Behaviour Change Congress Brochure

Ideas, Inspiration, Tools and CollaborationAn in-depth, two day exploration into behaviour change for sustainability in our communities & organisations

EARLY BIRD RATES Available until 21st October

WORKSHOPS Separately bookable 1 Behaviour Change Practitioners Clinic 2 How to Build a Community of Change Agents

Please note: Everyone will be actively involved throughoutthese two days of knowledge sharing and collaboration. Bring your ideas and an open mind

WHAT TO EXPECT Professor Garry Egger, Director of the Centre for Health Promotion and Research

Professor of Health and Human Sciences at Southern Cross University and an Advisor to the World Health Organisation and several Government and corporate bodies, Dr Garry Egger has worked in public, corporate and clinical health for over 4 decades. His recent interests and publications concern the link between obesity, climate change and economic growth. Garry is the author of Planet Obesity: How we are eating ourselves and our planet to death

Ed Gillespie, Co-Founder, Futerra (UK)

Ed has driven the creative direction of Futerra's work in sustainability communication since it’s foundation over 10 years ago. He guards against green-wash while putting some fun and passion into sometimes complex messages. His interesting career history includes working for the Natural History Film Unit, as a marine biologist in Australia, New Caledonia and Orkney and on environmental issues for Transport for London.

Tom Crompton, Change Strategist, WWF (UK)

Tom is WWF-UK’s Change Strategist. His work examines the basis for today’s dominant approaches to environmental communications and campaigns, and asks why these are failing to deliver the scale of change that is needed. He has worked and consulted for many governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations on environmental issues. His most recent report, Common Cause: The Case for Working with Our Cultural Values, was published by a consortium of NGOs in September 2010.

Professor Ian Lowe, President of the Australian Conservation Foundation

Currently emeritus professor of science, technology and society at Grif�th University, Professor Lowe’s contributions to environmental science have won him a Centenary Medal, the Eureka Prize for promotion of science, the Prime Minister’s Environment Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, the Queensland Premier’s Millennium Award for Excellence in Science, and the University of NSW Alumni Award for achievement in science. Professor Lowe was named Humanist of the Year in 1988 and made an Of�cer of the Order of Australia in 2001.

For more info on speakers, please visit www.3pillarsnetwork.com.au

We’ll be hearing ideas and case studies, and then tapping into the collective wisdom in the room in a highly interactive, carefully facilitated format.

Developed collaboratively with some of Australia’s most active behaviour change practitioners, thinkers and researchers, the congress aims to help practitioners make real and substantive progress in their work.

We’ll work together to consider:

Everyone will be asked to bring their ideas and experience to the congress but some of our key presenters include:

The relationship between human health and climate change

The potential in bridging the gap between sectors and disciplines

New ways of thinking about our work, ourselves and each other

How we learn, connect, share ideas and change in a complex environment

How we communicate, the language we use and the power of story

Evaluation and how we understand the difference we make

The use of social media and technology as part of our initiatives

FACILITATORSWe’ve been working with a group of 30 behaviour change practitioners as part of an Active Learning Program since last year’s congress. Many of these practitioners have played a key part in developing the agenda and will be co-facilitating sessions on the day. These include:

Lead Facilitator Geoff Brown, Tangent Consulting

Geoff is the lead facilitator of both the 2011 congress and our Active Learning Program'. Since 2004, he has been the director of Tangent Consulting, specialising in group facilitation, facilitation training and in the design of community change programs. 15 years of hands-on experience and a working knowledge of human psychology allows him to bring a healthy dose of reality to any behaviour change initiative.

For more on Geoff, please visit www.3pillarsnetwork.com.au

Co-Facilitators

Rob Curnow, Director, Community Change

Dr Chris Riedy, Research Director, Institute of Sustainable Futures (UTS)

Martin Pritchard, Project Manager, National Centre for Sustainability

Alex Graham, Snr Education Of�cer, Of�ce of Environment & Heritage

Jim Castles, Project Guy, Yarra Energy Foundation

Shannon Perdotti, Manager of Sustainability, Port of Melbourne Corp.

