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)

"Pulled together a good range of tools & research that can be applied in life, work and home. Helped me to be more effective at engaging others in eco-actions" (Tony Moore, Principal Advisor-Sustainability, Christchurch City Council)

"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 sound, simple and useful introduction to behaviour change techniques" (Jackie Fitchman, Communications Advisor, Environment Waikato)

"Very empowering, practical skills in a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere (Kate Alexander, Student, Canterbury University)

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

"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)

"The workshop challenged my thinking and provided a good basis and tools to work from for effecting baheviour changes personally, in the workplace, and community" (Lyne Johnson, Community Development Advisor, Marlborough District Council)

"I can see clearly now! Wow, who knew persuading people could be so achievable. Really feel I am leaving today with some tangible tools to really make a difference" (Christine Watson, Communication Executive, Hamilton City Council)

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

"I will be using the tools from todays workshop to enhance the sustainability project in my workplace - they are practical and hopefully effective" (Anne-Marie Woolley, Health Promoter, Toi Te Ora-Public Health, Tauranga)

"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)

"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)