action. Because of the nature of the participatory processes used in this video game production, however, the youth involved in this intersectoral and interdisciplinary endeavour, as they work together on this project, are also reaping tangible benefits in various areas of their lives. In this presentation, Dr. Maggi talks about the challenges and rewards of working with young people from different parts of the world on the making of Kibou | The Guiding Light, a project that brings together her aspirations as an academic, promoter of the rights of young people, and advocate for a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n

Speaker: Stefania Maggi is an interdisciplinary scholar cross appointed between the Childhood and Youth Studies program and the Department of Psychology at Carleton University where she teaches course relevant to the psychology of climate change, education for sustainable development, nature connection, and human development. Her participatory research collaborations with educational institutions and community-based organizations in Canada and abroad focus on addressing the impacts of climate change on the wellbeing of young people and the use of immersive technologies (e.g., video games) to promote positive development, emotional wellbeing, climate awareness and environmental behaviors and action.<\/p>\n

Dr. Maggi is the founder of\u00a0Mochi4ThePlanet, a youth-centered movement promoting coping with climate change and emotional resilience. She is also an executive member of the\u00a0Landon Pearson Centre for the Studies of Childhood and Children\u2019s Rights; a member of the\u00a0Pickering Centre for Human Development, the\u00a0Climate Psychology Alliance North America, the\u00a0Child Rights Academic Network, and\u00a0Teachers for Future International.<\/p>\n

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