Matthew Parnell, Director,Green Synergy

Janet Phillips, Climate Communities, Sustainability Victoria

Julie Harris, Education Program Mgr, Sustainability Victoria

Charlie Davie, Project Manager, Sustainable Living, Environment Victoria

Tania Crosbie, Director, Sustainability at Work

Damian SweeneyProject Manager, National Centre for Sustainability

Patrick Mc CormickSustainability Of�cerLa Trobe University

CLINICBEHAVIOUR CHANGE PRACTITIONERSWednesday 9th November, 9am-1pm, Sydney Venue TBC

This is a tailored session to meet individual participants needs so NUMBERS ARE STRICTLY LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM OF 20. Please book early to avoid disappointment and note that some basic, pre course preparation will be required to customise the workshop to your needs.

This workshop will provide ideas and suggestions for creating positive movement and the chance to explore the mechanisms of your work in a knowledgeable, collaborative environment, facilitated closely by a highly experienced psychologist and social researcher.

Neither for absolute beginners, nor for the advanced, this intensive half day workshop has been designed speci�cally for practitioners looking for practical help in moving their current behaviour change initiatives forward. Participants must be willing to share the details of their initiatives openly and con�dentially with the group including:

Identfy blockages, frustrations and difficulties

Share successes, breakthroughs and achievements It will take an evidence based approach to in�uencing action, highlighting the importance of using a behaviour change and evaluation framework. If you would like to discuss your suitability to this workshop in more detail, please call Anne Cameron on 02 9810 2164.

WORKSHOPHOW TO BUILD A COMMUNITY OF CHANGE AGENTS

Wednesday 9th November, 1.30pm-5.30pm, Sydney Venue TBC Do you have a tough problem / change initiative you are working to address? What if you could facilitate the development of not just one but a whole community of change agents? Over the last two years working together with Sustainability Victoria we’ve been doing just that – building a community of change agents in the �eld of Educating for Sustainability. Based on lessons we’ve learnt along the way, this workshop will help you to:

Develop ways for kick-starting and building a Community of Change Agents

Understand how the 7 principles for cultivating communities of practice can inform your own community building efforts

Build capability and leadership within your change initiative by leveraging Action Learning processes This workshop will be experiential and interactive and you can expect to walk away with a host of practical & pragmatic ways for moving your own community building /change initiatives forward.

PRACTITIONERS CLINIC & WORKSHOPSEPARATELY BOOKABLE Pre Congress sessions: Wednesday 9th November

Designed and facilitated by Rob Curnow, Director, Community Change

Rob Curnow has worked with a range of practitioners on behaviour change programs over the past 15 years from Our Water Our Future to Origin Energy Green Energy program and is currently working with Cultivating Communities and food web programs, City of Yarra on Public Place Recycling and Calder Regional Waste Management Group on evaluating the effectiveness of enforcement program.

Designed and facilitated by Andrew Rixon, Babel Fish Group & Convenor of The Story Conference

Founder of the boutique consulting company Babel Fish Group, Andrew works as a professional facilitator & leadership coach with international experience working with organisations in Australia, USA, Netherlands and UK. Principled, innovative & resourceful, Andrew enjoys living in Melbourne with his wife Sascha & dog George. Andrew can be contacted by email at andrew@babel�shgroup.com.

9.00amAcknowledgement of Country

Clarence Slockee, Aboriginal Education Of�cer,

Royal Botanic Gardens

9.10amIntroduction to 2011 Congress

Congress process outline Individual and collective goal setting

Geoff Brown, Tangent ConsultingSpeaker TBC, Of�ce of Environment & Heritage

9.40amSocial media at the congress: Experiential learning in practice

This congress is a great opportunity for us to experiment and play with social media in a supportive, collaborative environ-ment. Whether a complete novice or a compulsive blogger, Jess will show you the tools we will be using over the next two days.

Jess Miller, Goody Two Shoes

NEW MINDSETS AND WAYS OF LOOKING AT OUR WORK

9.50amHow do people learn, connect and share ideas in a complex environment?

Understanding how people connect and form social networks is one of the biggest challenges in behaviour change. In this session, we consider theories and frameworks around complexity and how our initiatives can be more agile in complex environments.

Patricia Rogers, Professor in Public Sector Evaluation, RMIT

10.15am

Facilitated Group Activity: Using complexity theory and systems thinking on a practical, applied level

Drawing on the collective wisdom and experience in the room, we will work together with experienced facilitators to consider how these theories can be applied to our work. This will include working with the Cyne�n framework.

