My most important pieces of writing are my books Find Your Power (2nd Edition, Permanent Publications, 2010) and Active Hope (co-authored with Joanna Macy, published by New World Library and due out in March/April 2012). For a selection of articles I’ve written, see my page at http://issuu.com/findyourpower
You can also download or link to the following articles here:
1) Afterglow, Altruism and Adventure
This article, written for the Action for Happiness website, describes how ‘afterglow’ is one of the keys to developing satisfaction in life.
http://www.actionforhappiness.org/news/afterglow,-altruism-and-adventure
2) Can You Grow Happiness?
This article looks at practical strategies for improving mood while also contributing to a cultural shift towards sustainable living. A slightly shorter version was published in Permaculture Magazine in 2010 (no. 65). You can download it here.
3) The Avatar Effect
First published in Permaculture Magazine in 2010 (no. 64), this article looks at the impact of Avatar the movie from a permaculture perspective. You can download it here.
4) Interview with Rob Hopkins about my book
The responses I wrote to questions Rob Hopkins asked me are viewable at: http://transitionculture.org/2010/05/15/exclusive-interview-chris-johnstone-on-inspiration-finding-your-power-and-transition/
5) Resilience, Recovery and the Self-help SSRI
This article, published in the Journal of Holistic Healthcare, describes how depression and anxiety can be stages in a healthy sequence of recovery, especially when encountering disturbing information about the state of the world. It introduces the ‘self-help SSRI’, based on developing Strategies, Strengths, Resources and Insights that help us respond. You can download this here.
6) From Overwhelm To Engagement
This article describes five strategies to find our power when feeling overwhelmed by global issues. It was printed in Permaculture magazine (no.49). You can download it here.
7) Ten Strategies for Avoiding Burnout
Also published in Permaculture Magazine (no.50), this article applies permaculture ideas to preventing burnout. You can download it here.
8) Strategies to Prevent Burnout
BMJ 7192 Volume 318: Saturday 1 May 1999 This piece was published in the Career Focus section of the British Medical Journal. Based on my Burnout Prevention course, it was written for a medical audience. However the principles it outlines can be applied to burnout prevention in any field. You can read it on the web at http://www.bmj.com/content/318/7192/S2-7192.full
9) What is Deep Ecology?
This was originally produced as a leaflet to introduce Deep Ecology workshops. It has now been translated into several languages, published on various websites and printed in the Irish ecological paper Earthwatch. You can read it on the web at: http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/johnston.htm
This article has also been translated in German, Spanish and French.
10) The Great Turning Times and Deep Ecology News
You can view the current and past editions of my free email newsletter The Great Turning Times at http://www.greatturningtimes.org
Thanks to John Seed of the Rainforest Information Centre, past copies of an earlier version of this, called Deep Ecology News are available at: http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/news.htm
These include editorials by Chris.
11)Interview with David Gershon
I see David Gershon’s book Social Change 2.0 as hugely important for our time, it describing his work on community empowerment and behaviour change for a sustainable civilization. Permaculture Magazine published an interview I did with him on their website. You can read it at: http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/changing-world-your-neighbourhood
Some other writings
12) Reconnecting with our World
Chapter 8 in Creative Advances in Groupwork, eds. Anna Chesner and Herb Hahn, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2002 (ISBN 1 85302 953 X). This chapter describes Deep Ecology workshops designed to deepen participants’ feeling of connection with our world and strengthen their power to respond to global issues. Drawing on the work of Joanna Macy and John Seed, the chapter describes the principles and practice of this type of empowerment process, as well as reporting the results of a follow up outcome study. In this, a postal questionnaire was sent to participants a year after they had attended one of these workshops. Over 90% of respondents reported a strengthening in both their sense of connection with the world and their feeling that they could make a difference within it. Over 80% replied that the experience of the workshop had changed their life, and for this, over a quarter had marked the response ‘very deeply’.
You can buy this book at: http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book.php/isbn/1-85302-953-X
13) Interview in The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
Chapter Six of this best-selling guide to addressing peak oil and climate change focuses on the Psychology of Change. It features an interview with me where I describe how insights from addictions treatment can help us address our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. For more information, see http://transitionculture.org/shop/the-transition-handbook/
14) Interview in Be The Change by Trenna Cormack
In this chapter, I tell some of my story and describe what inspires and sustains me in addressing my concerns about the world. For more information, see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Change-Action ReflectionTransforming/dp/0955521300/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291665822&sr=1-1
15) The Lens of Deep Ecology
This booklet introducing systems thinking and the Deep Ecology approach was published by the Institute for Deep Ecology (UK) in 1994, and revised in 1997. It has been used as a core text on university courses in several countries. It is currently out of print, though extracts from it are still used on several distance-learning packages. You can download a digital version from http://issuu.com/findyourpower