Envisioning Exercise- Future Biopic

I have been partaking in a sustainability training course called Green Steps @ Uni. This course focuses on the skills that are needed to create change towards sustainability in organisations. At the conclusion of this course we were required to write a one paragraph future biopic. In this future biopic we were to put in what we envision our career path to be in twenty years time and this biopic is being read out at a conference. This is a version of Envisioning; one of the elements of Education for Sustainable Development.

 I found this highly useful and at the same time caused me to be idealistic. Even though I was aware that perhaps some of the things I had written down in my biopic may never eventuate it gave me permission to be idealistic. I guess through doing this exercise it gives you something to work towards and that feeling that you should never give up on something no matter how idealistic it may seem. It also helped with thinking about who I want to be as an environmental educator and where I want to focus.

This was the two paragraphs that I wrote in the 15 minutes that were given:

Conference: Nature Education Symposium

Job Description: Environmental/Sustainability Educator

Biopic: Rhiannon has been working as an Environmental Educator for twenty years  now helping all types of people engage with their natural environment and build meaningful connections. In that time she has worked as an education officer for National Parks and Wildlife and has written a book on the human need to be connected with the environment. She has been overseas working with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds as an engagement officer in the United Kingdom and spent two years working with the World Society for the Protection of Animals and the Borneo Orangutan Society helping to develop education programs that will help local and orangutans live harmoniously with each other. Now she is in the process of setting up an education centre coupled with an animal rescue program to help people make connections and care for their domestic and wild animals.

She is here to talk to you about never giving up on your dream to protect the environment and how you can make a difference as an environmental educator.