Services
Join us in shifting the tide to creating a life sustaining world for all. Everyone has the potential to be a leader for sustainability. And everyone is needed. We want to work with you so your contributions are at your highest capacity, in your chosen issue area. We offer workshops, trainings, coaching, and learning journeys as described below.
Art of Sustainability
Creative problem solving is essential for addressing the many challenges we face in bringing about a sustainable future for people and planet. Creative expression stimulates the right side of the brain, and seeks meaning, expansive possibilities, and the big picture. Those who engage in creative processing often experience a profound sense of new possibilities and are more effective in their work place.
Workshops can be tailored from an hour to several days. They can be exercises that address specific issues in an organization or they may be used to enhance personal growth, working relationships, sensing systems, and team building. We offer workshops on art in nature, action performance, deeper dive, and big art. Read more here.
Contact: Jay Mead
Coaching
The one-on-one or small group coaching that we offer helps individuals find opportunities in current challenges, identify learning edges, and articulate a vision for their work, desired outcomes, and how they want to show up in the world. Our approach is firmly grounded in deep listening and inquiry, offering open-ended questions for people to explore in real time. The disciplines of systems thinking, reflection, vision and creative expression frame the coaching methodology we have designed. Sessions can be thought-provoking and inspiring, with participants coming away with greater clarity and purpose. Our coaching expertise is in the areas of sustainability, working and being at your highest ability, clarifying personal and professional vision, and sustainable health.
Contact: Edie Farwell
Guided Visioning and Systems Wisdom
Either in person, via Skype, or as part of a webinar, we offer guided visioning and systems wisdom sessions for individuals and groups. These can be tailored to your current team or personal needs, such as desired outcome of a project, event, or next steps in your work or how you show up in the world. View this summary and video recording of an example webinar session. Also available is visioning for finding work-life balance, your ideal health, or to help find clarity on a health decision.
Contact: Edie Farwell
Leadership Capacity Building
Our leadership capacity building workshops draw on our experience of working with our Fellows network and focus on the key practices we developed for and with them: visioning, systems thinking, reflective conversation, and creative expression. People of all ages, backgrounds, and sectors are welcome in our leadership workshops, which are tailored for your specific organization, company, or school. These integrate learning, visioning, and acting for sustainability.
Contact: Dominic Stucker
Speakers Bureau
Our network of sustainability professionals is vast and talented. We can help you find a speaker, consultant, or advisor in a diversity of sustainability fields from business, government, philanthropy and the non-profit sector. Find a Fellow here.
Contact: Edie Farwell
Sustainability Learning Journeys
Our learning journeys are designed to help participants see the world through other peoples’ eyes and to experience unique ecosystems and cultural groups from within. We provide opportunities to gain a deeper understanding of systems thinking, sustainability projects, and communities, plus an improved ability to learn and be of service in a different culture. We offer custom designed learning journeys to a diversity of places, including Brazil, Ladakh, and Central Asia. We guide participants through a reflective and creative process that enriches cultural exchange and learning, and enhances participants’ capacities to empathize and think in systems.
Contact: Dominic Stucker
Farmers Apprenticeship
We are developing a Farmers Apprenticeship with Cedar Mountain Farm, co-located with Cobb Hill Cohousing in rural Vermont. This program will work with a half dozen apprentices for up to two years, developing skills in sustainable agriculture. Read more here.
Contact: Stephen Leslie



