Ecological Facilitation: A gritty and creative approach to leadership

17th Oct – 23rd Oct 2010 12:00

Special EAUC Member rates available.

This practical and evocative course will explore questions of how to facilitate and lead groups engaged in the complex challenges of creating a sustainable future for all life. What forms best reflect our intentions? What practices reflect and therefore enable a more ‘eco-logical’ way of being? What approaches to leadership support and model the change we seek to facilitate? These questions are applicable within community, business and educational settings.
We will create a vibrant learning community together providing opportunities for you to practice and explore your skills and qualities as an ecological facilitator. You will leave resourced and ready to make a difference.

Please go to the Schumacher College website for more details. Click here.

The course is intended for:

Facilitators, leaders, educators, organisational consultants, community leaders, change agents, activists, all those working with change within organisations and all those working with groups engaged with questions of sustainability. We welcome those with little experience alongside highly experienced practitioners wishing to refresh and advance their work. From this dynamic mix we will create a strong learning community.

What is eco-facilitation?

Our contributors tell us in their own words….
Jenny Mackewn: Ecological facilitation takes facilitator leaders beyond the individualistic and organisation-centred concerns which have come to dominate the 20 and 21 centuries, to attend to the wider and fundamental socio-ecological and cultural concerns which are now urgent.
Toni Spencer: The emerging field of ‘ecological facilitation’ looks to healthy, dynamic ecosystems for guidance in approaching change. It provides a logical and instinctive starting point for new leadership towards a sustainable world. In this work, we engage with participatory approaches that allow for the emergent wisdom of a group, and invite an interest in all aspects of the whole. We also engage with the idea of an ecological self as leader, bringing new experience and new insight to the process of change. This is wonderfully creative and deeply challenging work.

Teachers:

• Jenny Mackewn regularly leads, facilitates and catalyses sustainable change in corporate, community and academic settings. She is a creative-catalyst in limitednowhere and is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice (CARPP) where she was director of a unique programme in facilitation as a form of action research. She has written a chapter in the Sage Handbook of Action Research on facilitation and leadership as forms of action inquiry, and is a national trainer for the Transition Towns and Cities movement. She is currently co-creating a programme about developing resilience in organisations.

• Toni Spencer is on the Faculty at Schumacher College and has been leading on the innovative Schumacher Certificate in Education for Sustainability, designing, facilitating and teaching on the course using a wide variety of facilitation techniques and approaches. She has also co-designed and run a number of Schumacher Short Courses. Alongside this she is a freelance facilitator elsewhere including Embercombe and Transition Town Totnes. She is also engaged in a re-emerging art practice and a growing practice as a wild food forager and teacher.She holds a BA in Fine Art and a MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice. Previous professional work has been with organisations including Goldsmiths, as a Lecturer in Eco Design, Forum For the Future, the Social Venture Network, Attainable Utopias, Wallpaper* Magazine as one of the founding editorial team, and Wink Media.Toni’s facilitation and coaching practice is fed by both professional and personal experience in the fields of Art and Eco Design, embodiment practices, The Work That Reconnects, Deep Ecology, Permaculture and new social ventures.

This residential course runs from Sunday PM to Saturday AM. All course fees include accommodation, food, field trips and all teaching sessions.

Normal rate £850

20% EAUC discount - £680

Please note that the reduced rates offered below are exclusive to EAUC Members - please quote ‘EAUC 20%’ when booking.

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