Trainer: Dr. Mohammed Al-Ajab
Number of Participants: 15–30 participants
Target Audience:
- Protected area managers, environmental specialists, employees, and activists in environmental organizations.
Course Outcomes:
- Provide participants with the fundamental knowledge and concepts of protection psychology and self-development as an entry point for nature conservation.
- Develop participants’ capacities and skills in leadership, negotiation, and decision-making under environmental pressures and emergency situations.
- Enable participants to recognize the importance and significance of protection psychology and self-development for nature conservation.
Course Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to build a strong psychological and spiritual connection before starting fieldwork in nature.
- Participants will be able to transform concern for the environment (climate anxiety) into positive energy for action instead of frustration.
- Enable participants to persuade opponents (such as hunters and investors) of the value of nature conservation without confrontation.
Training Modules:
- Self-Awareness and Connection with Nature: The Eco-Self
- Environmental intelligence.
- Overcoming climate anxiety.
- Mindfulness in the field.
- Leadership and Influence Skills: Influence & Leadership
- Environmental charisma.
- Persuasive negotiation.
- Servant leadership.
- Psychological Resilience and Stress Management:
- Managing burnout.
- Decision-making under pressure.
- Systems thinking.
- Creativity and Innovative Solutions:
- Design thinking.
- Storytelling.
Training Methods:
- Interactive lectures.
- Brainstorming.
- Exercises.
- Simulation.
- Interactive group work.
- Case study.