Creativity
You could have an environmental policy that reads just like any other environmental policy and sits in a digital folder gathering digital dust. OR you could actually have fun!
There is no set formal for sustainability policies for community organisation.
The purpose is to tell your environmental story - your story of 'place'.
So why not get creative!? ... write your environmental policy through an art competition, or poetry, or song writing ... shoot a video of your people doing what you do for your environment ... this is a great opportunity to think outside the box.
There is no set formal for sustainability policies for community organisation.
The purpose is to tell your environmental story - your story of 'place'.
So why not get creative!? ... write your environmental policy through an art competition, or poetry, or song writing ... shoot a video of your people doing what you do for your environment ... this is a great opportunity to think outside the box.
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Many faith traditions describe the universe as 'Creation', and see connections between natural processes and human creativity. Art highlights the awe we feel at the beauty of nature.
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Sample creative environmental policies |
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Playfulness and Creativity: Comment by Jasmine Kieft
It's okay to have a sense of playfulness around thinking about future and thinking about solutions. There's something very creative and amazing about the way children and young people approach these in ways that we wouldn't ourselves - so be really curious with what's going on for them. And allow creativity to be part of the process.
It's okay to have a sense of playfulness around thinking about future and thinking about solutions. There's something very creative and amazing about the way children and young people approach these in ways that we wouldn't ourselves - so be really curious with what's going on for them. And allow creativity to be part of the process.
Safe-to-fail Experiments
Courageous Steps: Comment by Pip Newland, Sustainability Lead, Orion
We talk about 'Safe to fail' experiments as an approach to encourage courageous steps; getting after it and 'doing the thing' rather than getting bogged down in trying to analyse what's going to happen to the 'nth degree'.
It is not being irresponsible with what you are doing, but it is framing it correctly. You are clear with the impacts you are wanting to have. At the start of it you have already thought about 'what happens if this goes well?'; what are the outcomes you want to see, and also what happens if it does not go well. You learn as much from when it does not go well as when it does go well. An experiment can be any number of things, a change in a system.
The trick is to start small and then iterate. If it works well in that context how can we build on that so that it gets bigger and bigger? You make the big step much safer because you have trialled it. It's all about trying and testing. You have to keep reflecting, 'what has worked, what hasn't?'
CarbonZero webinar, Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce, March 2021
We talk about 'Safe to fail' experiments as an approach to encourage courageous steps; getting after it and 'doing the thing' rather than getting bogged down in trying to analyse what's going to happen to the 'nth degree'.
It is not being irresponsible with what you are doing, but it is framing it correctly. You are clear with the impacts you are wanting to have. At the start of it you have already thought about 'what happens if this goes well?'; what are the outcomes you want to see, and also what happens if it does not go well. You learn as much from when it does not go well as when it does go well. An experiment can be any number of things, a change in a system.
The trick is to start small and then iterate. If it works well in that context how can we build on that so that it gets bigger and bigger? You make the big step much safer because you have trialled it. It's all about trying and testing. You have to keep reflecting, 'what has worked, what hasn't?'
CarbonZero webinar, Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce, March 2021
Promote Experimentation And Support Failure: Comment by Deborah Goldstein
Leaders weaken their team’s creativity when they don’t promote experimentation and don’t support failure. In order to encourage creativity, leaders can inspire discussion of team aspirations, and let their team work towards those co-created goals. Experiments never fail. Even when an attempt fails, with the right mindset, teams learn priceless lessons to succeed in the future.
Move Toward Chaos: Comment by Bill Gardner
Imagine a continuum with control and chaos anchoring the ends. A leader who wants to increase creativity should move incrementally toward chaos. A system is at its most creative on the "cusp of chaos" because all ideas will be considered. No leader wants to go all the way to the cusp, the goal is to move slightly beyond comfort. Forbes article
Leaders weaken their team’s creativity when they don’t promote experimentation and don’t support failure. In order to encourage creativity, leaders can inspire discussion of team aspirations, and let their team work towards those co-created goals. Experiments never fail. Even when an attempt fails, with the right mindset, teams learn priceless lessons to succeed in the future.
Move Toward Chaos: Comment by Bill Gardner
Imagine a continuum with control and chaos anchoring the ends. A leader who wants to increase creativity should move incrementally toward chaos. A system is at its most creative on the "cusp of chaos" because all ideas will be considered. No leader wants to go all the way to the cusp, the goal is to move slightly beyond comfort. Forbes article
