Professional Mission Statement: Lynnes Mission Statement: 1 Sentence - PDF document

Professional Mission Statement: Lynne’s Mission Statement: 1 Sentence professional mission statement: I create healthy regenerative environments using Permaculture principles to enrich the soil and facilitate learning opportunities for people to transition to healthier more sustainable lifestyles. My passion for the Earth fuels my desire to act in her behalf. I am giving voice to her wounds, and celebrating her wonder and diversity. As I co-create with nature and reveal her bounty I also have an opportunity to learn and grow. These seeds of knowledge need to be shared with the community. We are all connected in countless ways to each other and the earth and each of our life’s choices makes a difference. My children, future grandchildren and future generations are all pulling me towards this destiny of caring, sharing and action. This mission requires keeping my body, mind, and spirit healthy and strong, so I can lead by example. To help our Earth, I must start with the soil and help people, both adults and kids, to make that connection in a meaningful way. I want them to really see how our food system, our health system, our mental models need to change if we are to live fully functioning abundant sustainable lives. I plan to do this through my organic growing, coaching, workshops, and community outreach in my retirement years. Little Steps Gardens will grow more than food, it will grow people, community, awareness, and foster a love of nature. One part of Presentation Project Proposal: One of my project proposals is to create a presentation to nudge people into composting little by little starting with baby steps. This could be a whole series of workshops that could be geared towards building the momentum to create a community compost site at a community garden, or a school composting program for a school garden. Or just individual separate workshops geared toward different groups, school kids, girl scout/boy scout troops, home gardeners, or people just interested in doing what they can for the environment. My first presentation is for an environmental fair for our community. In this scenario I am trying to get people in my community excited about composting enough to give it a try. I realize that this fair will have people of all ages, both adults and children. I am going to try to appeal to the kids mostly because I feel that they would actually want to try this method out. This is a project that is very doable, and they can actually have a hand at creating a better environment. I would have some interactive demonstrations, hands on stuff, various stages. Obviously, the kids would need permission from their parents, and maybe some help but I could demonstrate just how easy it is to set up the containers and let them practice doing it. It doesn’t matter whether you live in an apartment, or you have a home with some kind of yard or garden. People have this misconception that they need a garden in order to compost. That is simply not true. Compost Happens, and it can happen anywhere, you just need a little help to get started. So first I ask some questions? Why compost? What are the benefits of composting? Has anyone composted before? What are the misconceptions about compost? I ask why more people don’t compost, and I usually get answers like, why should I do it? (I don’t garden, don’t have any need

to) What am I going to do with it? I am sure I will get some answers like, I don’t want to deal with garbage, it’s smelly, draws flies, etc. too. So what would compel people to compost? What compels people to recycle? Their towns and municipalities require it, or else they might not do it. They understand that when they recycle, less waste goes into the landfill. Metal, glass and plastic can all be recycled and they know it’s better for the earth, less for the landfills, so why not take the leap and do the same for the food wastes they produce? In order to be an effective and informative training workshop the presentation will address these objectives. 1 Ask the right questions, help them to identify their questions. Why? Why not? 2. Set a measurable goal for the participants. 3. Identify what people need to do. What are the steps they need to take? 4. Identify why they aren’t doing it already, what are the stumbling blocks? 5. Evaluate the process in the real world. How did it work out? Feedback is important. One audience analysis: Scenario, speaking at a community fair, addressing various age groups. First I would ask them what they know already, and why do they think it’s important. What would their reasons for wanting to take on this project? Perhaps for girl scouts/ boy scouts they could earn an environmental badge of some sorts. They would be helping the environment, keeping methane out of the atmosphere, reducing impact on landfills, learning about the processes of decomposition, and growing healthy soils. For gardeners, it’s easy; they are creating a very rich addition to build soil health. What would I want them to know believe or do because of my speech? I would want them to understand how important it is to keep food waste out of landfills. I would want them all to know how easy it is to compost, t hat it can be done anywhere even in an apartment. It isn’t hard to do, It isn’t time consuming, it helps the environment, and feeds the soil, can be black gold to a gardener, and can be a small step that they can feel good about every day. How can I present the information in a way that best conveys my message? In order to appeal to a wide range of people, it has to be fun and memorable. I would have a hands on workshop, I would have various YouTube video links with all the steps we went over in the workshops for the different types of compost, Hot, cool, vermicomposting, barrel, piles, etc. that they could view on their phones or laptops/pc’s as well as handouts with the steps as a back -up. I would also offer my email address if someone wants to ask more questions about the various processes we discussed. I really love the whole idea of using a blended learning experience for my presentations with digital interaction from the group since I think it would make them feel more connected right from the start. This statement by Brown in our text is really a perfect place to start my Little Steps/ Sustainable/ Attainable Permaculture workshops. "The answer to illusion and misjudgment is to replace subjective experience as the basis for decisions with a set of objective gauges outside ourselves, so that our judgment squares with the real world around us. When we have reliable reference points and make a habit of checking them, we can make good decisions about where to focus our efforts..." (Brown, p. 124) The first workshop would be all about gathering real data to evaluate and access where we are at on this continuum of sustainability. What are our illusions, and misjudgments about living