Awake

Awake has developed a workshop to support those people who seek to promote sustainable behaviour.

The Cultivating Sustainability workshop draws on the psychological principles and drivers of sustainability, and provides skills and tools for facilitating behaviour change.

Topics covered include

Identifying and developing personal responsibility and personal power
Influencing & feedback strategies
Understanding and using values
Modes of decision-making and how to access them
Changing Habits
Creating and using cognitive dissonance

Who is this workshop for?
If you have taken on the challenge of promoting sustainability in your organisation, your community, or even your home, you will benefit from being equipped with an understanding of the psychological factors involved, and the tools to use it to your advantage.
This workshop will assist you to

Identify what people need in order to embrace sustainability
Target your efforts and resources to the points of most leverage
Incorporate psychological principles to your sustainability programs
Communicate about sustainability more effectively
Meet others who are dealing with similar challenges and share ideas and success stories

The Cultivating Sustainability workshop can be run in-house, and is also offered as a public workshop on a regular basis. To enquire about the next Cultivating Sustainability workshop, click here.

A flyer can be downloaded as a pdf here

What attendees of
Cultivating Sustainability
are saying....

"A rich and well-paced workshop the provided many tools, tips and techniques to help create sustainable behaviour"
(Gordon Hollonds, Customer Strategy Manager, SP-Ausnet, Melbourne)

"The demand for environmental advice from staff members within the company I work for can be so great that I end up being very solution-focused. This workshop helped me give thought to how I communicate with staff to ensure buy-in and behavioural change"
(Di Paton, Communications Manager-Environmental, Air New Zealand)

"Great workshop. Good balance of theory with participatory exercises and discussions. Some valuable tools and techniques."
(Matthew Minoprio, Permaculture Designer)

"The workshop provided me with some really useful tools to inject into our behaviour change programmes"
(Barnaby Smith, Sustainable Business Advisor, Environment Waikato)

"Thank you for the information on creating new habits. I will review the 20 target behaviours we have identified in our new programme, I think it could help with some of them quite a bit"
(Jacob Rawls, Sustainable Homes Manager, Ecomatters)

"Tim's style and manner enabled a comfortable and safe environment for our group" (Janet Phillips, Community Facilitator, Castlemaine 500)

"A great selection of practical tools to help with behaviour change programme planning and development"
(Trish Kirkland-Smith, Sustainable Environment Team Leader, North Shore City Council)

"Provided me with new methods and ideas to help other people understand sustainability as well as understand their hesitations. Also helped me put together an action plan to address unsustainable behaviours that have bothered me for a while." (Gordon Young, Industry Advisor, Australian Industry Group)

"Very informative, useful workshop that leaves me with tools I can use to be a more effective sustainability leader" (Ron Eckman, Downtown Eco-Therapy)

"A well constructed approach to bringing people on board the sustainability waka"
(Ken Ross, Community Development Advisor, Far North District Council)

"The workshop cemented previous behavioural change learning and provided the terminology for concepts that I am aware of, but didn't have the label" (Anne McLean, Sustainable Transport Officer, Hobson Bay City Council)

"It was great to receive some practical advice on how values are an important component to understanding how behaviours can be changed" (Sally-Anne, Environmental Educator)

"Refreshing to find that sustainability principles can be delivered by addressing personal values and behaviours, rather than using yet more scientific data (Duncan Cunningham, Wellington)

"I have learned a lot about how to motivate people to change for sustainable outcomes" (Melbourne workshop participant)

"Tim's background as an Organisational and Environmental Psychologist provided the workshop with the appropriate rigour in terms of behavioural change models for participants to use personally and professionally. His passion for the area and desire to make a difference was apparent. I would recommend this workshop for participants working in the area and/or are passionate about living in a sustainable world" (Melbourne workshop participant)