A Pilot intervention for supporting youth and elders with eco-anxiety in the US, UK, and Nigeria 

In partnership with the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University, We engaged in the development, execution, and evaluation of a pilot for a novel intervention that supports people with ‘eco-distress. The project was tested in three locations: Lagos, Nigeria, New Orleans, LA, US, and London, UK. In each location, youth and elders participated in small group conversations that employed evidence-based methods for understanding and coping with eco-distress. These small group conversations were facilitated by community facilitators in partnership with the research team. We used Local Voices Network (LVN) technology, a speech-processing platform that enables partners to bring communities together for listening, understanding, and sharing. We are very pleased to have implemented the Lagos arm of the project.

Local Voices Network (LVN) is a platform for constructive communication that brings people together in recorded small-group conversations around their lived experiences (demo). LVN is created by the media technology non-profit Cortico in cooperation with MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication. Through a combination of deep human listening and artificial intelligence, LVN enables us to make sense of the conversations about eco-anxiety we collect to amplify typically underheard voices, inform public understanding, and ultimately, drive better policy and decisions that take this data into account. Explore our Conversations