Having worked in HE teaching and consultancy for thirty years, mostly in NW Europe, I am currently writing a book with a colleague from Lancaster University Management School which explores the human and social aspects of project delivery from a practitioners standpoint. The economic, social justice and environmental aspects of sustainability form a key part of our writing and this is what has drawn me to DEAL..
My training is in management, leadership and organisational development, both as a coach to individuals and groups and as an experiential learning practitioner delivering learning events to groups within organisations, both large corporates and smaller enterprises.
Over the years I have been an active participant in the environmental movement, initially with Greenpeace and in the more recent past as a project worker in the Arctic Voice Project which aimed to initiate dialogue between schools and Communities in the Canadian and Greenland arctic with schools and communities I the UK. Part of the fieldwork necessitated leading a party of sea kayakers through 1500 miles of the Canadian NW Passage in the process of visiting remote communities in as sustainable a way as we could practically deliver.
I have a belief that a contributing factor in explaining and resolving our unsustainable ways of living is our dis-connection from nature and the natural world of which we are an integral part. I have in the past used the outdoors as a medium and metaphor for facilitating learning about our relationships with ourselves, other people and our environment, how ever defined.
