Shifting to Sustainability:

Trusting the Next Generation to be Change Agents

DR. JAN BARTLETT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND CLINICAL SCHOOL

COUNSELING COORDINATOR

KAYLA SELBY MA CANDIDATE, SCHOOL COUNSELING

SOFIA SELIGER MA CANDIDATE, SCHOOL COUNSELING

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA

Welcome!We appreciate your voice, opinion, passion, understanding, and energy.

Welcome to the “TABLES to create CHANGE”

WE are here to co-create strategies to meaningfully connect with students 15-24, enlisting them to become change agents and problem solvers. This session will be interactive and student led.

Our goal is for participants to leave the session with a plan to engage thousands of young people in co-creating a vision for future and steps to achieve the dream. No meaningful change happens without young people being involved.

To find solutions to the many challenges facing our planet, communities, and individuals….

all voices are needed at the table.  

No meaningful change happens without the involvement of young people

The goal of this session is to develop strategies for increasing numbers of youth to become change agents in their communities; tackling the questions that matter.

WORKSHOP FRAMEWORK

Open Space Technology

World CaféAppreciative

Inquiry

OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY4 KEY PRINCIPLES1. Whoever comes are the

right people2. Whatever happens is the

only thing that could have happened

3. Whenever it starts is the right time

4. When it’s over it’s over

World Café 7 Design Principles

1. SET THE CONTEXT2. CREATE HOSPITABLE SPACE3. EXPLORE QUESTIONS THAT

MATTER4. ENCOURAGE EVERYONE'S

CONTRIBUTION5. CROSS-POLLINATE AND CONNECT

DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES6. LISTEN TOGETHER FOR

PATTERNS, INSIGHTS, AND DEEPER QUESTIONS

7. HARVEST AND SHARE COLLECTIVE DISCOVERIES

Appreciate Recognize the quality,

significance or magnitude of To be fully aware of or

sensitive to To raise in value or priceInquiry The process of gathering

information for the purpose of learning and changing.

A close examination in a quest for truth.

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Appreciative Inquiry

A LITTLE DATA…

State of the World• World-o-Meters

State of People

In 2012, an estimated 9.6 million adults diagnosed with Mental Illness in the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health

Every 5th Teenage either attempts or contemplates sucide 28.8% of U.S. adults diagnosed with anxiety disorder National

Institute of Mental Health

20.8% diagnosed with mood disorder 16.5% being diagnosed with depression National Institute of

Mental Health

Society’s Shifting Context

Adam Smith, 1723-1790, Wealth of Nations Our desire for a life without shame…. A linen shirt

Today what is considered “required” to be “in style”? Economist, Tim Jackson said…today people

spend money they do not have, on stuff they do not need, to impress people they do not really care about, to create impressions that do not last.

In the past 60 years… Human beings have consumed more than ALL

the people before combined!! USA consumes the most!

How do we change behavior, with Fun!http://www.thefuntheory

PIANO STAIRBOTTLE BANK ARCADETHE WORLD’S DEEPEST BIN

PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO GROUP MEMBERS

WHAT DREW YOU TO THIS SESSION AND WHAT IDEAS DID YOU BRING?

Reimagine the future. What does it look like?

ROUND ONE

Round Two

WHERE DID YOUR DISCUSSION GO?

WHAT COMES NEXT?

How do we move forward?ROUND THREE

“Happy” the FilmHTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=JCMQMUVZPMI

Closing activity

Film Resources

FILMS Happy (2013) A Place at the Table (2013) Transition Towns 2.0 (2012) Fork over Knives (2011) Economics of Happiness (2011) “I am” (2011) Waiting for Superman (2010) The Organic Opportunity, Woodbury County, IA

(2007)

Reading Resources Braly, J., and Hoggan, R. (2012) Dangerous Grains: Why gluten cereal grains may be

hazardous to your health. New York: Penguin Group.   Blanchard, G. (2011). Ancient Ways: Indigenous healing innovations for the 21st

century. MA, Holyoke: NEARI Press.   Brumberg, J. J. (1997). The body project: An intimate history of American girls. New York: Random House.   Buettner, D. (2010). Thrive: Finding happiness the blue zones way. Washington D.C.: National Geographic.   Buettner, D. (2008). The blue zone: Lessons for living longer from the people who’ve

lived the longest. Washington D.C.: National Geographic.   Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. New York: Little, Brown, and

Company.   Glendinning, C. (1994). My name is Chellis & I’m in recovery from western civilization.

Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications.

More…. Grimes, R. L. (2000). Deeply into the bone: Re-inventing rites of passage (life passages). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.   Heinberg, R., Lerch, D. (2010). The post carbon reader: Managing the 21st century’s sustainability crises. Healdsburg: Watershed Media.   Jordan, J. B., Kaplan, A. G., Miller, J. B., Stiver, I. P., & Surrey, J. L., (1991). Women’s growth in connection: Writings from the Stone Center. New York: The Guilford Press.   Kellert, S. R. (2012). Birthright: People and nature in the modern world. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.   Kindlon, D., & Thompson, M. (2000). Raising Cain: Protecting the emotional life of boys. New York: Ballantine.   Korten, D.C. (2006). The great turning: From empire to earth community. San Franscico: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.   Lappé, A. (2010). Diet for a hot new planet: The climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it. New York: Bloomsbury.   Leonard, A. (2010). The story of stuff: How our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our health – and a vision of for change. New York: Free Press.

And more….. Maté, G. (2011). When the body says no: Exploring the stress-disease connection. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Maté, G. (2010). In the realm of hungry ghosts: Close encounters with addition. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books. Maté G. (1999). Scattered: How attention deficit disorder originates and what you can do about it. New York: Plume.

Mead, M. (1970). Culture and commitment: The new relationships between the generations in the 1970s. New York: Columbia University Press.   McKibben, B. (2010). Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet. New York: Time Books.   McKibben, B. (2007). Deep Economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future. New York: Holt Paperwork.   Miller, J. Neufled, G., & Maté, G. (2006). Hold onto your kids: Why parents need to matter more

than peers. New York: Ballatine Books.   O’Brien, R. & Kranz, R. (2010). The unhealthy truth: One mother's shocking investigation into the

dangers of America's food supply. New York: Broadway Books/Crown Publishing Group .

And more still…. Pipher, M. (1999). Another country: Navigating the emotional terrain of our elders. New York: Penguin Putnam.   Pipher, M. (1994). Reviving Ophelia: Saving the selves of adolescent girls. New York: Ballantine.   Plotkin, B. (2008). Nature and the human soul: Cultivating wholeness and community in a

fragmented world. Novato, CA: New World Library.   Pollack, W. (1998). Real boys: Rescuing our sons from the myths of boyhood. New York: An

Owl Book, Henry Holt.   Ray, R. H., & Anderson, S. R. (2000). Cultural Creatives. New York: Harmony.

Robb, C. (2006). This changes everything: The relational revolution in psychology. New York:

Farrar, S, and Giroux. Shenk, D. (2010). The genius in all of us: Why everything you’ve been told about genetics,

talent and IQ is wrong. New York: Doubleday.   Wheatley, M., & Frieze, D. (2011). Walk Out Walk On: A learning journey into communities daring to live the future now. CA: San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.