“Make Me Care”- changing how we talk and think about the climate crisis
<p>A good friend, the psychologist<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2023/10/01/dr-tony-bates-just-because-you-have-trauma-in-your-life-doesnt-make-you-a-nice-person-if-youre-hurt-you-pass-that-on/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> <strong>Tony Bates</strong></a> has just published a powerful memoir that maps the development of mental health services in Ireland in parallel against his own life’s experience. It’s called <a href="https://books.google.ie/books/about/Breaking_the_Heart_Open.html?id=_ZMO0AEACAAJ&redir_esc=y" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Breaking the Heart Open </em></a>and embraces the idea of mining your life story to expose and illuminate the universal. When Tony was writing it he asked me for some advice and I quoted Pixar’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxDwieKpawg" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Andrew Stanton, </strong>who did a wonderful TED Talk </a>on storytelling, and says the key to storytelling is— ‘Make Me Care’. Empathy.</p>
<p>If you want to take me into complex material, into issues, facts and data, start by thinking how do you make me care about it, and how do you make me feel this is also my story too.</p>
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