"Bakit ang environmental psychology hindi nabibigyan spotlight, kahit if our country is one of the most vulnerable to natural disasters?"
This was the question I posed to students at the ReLeaf Learning Session last February 24. Thank you so much to the UST Department of Psychology and UST Psychology Society (PsychSoc) for the invite to speak at this event!
The room was filled with attendees eager to learn about the intersection of psychology and environmentalism, and that energy really kept me going throughout the session. As co-lead of the Global Psychology Alliance's Climate Change Working Group, I was grateful for the opportunity to discuss environmental identity and encourage more students to explore environmental psychology.
Year after year, we experience typhoons, flooding, and rising sea levels across the Philippines. Our communities feel the mental health impacts of these climate events firsthand. Yet environmental psychology remains largely absent from our psychology curricula. I believe our students deserve frameworks to understand how environments shape behavior, mental health, and well-being.
I was really glad to see so many students come on their own time, eager to understand how psychology connects to environmental challenges. We simply need to create more spaces for this learning.
I look forward to seeing environmental psychology gain the recognition it deserves in Philippine higher education. Our students are ready for it, and our communities need it.
Maraming salamat to everyone who joined us!











