The Surefoot Effect equips people, groups, and organisations in the UK and Europe with skills for sustainability and resilience. Our approach is values-based and transformational.
The Surefoot Effect provides (i) space to think; (ii) time to explore motives and feelings regarding more sustainable lifestyles, and (iii) leadership that inspires action. It is this process that allows people to create their own paths towards positive, long-lasting change. We encourage people to explore their emotions, motivations and behaviours and to make positive changes for themselves and their communities. In turn, they are able to create and share their own path forward. Not surprisingly, this simple human ripple effect ensures each wave adds to the momentum. Each new step forward leads to significant and long-lasting change. We work with individuals, community groups, public bodies and corporate organisations.
We run facilitation, co-coaching, and project management training; provide workshops for groups in resilience skills, which includes mindfulness practice; work with individuals on a coaching or mentoring basis; run group strategy development, team building, Climate Conversations and Shifting Normal workshops. We incorporate the resources and knowledge of ‘Common Cause’ and ‘Compassionate Communication’ into our work. The infrastructure and technology necessary for an energy transition matter, but the whole-hearted commitment of people is the essential ingredient for change.
Surefoot has also led group work in the area of ‘climate justice’ which looks at how vulnerable people suffer the effects of climate change the most http://www.surefooteffect.com/programmes/climate-action/climate-justice/
The Surefoot Effect is also the leading organisation of the Erasmus+ project in Adult Education “Breakthrough for Resilience: People, Places and Communities”. The project aims at making connections between people, place and community and creating resilience amongst them. The project will work with stories of resilience in 3 aspects: people, place and community.
The project seeks to find resilience approaches or tools in each of these three areas, catalogue them and explore how each model, method, resource, technique or organisation can be used to promote resilience in the other two aspects. For example, the principles of nature conservancy can be applied to fostering resilience in people and in communities too.
The Surefoot Effect is a partner in the project “Once Upon YOUR Time”. The project will use storytelling techniques to increase resilience in children and teachers in schools in four countries: Iceland, Slovenia, the UK and Spain.