Lead Facilitator: Geoff Brown, Tangent Consulting

Co-Facilitators: Behaviour Change Active Learning Program members (see pg 2)

11.15am Morning Tea

11.35amKeynote Address: Bringing the climate change conversation into our kitchens and dinning rooms

Is obesity the canary in the coalmine of our consumption driven economy? Exploring the relationship between climate change, eating behaviours, obesity and the economic system

Professor Garry Egger, Director, Centre for Health Promotion and Research, and co-author of "Planet Obesity: How we are eating ourselves and the planet to death" (2010)

12.15pm Lunch

CROSS SECTOR LEARNING AND COLLABORATION

1.15pmExploring ideas & inspiration from the health sector

What can we learn about behaviour change from the work being done in human health promotion? Looking at sustainability and

health together creates new ideas and possibilities.

“Understanding the relationship between human health, nature and environmental sustainability”

Matt Ebden, Lecturer, School Of Health and Social Development, Deakin University

“The Kooweerup Health Service community garden has seen wide reaching impacts environmentally, socially & economically”

Aileen Thoms, Health Promotion Practitioner, Kooweerup Regional Health Service

“Initiatives that address human health and climate change can work together to influence national policy”

Fiona Armstrong, Convener, The Climate and Health Alliance

2.00pmFacilitated Group Activity: How can we bring interdisciplinary collaboration into our work?

Exploring and integrating the existing knowledge in the room, across disciplines, Using scenarios and group problem solving Exploring how we can integrate interdisciplinary approaches into our work


Co-Facilitators: Behavior Change Active Learning Program members (see pg 2)

2.50pm Afternoon Tea

3.10pmWorking together creates change: The ‘we are and you are’ approach

CASE STUDY: Smart City, Solar City Townsville,A whole-of-community partnership in a city's journey to be smart and sustainable.

DAY ONE CONTINUED...

The UK Centre of Expertise on In�uencing Behaviour recom-mends the “co-design and partnership delivery (of programs) involving Government, business, communities, and civil society”.

Using case studies, this session examines the challenges and principles of partnering for behaviour change.

Greg Bruce, Executive Manager,

Integrated Sustainability Services, Townsville City Council

3.35 pmFacilitated Group Activity: What collaboration already exists between congress delegates and how do we identify the potential for more?

Using elements of the VicHealth Partnerships Analysis Tool to map out the interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration that already exists in the room; helping the group to identify new avenues and approaches to take away.



4.30pmBehaviour Change for Sustainability Active Learning Program Overview

What have we been exploring in our Active Learning Program? What have we achieved? What have been the challenges and what have we learnt along the way?

Richard Milroy, Director, 3 Pillars Network

4.50pm

Closing day one Wrap up and self-evaluation

5.00pm Drinks and socialising

DAY TWO9.00amWelcome back and reflections on day one

COMMUNICATION: REACHING PAST THE CONVERTED

9.15amOpening Ideas: Stories, sizzle, salience and social proof - how great creative communications can effectively activate behaviour change beyond the usual suspects

A short �lm made for the congress by Ed Gillespie, Co-Founder of Futerra Sustainability Communications (UK),

Followed by top line responses from:

Dr Tom Crompton, Change Strategist, WWF (UK) via video conferenceBen Peackock, Founder, Republic of EveryoneLes Robinson, Director, Enabling Change

Followed by Q&A and discussion

10.00amThe Power of Story

Using the inherent power of story to bring initiatives to life is a connecting force to be reckoned with. Here we look at how to gain a deeper understanding of the organisation or community you are working in, through compelling real life examples.

CASE STUDIES include:

Leveraging Stories to make issues real: The EPA Neighbour-hood Noise Stories Project Using story for cultural diagnosis and change: Exploring and enabling flexible working options within a large Australian corporate What’s with the Story Zeitgeist? Reflecting on 3 years of running The Story Conference in Melbourne.

Andrew Rixon, Director, Babel Fish Group

10.30am Morning Tea

10.50am

Facilitated Group Activity: Finding and using story in ourselves and others

In this session, we will look at ways to �nd and communicate our own stories, help others do the same and pass on these skills to others.



