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Consultancy
Change
Open Ground can help you get to the roots of ‘what needs to change’ in your
area, and find simple means through which your organization can achieve a
rich variety of ends both communitarian and environmental. Open
Ground uses Action
Research, project evaluation, and organisational development techniques, to
help your organisation move towards sustainability.
Culture
Open Ground has recently been involved in several arts projects: delivering
a talk on place for IOTA in Inverness, and working with the Collective
Gallery in Edinburgh on the 1mile²
project. Open Ground is
working with Tramway, an international arts space in Glasgow, on the Footprints project. This is
an 18 month Action Research project engaging potential audience in a series
of conversations with Tramway, allowing the organization to learn more about
their views, and the participants to further understand the role of art in
their lives and places.
Inspiration
In 2008 Open Ground was contracted by WWF Scotland to research and document their Natural Change Project.
The Natural Change Project was developed as an innovative response to the
growing evidence that current environmental campaigns are not resulting in
the depth of behaviour change necessary. Using a pioneering values-based
approach to inspire a diverse group of individuals, the project incorporated
ideas from eco psychology, personal development, outdoor experiences,
mentoring and leadership skills.
Sam Harrison from Open Ground was the participant researcher and report
author. ‘Natural Change: psychology and sustainability,’ launched in June
2009, reveals the process of change that took place for The Natural Change
participants, the workshop
approaches used and makes valuable recommendations for future behaviour change
campaigns. The report can be downloaded from the Natural Change
website. A six-month
follow-up report discussing how Natural Change has been incorporated into the
participants’ lives will be completed in March 2010.
Vision
Open Ground has worked closely with the GalGael’s Rural Vision Action
Team, developing the
GalGael Trust’s rural program and evaluating their Navigate the Future
programme.
Research and Consultancy Projects run from a single day to
part-time over several months. Projects are charged on a daily rate.
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