Building Values-Driven Organizations, Communities and Nations
Richard Barrett used recent case studies to explore the tools, techniques and methodologies that have been used by the Barrett Values Centre (BVC) to support leaders in building values-driven organizations, communities and nations around the world. He described how BVC measures the consciousness of individuals and human group structures (organizations, communities and nations) by mapping the values to the seven levels of consciousness model. He also examined the need for a new leadership paradigm to support the global evolution of consciousness and the creation of a values-driven society. See his powerpoint presentation (10.3mb) and two illustrative video clips on Extremadura (WMV 6.2mb) and a Boardman interview (WMV 8.5mb).
Healthy University-CSO Partnerships
Professor David Wolff gave an overview of the Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) at the University of Brighton, and summarised CUPP’s own learning about what constitutes a healthy partnership between universities and civil society organisations. He referred to some of the specific characteristics of good practice. See the powerpoint presentation (1.2mb).
The Role of Values in Achieving a More Sustainable Development
David Chittenden explored the concept of sustainable development as essentially an ethical value. He touched on the values that have contributed to our current unsustainability and showed why engaging with our values is essential to changing behaviour towards more sustainable lifestyles. PERL’s approach to education for sustainable lifestyles was shown along with some examples. New measures and indicators can help in proving what works and in scaling up our efforts. See powerpoint presentation (5.1mb).
The Impacts of Using Values-Based Indicators in Projects Worldwide
Alicia Jimenez provided an overview of the involvement of the Earth Charter Initiative (ECI) as a CSO partner in the ESDinds project on values-based indicators. She presented a case study using the indicators to evaluate ECI’s own ‘Earth Charter Global Learning Opportunity’ (e-GLO) online course. In addition, she described the ECI vision of how values-based indicators could help organizations in its network, using examples from the University of Guanajuato and a Mexican non-governmental organization, Echeri Consultores. See powerpoint presentation (1mb).