A creative, land based approach
…and a valuable investment for an innovative and regenerative future
Our approach is a simple one - when we feel well, when we feel safe, when we feel connected with each other and with the natural world… we make better decisions.
Increasingly, we are waking up to more sustainable ways of doing business.
We’re exploring new ways to make better decisions in our organizations.
Decisions that are holistic, resilient, adaptive, transformative and sustainable. Decisions that can help heal our organizations. And decisions which honour that the personal and professional are absolutely woven together.
Our world is changing at a rapid pace, and we need to be resilient and adaptable if we want to transition, transform, and thrive amongst it. And establishing our connection with the natural world is one way to support our ability to make effective and innovative decisions in our places of work and organizations.
Forge and Deepen Connections
Maybe you’re looking for a new way to effectively figure out those tricky scenarios that inevitably arise in your workplace. Maybe you want to build comradery with your team or resolve interpersonal conflict. Maybe you need clarity for your strategic planning. Maybe you’ve noticed that compromised mental health has taken a toll on productivity and ingenuity. Maybe you’re making a decision that may impact lands and waters and you’re wondering how to go about it in a good way. Maybe you and your team are just trying to feel like you belong.
Here, let me encourage you that we can absolutely bring a work-related question to the natural world, and work with it creatively to gain insight and answers. In doing so, you can forge and deepen connections and partnerships amongst your colleagues, within your community, and the lands you live and work on. Working this way can also take us away from all the emails, boardrooms, and meetings that rattle our minds like a pinball machine to help us create space and gain some perspective.
So what does this look like?
CASE STUDIES
A week-long retreat for Executives in the business sector to: hone in on take-home resiliency practices; decision making on specific work-place issues; summarizing & integrating core personal & professional objectives.
A 3-part strategic planning session for an Indigenous organization, to map out current organizational priorities, relational dynamics and project initiatives; paired with an exploration of possible courses of action.
Over the course of several months, supporting a municipal government take a unique approach to expert stakeholder consultation and engagement to develop a climate action plan.
During individual coaching sessions, supporting the mental health and well-being of individual professionals working on complex, controversial issues; identifying individualized skills and supports to bring into the workplace.
Professional development staff day for a governmental organization to look at practical ways to strengthen personal resiliency in the workplace; explore collective organizational questions & relational dynamics with clients; boost team cohesion with group experientials.
Supporting clients since 2019 with an innovative & experiential approach
Since its inception in 2019, the innovative and experiential approach developed and used by founder Sarah West of Earthen Vision has successfully supported clients in Indigenous communities, business sector executives, municipal governments, and governmental agencies. It’s also been presented at numerous national and international conferences.
The model of creative, land-based decision making, called the Triple Spiral Framework, has the capacity to help us identify transformative out-of-the-box solutions. How? Because its intentional, relational, and reciprocal approach can enable a group to listen to each other and the land itself with curiosity, respect and possibility through creation and conversation.
Grounded on a three-fold practice, we intentionally cultivate a genuine, deep and reciprocal relationship, where we ask, listen to, and reciprocate with the natural world.
Sarah actively teaches about the Triple Spiral Framework in her courses, workshops and forthcoming book With Intention, With the Land.
Let’s connect and explore what’s available to you through the work of Earthen Vision.
We’ll be with you every step of the way, wherever your feet are planted.