Understanding Your Own Frames

When thinking about framing in the context of environmental or policy disputes (or any situation, for that matter), it is often relatively simple to identify the frames that others are using, and often very difficult to identify our own frames.

Here are a few useful exercises to use to better understand your own framing of a particular dispute:

Your Own Values

Features You Are Not Seeing

What Shapes Your Values?

 


Also available: General Environmental Dispute Simulation

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