Eco-wellbeing for organisations, groups and community

The world needs organisations, workforces and communities who foster the conditions for flourishing while staying tuned (in)to responding to the climate crisis.

There is a growing sophistication and prioritisation of wholistic strategic approaches to workplace mental health and wellbeing. And here, through compassionate nature, we bring the unique lens of social-ecological factors that impact the workforce and community, to inform our approaches. Together these approaches can drive engagement and health outcomes, sense of belonging and connection, as well as enhance capacity to add value to one’s organisation, community and greater good.

Through Compassionate Nature, Bronwyn offers:

Organisational wellbeing advisory

Strategic one on one conversations to listen, assess and respond to your organisations, workplace or group needs. These are aimed at deepening understanding, psychoeducation and coaching around approaches to eco-wellbeing challenges, such as burnout, group fatigue, vicarious trauma and interpersonal conflict

Capability building

Leadership training and group skills coaching is designed to meet the needs of your group/organisation. Guided by the continuum of needs for eco-wellbeing in climate change, foundational and bespoke training includes developing insight, knowledge and skills that:

• build psychological safety and protect group mental health and wellbeing

• address psychosocial factors that might be adding harmful stress and causing distress

• support and encourage possibilities for resilient psychological growth and

• build on organisational compassion competence.

Facilitation

Bespoke facilitated sessions focused on a range of needs including strategic action planning for mental health and wellbeing in the context of climate change, leading with psychosocial resilience, problem solving team-based challenges, engaging in difficult conversations, building civility and interpersonal skills, restorative healing practises.

World renowned evidence-based programs that we can deliver:

• Good Grief Network 10 steps to personal resilience and empowerment in a chaotic climate, developed by LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis Reau.

• Mindful Self-Compassion program developed by Kristen Neff and Chris Germer

Keynotes and speaking events

Invite the conversation into your workplace or event. Bronwyn is available for keynote presentations, panels and events. Some recently recorded events include:

• 2040 Webinar From Despair to Action: Cultivating hope in times of change

• City of Darebin Emotional awareness, psychological skills and personal mobilisation in a climate emergency Climate Emergency

• Climate Change Institute, ANU Strategies for emotional wellbeing

organisations bronwyn has worked and volunteered with

• Transition Australia

• Psychology for a safe climate

• RMIT

• Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) Mental Health Special Interest Group

• Production company KOJO

• Australian Psychological Society

• Victorian Government Climate Adaptation Sector Summit

• Darebin Council Climate Emergency Conference

• Environment Film Festival Victoria

• Australian BPD Foundation

• Banyule city council

• Yarra city council

what is eco-wellbeing?

Just like nature moves through cycles, so does our mental health and wellbeing, individually and collectively. ‘’Eco-Wellbeing’’ is a framework that Compassionate Nature developed to inform where an organisational and/or groups needs are, what aspects they could strengthen, and how they might like to begin. Each part of the cycle has a purpose and role in contributing to the process of building and sustaining mental health and wellbeing in groups and workplaces.

what is an eco-wellbeing workplace?

‘’ECO-Wellbeing’’ – or Ecologically Compassionate Organisations for wellbeing – is a suite of offerings curated to strengthen organisational compassion competence in the context of climate change and our ecological realities. It is an evidence-based approach for workplace mental health and wellbeing, engagement and productivity. An organization and/or community or group that orients around eco-wellbeing meets both ecological and wellbeing needs by implementing empathic processes to address risks, distress, and harm. Such an organization grows a culture, systems and leadership that enable the potential for inclusive, holistic wellbeing.