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Dear colleagues,
We invite you to join us for a PDW on Authentic Sustainability: Paradoxes, Pitfalls, and Pathways in Conversations for a Better World on Saturday, August 10 from 12:30-2:30 pm at WDW Coronado Springs Resort, Yucatan 2 & 3.
Have you ever felt stuck or had conversations about sustainability that haven't gone the way you would have liked? We want to empower you to have effective and transformative conversations about sustainability, and enable your students to do the same.
This PDW explores various pitfalls of sustainability, or recurring conversations in the sustainability discourse that correlate with the experience of being stuck. This work explores why we get stuck in pitfalls and how we can escape them. It points out how advocates for the "flourishing of human and other life forever" undermine that flourishing in the way we engage with people every day. It reveals some persistent tensions and ambivalences we all experience that generate paradoxes of sustainability beneath the pitfalls. When we distinguish these pitfalls and underlying paradoxes, we can identify them in our lives and our conversations, and are then free to explore pathways out of and around what would otherwise remain latent traps. Our intention is for these pathways to lead to greater freedom, volition, authenticity, integrity, and effectiveness and that they will contribute toward a transformation of the sustainability "movement" or dialogue – to support the flourishing of our lives in the pursuit of the flourishing of all life.
The PDW has three parts: an overview of the paradoxes, pitfalls, and pathways; a coaching workshop on authentic sustainability conversations; and a discussion of how this approach can be integrated into courses and organizations. Please join us!
Program Session 308
Organizers: Gabriel Grant, Yale University; Jason Jay, MIT: Sara Soderstrom, University of Michigan, and Laura Yates
Sponsors: ONE and SIM
Saturday, August 10, 12:30 – 2:30 pm
Yucatan 2&3
WDW Coronado Springs Resort
Pre-registration is required for this workshop. To register online, please visit https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg. The deadline to register online is August 7, 2013.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Sara
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Sara Soderstrom
Assistant Professor
Organizational Studies
Program in the Environment
University of Michigan
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