Glossary
COMPASSION
"Compassion is an attunement and awareness to suffering in oneself, others and nature, coupled with an ability to relate with kindness, empathy and mindful awareness, while maintaining a commitment to alleviate and prevent such suffering through compassionate action. This encompasses self-kindness rather than harsh self-criticism, recognition of our shared human experience, and the motivated intention to address related suffering wherever it is encountered."
PSC Glossary
Naming our feelings and recognising others’ experiences can open space for the clearer thinking and deeper conversations needed to respond to the climate and nature crisis with care.
This glossary gathers the emerging language that supports the work we do at PSC. It’s one of the tools we use to help people and communities navigate complexity, emotion and transformation. Giving shape to emerging ideas and emotional concepts supports meaningful dialogue, whether between colleagues, with clients, across dinner tables or in public forums.
We acknowledge that not all experiences can—or should—be easily defined. Part of our holistic, embodied approach to the climate journey is honouring the wordless moments too: the pauses, silences and sensations that also carry meaning.
As a living resource, the glossary grows with us. Language is not fixed and neither is the terrain we’re walking. We've gathered sources from far and wide and welcome your insights, additions and shared wisdom as we learn together.
Care-in-Action
Care-in-Action is PSC’s unique approach to responding to the climate and nature crisis with courage, compassion and intention. It brings together emotional insight and meaningful action, honouring inner transformation as essential to big, collective change.
At its heart, Care-in-Action recognises that care is not action's soft extra, but a vital, relational force that drives justice, resilience and regeneration, and is shaped through lived experience.
This practice holds space for reflection, emotion, and complexity, because lasting change is determined not just by what we do, but how we do it, and who we become in the process. It puts the care in our actions. The PSC five-year strategy is called Care-in-Action, because it gives vitality to everything we do.
