Sustainable Businesses & Corporate Responsibility
Sustainable Tactics has a different approach. Developed for leaders of the future business world, its core purpose is to work within the complexity of large organisations to build corporate visions and attitudes that are truly sustainable.
Our network of coaches and facilitators are confident working with senior teams to explore the issues and support profound changes of belief and values. Subscribing to the view that all
change starts with the individual, they are confident in the use The Amazon is a canary in a coal mine for the Earth – George Meyerof Action Research, NLP and ‘Presencing’ approaches, and are themselves congruent leaders. They understand the importance of organisations in changing world futures and the complexity of managing sustainably
Our core offering is Coaching and Facilitation, often working in the natural world, to ensure that the organisations of the 21st century and beyond have visionary teams embracing the best of industry with a conscience.
The core training and approaches offered are:
Facilitation of Discussion Groups
… to create an ongoing dialogue around previously unexplored issues or intractable problems. Cross-functional management teams bring their own goals and issues to a working group. Over a series of fortnightly meetings these are set in the context of both the wider picture and personal parallels, through an understanding of system thinking and action research approaches.
One to One Coaching
… for leaders aspiring to build sustainable businesses. Sensitive yet challenging support for individual exploration, perhaps including coaching through horses, to focus on previously elusive goals and outcomes.
Learning from horses can be at many levels, as the ongoing story of Connie shows…
Training in leading edge Facilitation Techniques
Action research approaches are used to explore Complexity Issues, Team Dynamics and other management challenges. Each programme is developed to the organisation’s specific needs.
Business and Communication Consultancy
A fresh perspective on messages, communication channels and existing issues, by engaging in the day to day activity of the organisation alongside your employees, an external view point provides the leverage to transform communication. For organisations of any size and sector.
The team is led by Liz Morrison, ICF-PCC, LLB who has completed an MSc focused on action research, systems thinking and complexity approaches in management change at the University of Bath. Her emphasis is on metaphorical and constellation approaches. Her career has been in blue chip marketing (Nestle, Mars Group, Kimberly Clark, and Zeneca) and Government stakeholder relations. This depth of business experience supports her in offering a pragmatic understanding of organizational culture and development issues when coaching. Also qualified as a riding instructor and NLP master practitioner she offers particularly sensitive facilitation of issues using horses. She has a lively, inspiring and tenacious style, and is appreciated for bringing a sense of positive thinking, pragmatism and initiative to her clients.
Liz Morrison is also a director of Safeguarding Matters Ltd following her work organising VBS Roadshows and the application of criminal record checks for the CRB during 2009/10 for central government.
In the first instance contact
Sustainable Tactics
to discuss your requirements
on 01403 752845, or
info08@sustainabletactics.co.uk
Pause and reflect on the following
quotes that relate to sustainability:
Understanding the Issues
We all live downstream
David Suzuki
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity.
Chico Mendes, Rubber Tappers’ leader
While nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we’re driving
Douglas Adams (author)
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value
Theodore Roosevelt (US President 1901-1909)
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it’s usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed
Theodore Roosevelt
…our culture’s frenzied and mindless assault on the last shreds of nature may not be the wisest course… We’re melting the ice caps, ripping up the rain forest, and vacuuming the oceans of everything that wriggles
George Meyer, (BBC Green Room, 3/8/2006)
Embracing Complexity
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences
R Ingersoll
The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask
Nancy Newhall
If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either
Joseph Woodkrutch
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we
Michel de Montaigne
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd
Baruch Spinoza
If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again
John Zerzan
Our environment is like a patchwork quilt. Each “patch” is dependent on those around it. If one part unravels, it affects the rest
Hemeon
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Appreciating the environment
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift
Albert Einstein
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver
Martin Luther, reformer and teacher (1483 – 1546)
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life
Anon
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts
Rachel Carson
Appreciating the environment – Trees
No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
George Bernard Shaw
We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness – and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there’s no problem
William McDonough, architect
Beyond Environment …
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better
Albert Einstein
In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught
Baba Dioum
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Proverbs and ancient wisdom
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished
Lao Tzu
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world’s caprice, you will never be rich
Publilius Syrus (42 BC)
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
Confucius
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul
Prophet Muhammad
Men argue; nature acts
Voltaire
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art
Cicero
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed
Francis Bacon (16th Century philospher)
If you are thinking one year ahead, sow seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people
Chinese proverb
Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade
Arabian proverb
… And finally …
Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realise that you can’t eat money
Native American proverb