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Learning for Sustainable Living Seminars
October 2016
Werner Sattmann-Frese PhD
I am a Senior Lecturer and Program Manager at the Jansen Newman Institute in Sydney (Australia) and an Adult Educator at Learning for Sustainable Living
You can contact me at [email protected] or through the www.lfsl.info website
Slideshare PPT 13 January 2017
The Integral Learning for Sustainable Living seminars aim to assist people from all walks of life in deepening their understanding of their emotional, social, and ecological issues.
In the safe and confidential space of a closed group, eight to ten participants are invited to explore their difficulties with living sustainable lives with the aim of making their lives more enjoyable and socially and ecologically sustainable.
You are likely to benefit from these seminars if you:◦Feel dissatisfied with aspects of your life◦Wish to enhance your communication skills◦Struggle with addictions◦Wish to enhance your sense of connection with other people and the more-than-human world
◦Enhance your conflict resolution skills◦Feel you would benefit from joining a small group of people with the aim of creating friendships based on mutual caring for one another and the planet.
Increased life satisfaction, body-awareness, communication skills, and understanding of the psychosocial and environmental causes of illness significantly reduce individuals’ ecological footprints and thereby the pressure on our ecosystems.
As expenditures for environmental protection and the management of catastrophes continue to increase, community-based health and sustainable living initiatives are likely to become more important. This seminar series is such an initiative.
To find sustainable solutions for struggles with sustainable living
To enhance personal communication and the ability to be emotionally connected to people
To share with others successful sustainable living strategies
To practice self-awareness and self-regulation To understand the sustainable needs behind
unsustainable wants To deepen understanding of the links between
personal and environmental sustainability.
Perspectivism Social ecology Ecopsychology Ecotherapy Ecofeminism Mindfulness Ecospirituality Somatics Psychosomatics
Eight to ten participants attend ten fortnightly meetings of three hours
Alternatively the seminars can be offered as two weekend workshops
A short version of four meetings is available
The topics of this abbreviated version are marked with (SV 1 to 4) in the following slides
Short introductionWorking with the Sustainability Questionnaire
Identifying personal sustainability issues by working with the sustainability mapping structure shown on the following slide.
(SV1)
In these meetings, participants address the sustainability issues identified through the sustainability mapping process and support others in their explorations.
Each of these meetings except the last one starts with a 45-minute presentation and discussion on an important aspect of sustainable living.
These small educational presentations and discussions assist participants in deepening their understanding of important sustainable living issues.
(1) Understanding the sustainable needs behind unsustainable ‘wants’ (SV2)
(2) Body awareness and mindfulness (SV3) (3) Spirituality and person-planet unity experiences (SV4)
(4) Ecological aspects of relationship conflicts
(5) Holistic understanding of addictions (6) Ecological views of mental illness (7) Psychosocial aspects of physical illness (8) Environmental aspects of physical illness
The seminars can be used as professional development for professionals such as counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, and sustainability educators.
An online learning environment is currently being developed at ww.lfsl.info for individuals who have completed the seminar series and wish to gain the knowledge and skills to facilitate these seminars and similar courses.
Efforts are currently being made to offer this project in collaboration with a higher education training provider.
Social work Lifelong learning and extension Counselling and psychotherapy Sustainability education Population health Ecopsychology
Werner Sattmann-Frese is a counsellor and psychotherapist with more than 30 years of work experience. He holds a Master of Applied Science degree in Social Ecology and a PhD for the completion of a research project on the psychosocial background of ecological crises and the interrelationships between personal, social, and environmental sustainability. For the last ten years Werner has been working as a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney and as a full-time Lecturer and Program Manager at the Jansen Newman Institute in Sydney.
All participants will get a complementary copy of the book ‘Learning for Sustainable Living’ by Werner Sattmann-Frese and Stuart Hill.Paperback: 348 pagesPublisher: Lulu.com (March 19, 2009)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1409251020ISBN-13: 978-1409251026
Background reading
Participants in the LfSL seminars will have free access to an online course that is currently being designed as a learning resource for this seminar series.
The course will be available on the ‘Learning for Sustainable Living’ website at www.lfsl.info
Please contact Werner Sattmann-Frese at [email protected] or [email protected] to gain additional information on this initiative.
Venues: Community and environmental centres in the Sydney, Central Coast and Newcastle areas.
Cost when paid by participants: $55 ($40) per 3-hour seminar
$480 ($360) when paid at the beginning of the series of seminars.
Bendigo Sustainable Living Group http://www.bsg.org.au/groups/ Sustainable Living Tasmania http://www.slt.org.au/community_group_support
City of Darebin – sustainable living http://www.darebin.vic.gov.au/en/Darebin-Living/Caring-for-the-environment/SustainableLiving
Grow http://www.grow.org.au/
Centre for Global Mental Health http://www.centreforglobalmentalhealth.org/projects/India
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/psychiatrist-vikram-patel-in-times-100-influential-people-list/article7116887.ece
Centre for Sustainable Health Care http://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/ The George Institute for Global Health http://www.georgeinstitute.org.au/units/neurological-and-mental-health
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/cost/cost.pdf
http://www.environment.gov.au/land/green-army http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041614001648
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20333947 http://www.basicneeds.org/prioritising-mental-health-in-the-sustainable-development-goals/
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/02/united-nations-mental-health-development-goals
