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Sustainability Sense Can values help? Paul Murray Paul Murray. C HANGE. C RISIS. Images: Panos Pictures/NASA/Chris Jordan photography/ www.pancreaticcancercanada.ca /. Change: what can make it happen?.
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Sustainability Sense Can values help? Paul Murray Paul Murray University of Plymouth Centre for Sustainable Futures
CHANGE CRISIS Images: Panos Pictures/NASA/Chris Jordan photography/www.pancreaticcancercanada.ca/
Change: what can make it happen? Image sources www.against-the-grain.com/; www.strategicdc.com; www.spaar.com ; http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/; www.wwf.org
PeoplePeoples’ actions matter Peoples’ motivations matter Image sources: www.against-the-grain.com/; www.strategicdc.com; www.spaar.com; http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com; www.wwf.org
It starts with values • Values: • What is important. Guiding principles • “Honesty” • Attitudes: • Judgements, feelings and dispositions that predispose behaviour • Beliefs: Our model of the world; personal ‘facts’ or truths’ • ‘God exists’, External environment Social/peer influence (Sources: Gross 2005, Rokeach 1976 Oskamp 2001, Bell et al 1996)
How values work Behaviours Image courtesy of ‘Reform Magazine’
Eliciting Core Values Using your activity sheet: Identify three of your DEEPEST, core values ”I value above other things …... honesty?....”
Core values: the benefits: Congruence Purpose Self-empowerment Integrity Direction ‘Drive’ Personal/Professional/Planetary Wellbeing SOURCES: Kollmuss & Aygeman 2002; Brown & Kasser 2005; Maiteny 2002; Osbaldiston & Sheldon 2002; Bloemer & Dekker 2003; Burrows & Rindfleisch 2002; Amel, Manning & Scott 2009
How values work PRACTISE OUTCOME INCONGRUENCE Image sources: www.renewedlivinginc.comwww.smallbusinesssuccess.ca
Understanding our values Are these REALLY my core values? Can I learn to act on my core values?
Moving forward • Testing/exploring • Remembering/ reminding • Noticing • Using • Reinforcing
MOVING FORWARD Self-leadership www.eauc.org.uk/new_self-leadership
Environment Behaviour External Conscious Capabilities Internal Unconscious Beliefs Identity Core values Purpose Image source: Namonitore: http://eng.namonitore.ru/
AHA! WHERE ARE WE • Can ‘living’ our values support our work/lives? • Do our deeper values complement SD? • Can we learn to put our values into practise? • What else?