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Community Engagement- the Motor of Transition. Transition Training 2007. How to translate all that interest and energy into action?. Transition Training 2007. Abundance -one of the Keys to Creating Community Involvement.
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Community Engagement- the Motor of Transition Transition Training 2007
How to translate all that interest and energy into action? Transition Training 2007
Abundance -one of the Keys to Creating Community Involvement. “how do people of Western civilization, particularly those addressing the environmental crisis, shift from a scarcity paradigm to one that spawns abundance in the context of our environmental realities?” Canty, J.M. (2005) Environmental Healing: Shifting from a Poverty Consciousness. EcoPsychology.org. Transition Training 2007
Association *Awareness * Agency = Attitude behaviour change A³ = ABC David Ballard,. Using learning processes to promote change for sustainable development, Action Research Sage Publications Volume 3 Issue 2, June 2005
The “End of Suburbia effect”. “Healthy functioning requires that we have faith that our needs will be met in the future; without this confidence, our trust in the world is damaged. Damaged trust can lead to four neurotic reactions that are likely to impact environmental behaviour: narcissism, depression, paranoia and compulsion”. Winter, D.D. & Kroger, S.M. (2004) The Psychology of Environmental Problems. New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Transition Training 2007
Why Don’t People Act? “ Our key finding is that consumers are generally happy to act sustainably where it does not impinge on their key priorities and cause them inconvenience” Holdsworth, M. (2003) Green choice: what choice? Summary of NCC research into consumer attitudes to sustainable consumption. London, National Consumer Council. Transition Training 2007
Why Do People Act? “in this context, motivating sustainable consumption has to be as much about building supportive communities, promoting inclusive societies, providing meaningful work and encouraging purposeful lives, as it is about awareness raising, fiscal policy and persuasion” Jackson, T. (2005) Motivating Sustainable Consumption – a review of evidence on consumer behaviour and behavioural change. Centre for Environmental Strategy. University of Surrey. Transition Training 2007
Models for understanding the underlying dynamics • Frames • Motivational Interviewing • Change models Transition Training 2007
Lessons from Addiction/Change Transition Training 2007
Motivational Interviewing. …constructive behaviour change seems to arise when the person connects it with something of intrinsic value, something important, something cherished. Intrinsic motivation for change arises in an accepting, empowering atmosphere that makes it safe for the person to explore the possibly painful present in relation to what is wanted and valued”. Miller, W.R. & Rollnick, S. (2002) Motivational Interviewing – preparing people for change. New York, The Guilford Press. Transition Training 2007
Insights from MI. • Express empathy • Develop discrepancy • Roll with Resistance • Support self-efficacy • Offer time and space to digest • Information Exchange not Information Dumping Transition Training 2007
Another way of assessing your community Stephen Hounsham, Painting the Town Green, How to persuade people to be environmentally friendly, GreenEngage, 2006, p9, from work by Maslow, NEF, and Pat Dade
The FRAMES Model. • Feedback of personal risk or impairment • Emphasis on personal responsibility for change • Clear Advice to Change • A Menu of alternative change options • Therapeutic empathy as a counseling style • Enhancement of client self-efficacy or optimism Miller, W.R. & Sanchez, V.C. (1993) Motivating young adults for treatment and lifestyle change. In: Howard, G. (ed.) Issues in Alcohol Use and Misuse by young adults. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press. Transition Training 2007
What is our Role? “our role is to compassionately assist in its death process, trying to ease the burden and pain of its passing. This includes restraining the impulse for revenge among those who see their foundations undermined by the new. For the emerging … society, our role is to compassionately assist in the birth of a new way of acting in the world. As with any birthing process, there will be some pain and trauma associated with the … birth. Our role is to minimise the pain and nurse the new society to full health”. “a dual role, hospice and midwife”. Korten, D.C. (2000) The Post Corporate World – Life After Capitalism. San Fransisco, Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Abdullah, S. (1999) Creating a World That Works for All. San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. Transition Training 2007
Home Groups – maintaining and sustaining Transition Training 2007