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This workshop adapts the Appreciative Planning & Action (APA) framework to inspire personal action plans around positive climate actions. Participants share stories, reflect on virtues, and create practical next steps for sustainability. Join us to shift focus from problems to solutions, drawing inspiration from success stories and moral capabilities.
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Creating Action Plans that Address Spiritual Values in our Personal and Community Activities Adapted from the Appreciative Planning & Action (APA) Framework of Malcolm J. Odell, Jr., PhD Washington, DC Education for Sustainable Development
Our Goals: • Share success stories • Inspire and learn from each other • Create personal action plans Education for Sustainable Development
Our Approach: Shift our questions and analysisfrom ‘What’s wrong?’ & ‘How do we fix it?’ to ‘What’s working?’ & ‘How do we get more of it?’ Education for Sustainable Development
Step 1: Individually, reflect on a time in your life or work when you were part of an inspiring, empowering experience related in some way to taking positive climate action Step 2: Now briefly share that story with a partner Education for Sustainable Development
Step 3 (formgroups of four): • Introduce your partner to your group and briefly tell what inspired you about his/her action. • Identify a virtue or moral capability reflected in your partner’s story, and write it on the back of your partner’s name tag. Education for Sustainable Development
Step 4: Dream…of what would be even better What are you inspired to do next? Draw a picture that represents your goal. Include a few next steps. What can you do this week? 6 mo? 1 year? Write these steps on your picture or on the flipside. Share your picture and next steps with a partner from your group Education for Sustainable Development
Step 5: Go forth and multiply! Education for Sustainable Development
Conference Evaluation • What worked? • What would be even better? Education for Sustainable Development