Affirmative Intervention to Support Multispecies Relationships

Janet J. McIntyre-Mills, DLitt et Phil in Sociology, is a Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa in the College of Education and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide Business School since December 2019. With affiliations at universities in Indonesia, such as Universitas Padjadjaran, she is affiliated with the Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research.In August 2019, she was recognized as "Sociologist of the Month" by the Current Sociology Journal for her paper "Recognising our hybridity and Connectedness." Her research was ranked by the National Research Foundation in South Africa in 2020 and has been supported by grants from the South African National Research Foundation in 2021 and 2022 (grant numbers 132043 and 137987).Her research focuses on systemic representation, accountability, and re-generation applied to social and environmental justice concerns. She has authored numerous articles in accredited journals and edited and sole-authored volumes, including "Transformative Education for Regenerative Development" (Springer, 2021), "From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships" (Springer, 2021), "Planetary Passport: Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation" (2017), and "Systemic Ethics and Non-anthropocentric Stewardship" (2014), all published by Springer, New York.

• Earning, Learning and Growing a Future Together.- The Personal and Political: Ways to Support Participatory Design: Affirmative Intervention to Support Multispecies Relationships through Meditation, Analysis, Scenarios and Story Pathways to Wellbeing.- Storytelling and Scenarios : Fostering Emotional Intelligence, Distributive Leadership and Multispecies Relationships.- Vignette A Critical Systemic Reflections on Narratives at Writers Week in the Wake of Climate Change, Pandemic and War.- A Reflection on Knowing your Place: Learning Supported by Meditation and Dialogue.- Storytelling to Weave Scenarios with Unravelled Threads.- Pointing the Way : How Critical Systemic Novels can Help to Address Polarisations : Through Recognising Continuums and Exploring Integrative Scenarios.- Making Sense of my Own Life : Pandemic and Unravelling: Diary Notes 2022-2023.- Vignette: Small Stories : Orphans Growing a Future Post Covid.- High as a Kite: School Lunches as Food for Thought.- Earth Jurisprudence, Consciousness and Knowing our Place : Protecting the Commons (food, water, energy) Through non Anthropocentricism and Nonviolence Protecting the Commons Through Linking Indigenous Views on Natural Law with Relational Governance.- Rebalancing Conservation and Development:Water Security and Sowing Indigenous Seed and Wisdom.- A Metalogue on Constructivism and why Thinking Matters : A Consideration of Multispecies Relationships and Re-considering our Identity.- The Logosofia Thread as Constructivist Paradigm Praxis.- Community of Practice based on Spanning Boundaries and Extending our Solidarity with other Species: Intergenerational Learning and Local Wisdom.- Exploring Lessons on Re-generative Living with a Community of Practice in South Africa and Indonesia.- Re-generating Local, Regional and International Leadership Through Community engagement on Earning, Learning and Growing a Future: A Metalogue with Youth Leaders and Young at Heart Facilitators.- Multi-species Relationality Through Scaling up Systemic Governance to Re-generate and Protect the Commons: Summing up our Dialogues and Metalogues.- Concluding Reflections on Dynamics and Displacement: Implications for Systemic Governance Food, Energy and Water Security.