Engaging our Communities in Sustainability & Wellbeing

Engaging our Communities in Sustainability & Wellbeing –Tapping into What Works Well

Time: 1:30pm – 5:00pm

Engaging our Communities in Sustainability & Wellbeing –Tapping into What Works Well

Time: 1:30pm – 5:00pm

About the workshop

If you are interested contributing to creating a campus where sustainability and wellness thrive, join Debbie Hindle and Dr Catherine Elliot from the University of Tasmania (UTAS), in this collaborative workshop. The workshop will use Appreciative Inquiry to identify opportunities to create achievable and effective change within your organisation.

About the workshop

If you are interested contributing to creating a campus where sustainability and wellness thrive, join Debbie Hindle and Dr Catherine Elliot from the University of Tasmania (UTAS), in this collaborative workshop. The workshop will use Appreciative Inquiry to identify opportunities to create achievable and effective change within your organisation.

Your facilitator/s

Debbie Hindle is currently the Wellbeing Specialist within the People and Wellbeing team at the University of Tasmania and holds a Masters of Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne. Debbie has used Appreciative Inquiry approaches to facilitate positive change and development across a range of settings and people, including with tertiary staff and students. She has a professional background and personal commitment to diversity, inclusion and living sustainably, and understands deeply that caring for others, caring for community, and caring for our country is integral to caring for our own individual wellbeing. Debbie also enjoys drawing on her strengths of curiosity, appreciation, and humility to enable groups to envision and co-create a better way of being.

Dr Catherine Elliott is a Senior Sustainability Officer at the University of Tasmania. For three and a half years Catherine has coordinated the Sustainability Integration Program for Students (SIPS), an award-winning program that provides opportunities for students to work on projects tackling real-world sustainability challenges.

She is the facilitator of the Education for Sustainability Communities of Practice (EfsCoP), as well as a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Tasmania Network. Catherine loves mentoring students and collaborating with teams to tackle sustainability challenges across the University of Tasmania.

Your facilitator/s

Debbie Hindle is currently the Wellbeing Specialist within the People and Wellbeing team at the University of Tasmania and holds a Masters of Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne. Debbie has used Appreciative Inquiry approaches to facilitate positive change and development across a range of settings and people, including with tertiary staff and students. She has a professional background and personal commitment to diversity, inclusion and living sustainably, and understands deeply that caring for others, caring for community, and caring for our country is integral to caring for our own individual wellbeing. Debbie also enjoys drawing on her strengths of curiosity, appreciation, and humility to enable groups to envision and co-create a better way of being.

Dr Catherine Elliott is a Senior Sustainability Officer at the University of Tasmania. For three and a half years Catherine has coordinated the Sustainability Integration Program for Students (SIPS), an award-winning program that provides opportunities for students to work on projects tackling real-world sustainability challenges.

She is the facilitator of the Education for Sustainability Communities of Practice (EfsCoP), as well as a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Tasmania Network. Catherine loves mentoring students and collaborating with teams to tackle sustainability challenges across the University of Tasmania.

Who should attend

This workshop will be relevant to anyone in the organisation who has an interest in contributing to a sustainable and well campus community and particularly relevant for managers, supervisors, and team leaders wanting to lead positive change within their faculties, departments, centres, schools, and teams and for those working to create change across the organisation.

Who should attend

This workshop will be relevant to anyone in the organisation who has an interest in contributing to a sustainable and well campus community and particularly relevant for managers, supervisors, and team leaders wanting to lead positive change within their faculties, departments, centres, schools, and teams and for those working to create change across the organisation.

Workshop/Learning outcomes

Learn how to use Appreciative Inquiry to draw out ideas from your teams that lead to positive change

Learn how to facilitate and lead change for sustainability and wellness within your organisation