11.45amConnecting the emotional with the intellectual: Sydney Playback Theatre

This innovative session will take story to another level. Improvised and interactive theatre form is entertainment and discovery rolled into one. Playback accesses the stored knowledge and experience within us as a group, knowledge and experience/stories that might otherwise be passed over in the rush to move forward. Playback acknowledges the past and the present, and in doing so creates a springboard to the future. The dynamic combination of theatre and storytelling will build connections and fresh perspective needed to advance our work in behaviour change.

12.45pm Lunch

EVALUATION AND MEASURING SUCCESS

1.45pmHow do we develop, adapt and use creative evaluation tools?

Measuring impact in complex and unpredictable environments is notoriously dif�cult and often consumes a high level of resources.

DAY TWO CONTINUED...

What tools and methods are already available in sustainability and other fields of behaviour change? How we can use resources prudently to evaluate the effectiveness of our work? A whistle-stop tour of leading evaluation resources and tools profiled at two recent conferences – the World Social Marketing Conference (Dublin) and the Australasian Evaluation Society Conference (Sydney).

CASE STUDY: Evaluation of a behaviour change for sustainabil-ity program, and how it performed under the ‘stress test’ of real world conditions.

Duncan Rintoul, Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research, University of Wollongong

Roberta Ryan, Director of Public Policy, Urbis

These presentations will be punctuated by facilitated group activities to help delegates consider how these tools and approaches can be adapted to suit their own evaluation challenges.

Lead Facilitators: Geoff Brown, Roberta Ryan, Duncan RintoulCo-Facilitators: Behaviour Change Active Learning Program members (see pg 2)


3.15pm

Closing Address

Professor Ian Lowe, President of the Australian Conservation Foundation and professor of science, technology and society at Grif�th University

3.45pmSocial media harvest and congress evaluation

4.15pm Congress CLOSE

For more info on participants, program updates and

related resources, please visit www.3pillarsnetwork.com.au

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OFFICIAL CONGRESS DINNERThursday 10th Nov, 6.30pm - 9.30pm

THE COMMONS Local Eating House32 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney

All congress participants are invited to join us for a convivial and relaxed dinner on the evening of Thursday 10th November. This is a great opportunity to cultivate relationships formed during the day and continue interesting conversations in an informal setting.

Contribution$95 per person which includes three courses, some drinks and transport to and from the congress venue. The congress dinner is a nonpro�t event, hosted to build and nurture community between congress delegates and speakers. About the restaurantTHE COMMONS is a local eating house and bar located in the quiet back streets of Darlinghurst, Sydney. The menu and ambience is inspired by skilled, traditional cooking that uses regional, sesaonal produce and ingredients that “taste of what they are“.

See www.thecommons.com.au for more details

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EVENTS, DATES & VENUES:

Behaviour Change for Sustainability

Date: Thursday 10th- Friday 11th November 2011Time: 08:30am – 5:00pmVenue: Australian Technology Park, Bay 4 Atrium, Locomotive Workshop, 2 Locomotive Street, Eveleigh NSW 2015, Sydney T: + 61 2 9209 4220 Easily accessible by public transport

Clinic Behaviour Change Practitioners

Date: Wednesday 9th November Time: 09:00am – 1pm Venue: Sydney, TBC

Workshop Building a Community of Change Agents

Date: Wednesday 9th November Time: 1.30pm – 5.30pm Venue: Sydney, TBC

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Date: Thursday November 10thTime: 6.30pm – 9.30pmVenue: Central Sydney TBC T: + 61 2 9245 2488

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Group Discounts are available for groups of 3 or more. Please contact Zaf Makdum on 02 9555 4203 for this special rate.

EARLY BIRD RATE Book and pay BEFORE 21st October 2011 Member Rate Non-Member Rate

2 Day Congress $650 $750

2 Day Congress + Building a Community of Change Workshop $890 $990

Building a Community of Change Workshop ONLY $350 $450

Practitioners Clinic $495 $595

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2 Day Congress $750 $850

2 Day Congress + Building a Community of Change Workshop $990 $1090

Building a Community of Change Workshop ONLY $450 $550

Practitioners Clinic $595 $695

Congress Dinner $95 �at rate

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