Webinar - Behaviour Change in a Changing Climate

Mitigating and adapting to climate change is complex. It requires social change on a scale and timeline that often makes it difficult to know what works, or how to target your community behaviour change programs.

Simple logic arguments based on science and data are not enough. These are super-wicked problems based in an organic human system, and the social change required goes beyond traditional ways of thinking about behaviour change models.

Presented in collaboration with the Regional Climate Partnerships, this webinar will explore how we can use systems thinking, adaptive leadership practices, and practice theory to understand the complex relationships between what people do and how local governments seek to influence them.

About the Presenters

Dr Josie McLean (The Partnership)

“The human dimension of sustainability”

Since 1999, Josie has been at the intersection of strategy, people, and change – with individuals, teams and organisations. Since 2006 she has been focused on research into how organisations can be shaped to be truly sustainable and sustaining for their people, communities, and the planet.

Her pragmatic PhD, undertaken at the University of Adelaide’s Business School, explored “Embedding sustainability into organisational DNA” and developed her expertise in topics including living systems (complexity), sustainability, change, leadership, and organisational transformation.

Josie has also been involved in an interdisciplinary team funded by NCCARF to explore how farmers and regional communities may adapt to climate change. She continues to publish in the sphere of systemic change, systems thinking, and sustainability.

Dr David Meiklejohn (Meiklejohn.com)

“Super wicked problems, practice and transition theory solutions”

David is a local government and sustainability behaviour change professional with more than 25 years’ experience working in Australia and the UK. Until recently, he was the Executive Officer of the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA), and the National Coordinator of Climate Emergency Australia.

David has also recently completed a PhD on the response of Australian local governments to climate with a particular focus on the use of community engagement methodologies. This has identified shortcomings in current approaches as well as pathways for improved engagement at a scale commensurate with the threat of climate change.

David has also worked as a senior behaviour change consultant specialising in sustainable transport and healthy living behaviour projects, engaging households at scale and workplaces. He has worked with governments in Australia and New Zealand to build their capacity to deliver travel behaviour change projects, developed strategy papers for state governments in New South Wales and Victoria, and was responsible for the establishment and development of the TravelSmart Workplaces program in Victoria.

Register your place in the webinar

Registrations are now open for the Behaviour Change in a Changing Climate.

Date: Tuesday 4 October 2022
Time: 1pm – 2.30pm
Place: Online webinar

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