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Background
The MCJD (Many Care, Just Differently) form gives those who have completed the 2024-25 EcoTypes survey an opportunity to do two things: (a) think more deeply about their own survey results, and (b) consider how someone else might respond differently. Some actual MCJD examples from 2023-24, with students interacting with a diverse set of neighboring communities, are here.
Here are some potential benefits of completing the approximately 90 minute form:
- You’ll improve your understanding, and ability to communicate, your personal environmental framework—your broad approach to environmental issues.
- You’ll improve your understanding of other people who may not share your environmental framework.
- By improving your understanding of self and others, you will build important skills in leadership across difference: working successfully with all kinds of people.
Remember: when you disagree with someone about environmental issues, it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that they just don’t care enough. But maybe they do!…in a different way. MCJD helps you systematically explore that possibility.
Preparation
You may do the interactive MCJD form any time after you complete the survey. But some parts of it are difficult. Here are two things you may want to study in advance.
- Complementarity. As part of the form, you will compare your EcoType with your complementary EcoType: the one that differs from yours the most. Here is a quick background on the theory of complementarity that may help you better appreciate the value, and the challenges, inherent in your complementary EcoType. New for 2025!: the Complementarity section now includes an AI-based conversation opportunity with your complementary EcoType….check it out, and feel free to apply to the imagined conversations you’ll have on the MCJD form.
- Navigating difference. As you read above, an important part of the form is for you to imagine someone else who may have axis scores, theme scores, EcoTypes, or global priorities that differ from yours. How do you navigate there differences with other people? You’ll learn four ways, all called “counting,” in the form: at right is a table summarizing these four ways of counting, how they approach differing EcoTypes, and how they approach conversation across difference. You’ll see this table on the form, too, but studying it in advance may help.
Ready? Just paste below the entry key you received as part of your EcoTypes survey report, then make sure to give yourself about 90 minutes to fully complete the structured MCJD form. Enjoy!