Developing and delivering sustainability strategies
Course description
This course uses the One Planet Living, a holistic framework developed by Bioregional for a world in which people enjoy happy, healthy lives within their fair share of the earth’s resources leaving space for wildlife and wilderness. It offers participants tools and skills to make sustainability understandable at both the individual and corporate level, to measure and manage its impacts and to provide clear targets and strategies to improve performance.
This course has application for organizations wish to:
- Address sustainability challenges
- Create new products and services
- Increase profitably and reduce costs
- Develop appropriate solutions and actions
- Improve their social and environmental performance.
Upon completion of the course, participants become accredited Sustainability Integrators in the use of the One Planet Living and its Assessment Framework and gain access to the all the programme’s tools and resources.
“One Planet Communities offers us a very simple choice: The next time we choose a place to live, we can choose one that invests in the sustainability of our planet. This will allow us to make a difference on a scale – and with the urgency – that all of us now know is absolutely necessary.”
Achim Steiner – Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
Methodology
Appreciative Leadership catalyzes systemic generative change in organizations and communities. Its applications include: strategic planning, Vision-Values-Culture articulation and cascade, leadership and team excellence, coaching, employee engagement, and alliance integration. Appreciative leadership facilitates organization-wide changes through appreciative tapping of strengths, ideas, aspirations and co-evolved imagination.
Benefits
This is a practical course to get participants started on developing their own sustainability action plans. By the end of the course you will know how to:
- Effectively scope out and identify your key dependencies and impacts
- Develop an action plan to manage and mitigate your impact
- Select and use the best tools for driving change in your organisation
- Know to communicate your message to everyone in your organization from CEOs to the shop floor
Programme
The programme is flexible and will be tailored to the experience and requirements of the participants.
- Introduction
- Basics of sustainability; One Planet Living, Planetary Boundaries
- Key concepts; Footprint analysis, Ecosystem Services
- One Planet Living case studies
- Indicators and matrices
- Tools and techniques; workshops, scoping, creating Action Plans
- Work on your own project
- Feedback and development
- Use of Appreciative Inquiry
- Links to wellbeing at work
- Engaging peers and the ‘shop floor’
Duration: 5 days
Dates: Upon request
Location: Athens, Greece
Designed for participants/groups
This workshop is designed for staff, managers and professionals who already have a knowledge of sustainability but require a deeper understanding. It will benefit professionals with a direct responsibility for sustainability as well as human resource professionals, building managers, team leaders and other decision makers. For those with no or little experience in sustainability, background reading can be supplied in advance.
Instructors
Ben Gill is a Chartered Environmentalist with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment and a certified BREEAM assessor. He has 15 years of experience in the sustainability sector with experience in renewable energy, waste management and sustainable business and communities. Mr. Gill is working with cutting edge sustainability projects including Villages Nature and Singita Serengeti in France and Tanzania respectively. Past clients include the UK Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, Nokia and Global Leadership Adventures.
Mr. Gill studied Earth Science at Cambridge University and completed an MSc at Imperial College in Environmental Technology. He has run a variety of training courses for businesses and design teams in sustainability. He spoke at the 40th anniversary of Earth Day at Rabat, Morocco and performed in schools with a rapping robot!
Dr. Markos Perrakis, founder and managing director of Fractality, designs and implements projects in the areas of leadership development and strategic planning to promote effective communication and individual and collective process development.
Dr. Perrakis is one of the first persons in Greece to apply the methodology of appreciative inquiry for individual and organizational development. This approach seeks to strengthen human capital and social bonds to generate organizational capacity.
Fractality offers services in coaching, training, assessments, supervision, process facilitation and speaking, systemic consultation, solution focused and cognitive behavioural approaches, methods of participatory design, spiritual intelligence and psychometric assessment. Dr. Perrakis is a certified provider of Vocational Guidance and Professional Orientation and an ISO 9001 lead auditor.
Dr. Perrakis is a representative of the Association of International Institution Supervision in Europe, a member of International Intervision Groups, scientific assistant of the Society for Organisational Learning, and scientific partner of the European Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (EUMU) in Greece in the Strategic Planning and Human Capital Development programmes.
Dr. Perrakis holds a Ph.D. in social psychology on leadership styles and their efficiency in organisations and an M.A. in clinical psychology.
Venue
Our program will take place in Athens, Classical Athens was a powerful city-state that emerged in conjunction with the seagoing development of the port of Piraeus. A center for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato‘s Academy and Aristotle‘s Lyceum,[6][7] it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy,[8][9] largely because of its cultural and political impact on the European continent, and in particular the Romans.[10] In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece.
Participation Fee
The fee for this course is 780 Euros. More information on these funding criteria can be found on our Erasmus+ Workshop pages.
It includes tuition fee and educational material, certificates of participation, half day excursion (optional) to idyllic Neptune Temple at Sounion Cape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounion) in Attica seaside (or similar).
Accommodation and meals are not included in the above fee, but can be arranged by FRACTALITY at special price/low cost for half or full board, in three or four star hotels in the city center. We can always manage low prices for groups. Ask us about it!
Contact us
Questions or concerns? please contact us at [email protected] or call +302106010522. Cancellation Policy*
Until 30 days before the starting date of the selected workshop, cancellation will be free of charge and the pre-payment will be fully refunded. Between 30 to 15 days before the starting date of the workshop, 50% of the fee will be refunded. Within the 15 days before the starting date of the workshop no refunds will be made.