This PowerPoint presentation provides details on a mental health and sustainability education initiative that is currently being trialled in the Sydney - Central Coast - Newcastle region in Australia. An abbreviated version of this seminar series can be held in other locations on request. All participants have access to background readings on this project at www.lfsl.info.

1. Learning for Sustainable Living
Seminars
October 2016
Werner Sattmann-Frese PhD

2.  I am a Senior Lecturer and Program Manager at
the Jansen Newman Institute in Sydney
(Australia) and an Adult Educator at Learning for
Sustainable Living
 You can contact me at lfsl2016@gmail.com or
through the www.lfsl.info website
 Slideshare PPT 13 January 2017

3.  The Integral Learning for Sustainable Living
seminars aim to assist people from all walks of life
in deepening their understanding of their
emotional, social, and ecological issues.
 In the safe and confidential space of a closed
group, eight to ten participants are invited to
explore their difficulties with living sustainable
lives with the aim of making their lives more
enjoyable and socially and ecologically
sustainable.

4.  You are likely to benefit from these seminars if you:
◦ Feel dissatisfied with aspects of your life
◦ Wish to enhance your communication skills
◦ Struggle with addictions
◦ Wish to enhance your sense of connection with other
people and the more-than-human world
◦ Enhance your conflict resolution skills
◦ Feel you would benefit from joining a small group of
people with the aim of creating friendships based on
mutual caring for one another and the planet.

5.  Increased life satisfaction, body-awareness,
communication skills, and understanding of the
psychosocial and environmental causes of illness
significantly reduce individuals’ ecological footprints
and thereby the pressure on our ecosystems.
 As expenditures for environmental protection and the
management of catastrophes continue to increase,
community-based health and sustainable living
initiatives are likely to become more important. This
seminar series is such an initiative.

6.  To find sustainable solutions for struggles with
sustainable living
 To enhance personal communication and the
ability to be emotionally connected to people
 To share with others successful sustainable
living strategies
 To practice self-awareness and self-regulation
 To understand the sustainable needs behind
unsustainable wants
 To deepen understanding of the links between
personal and environmental sustainability.

7.  Perspectivism
 Social ecology
 Ecopsychology
 Ecotherapy
 Ecofeminism
 Mindfulness
 Ecospirituality
 Somatics
 Psychosomatics

8.  Eight to ten participants attend ten fortnightly
meetings of three hours
 Alternatively the seminars can be offered as
two weekend workshops
 A short version of four meetings is available
 The topics of this abbreviated version are
marked with (SV 1 to 4) in the following slides

9.  Short introduction
 Working with the Sustainability Questionnaire
 Identifying personal sustainability issues by
working with the sustainability mapping
structure shown on the following slide.
 (SV1)

11.  In these meetings, participants address the
sustainability issues identified through the
sustainability mapping process and support others
in their explorations.
 Each of these meetings except the last one starts
with a 45-minute presentation and discussion on an
important aspect of sustainable living.
 These small educational presentations and
discussions assist participants in deepening their
understanding of important sustainable living
issues.

12.  (1) Understanding the sustainable needs behind
unsustainable ‘wants’ (SV2)
 (2) Body awareness and mindfulness (SV3)
 (3) Spirituality and person-planet unity experiences
(SV4)
 (4) Ecological aspects of relationship conflicts
 (5) Holistic understanding of addictions
 (6) Ecological views of mental illness
 (7) Psychosocial aspects of physical illness
 (8) Environmental aspects of physical illness

13.  The seminars can be used as professional development
for professionals such as counsellors, psychotherapists,
social workers, and sustainability educators.
 An online learning environment is currently being
developed at ww.lfsl.info for individuals who have
completed the seminar series and wish to gain the
knowledge and skills to facilitate these seminars and
similar courses.
 Efforts are currently being made to offer this project in
collaboration with a higher education training provider.

14.  Social work
 Lifelong learning and extension
 Counselling and psychotherapy
 Sustainability education
 Population health
 Ecopsychology

15.  Werner Sattmann-Frese is a counsellor and psychotherapist
with more than 30 years of work experience. He holds a
Master of Applied Science degree in Social Ecology and a
PhD for the completion of a research project on the
psychosocial background of ecological crises and the
interrelationships between personal, social, and
environmental sustainability. For the last ten years Werner
has been working as a Sessional Lecturer at the University
of Western Sydney and as a full-time Lecturer and Program
Manager at the Jansen Newman Institute in Sydney.

16. All participants will get a
complementary copy of the
book ‘Learning for Sustainable
Living’ by Werner Sattmann-
Frese and Stuart Hill.
Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: Lulu.com (March
19, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1409251020
ISBN-13: 978-1409251026
Background reading

17.  Participants in the LfSL seminars will
have free access to an online course that
is currently being designed as a learning
resource for this seminar series.
 The course will be available on the
‘Learning for Sustainable Living’ website
at www.lfsl.info

18.  Please contact Werner Sattmann-Frese at
lfsl2016@gmail.com or admin@lfsl.info to gain
additional information on this initiative.
 Venues: Community and environmental centres in
the Sydney, Central Coast and Newcastle areas.
 Cost when paid by participants: $55 ($40) per 3-
hour seminar
 $480 ($360) when paid at the beginning of the
series of seminars.

19.  Bendigo Sustainable Living Group
 http://www.bsg.org.au/groups/
 Sustainable Living Tasmania
 http://www.slt.org.au/community_group_support
 City of Darebin – sustainable living
 http://www.darebin.vic.gov.au/en/Darebin-Living/Caring-for-
 Grow
 http://www.grow.org.au/

20.  Centre for Global Mental Health
 http://www.centreforglobalmentalhealth.org/projects/India
 http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-
states/psychiatrist-vikram-patel-in-times-100-influential-
people-list/article7116887.ece
 Centre for Sustainable Health Care
 http://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/
 The George Institute for Global Health
 http://www.georgeinstitute.org.au/units/neurological-and-
mental-health

21.  http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/cost/cost.pdf
 http://www.environment.gov.au/land/green-army
 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212
041614001648
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20333947
 http://www.basicneeds.org/prioritising-mental-health-
in-the-sustainable-development-goals/
 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/
02/united-nations-mental-health-development-goals