Are you interested in creative approaches to sustainability in healthcare?  Our next event is online on Feb 27th. Its a Tuesday, link below.

Slowly but surely we are moving into Spring, and a group of us have been meeting to imagine together the future we choose. Our very first meeting was in October 23, and we met again on January 24. This is an invitation to you to see what we are up to in February and March.  

Who ? We are gathering a number of doctors, creatives, coaches and other fab people.  What for?  to plot and plan something creative that addresses both climate and health crises. Why? Because not tackling the biggest threat to our lives is a bit stressful. And we are not alone in seeking a fresh approach – things are already shifting: In December 2023 the Creative Health Review was launched, on how policy can embrace creative health – it makes surprisingly exciting reading.  
 We do think that there needs to be a shift in mindset in order for any climate and health targets to be met over the next decade. Continuing with ‘business as usual’ is simply not environmentally, financially or socially sustainable. As Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve problems at the same level of thinking that we were at when we created those problems.”  We have been struck by the brilliance and creativity of the people we have already connected with – and what could happen if we shared this more widely. Our conundrum since the Halloween get together has been: 

1)  How to make a useful container for people’s creativity and new approaches to ongoing problems, something which allows and encourages new ways of doing things by gathering together ideas from a diverse group of people ?   We have been revisiting Sharma’s Theory U from MIT for some inspiration here, and the work of Nora Bateson

2)  And secondly, how do you ensure these this cross pollination of ideas is useful, is cultivated and over time becomes action focused? We want to make a difference, not just talk about it. In our January meeting we ended with the questions – what is the one creative micro change that we can each make before the next meeting ? And what is a change that we could make together that we can’t do alone? 

February meeting : Tuesday the 27th 1 – 2.30 online      Join Zoom Meeting       https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3471756579?omn=83972368695   Meeting ID: 347 175 6579  No password

RSA run workshop on Thurs 14th of March in Brighton at the Friends Meeting House, 1.30 – 4.30.  We are collaborating with the Royal Society of Arts and offering free bursts of creativity served with cake

March meeting : Friday the 22nd 1 – 2.30 online 

Your time and energy is super precious so we will start each session with a question, and there will be a chance to tackle it in small groups and then together to create a more focused question for the following session.   We choose not to be prescriptive – your creative input is what we need – and at the same time we want to develop ideas and to enable them to flourish.   One last thing – please respond to let us know if you can come along and join in! 

With love and small acts of creative transgression, 

Sarah Andersen and Will Nicholson
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