Sustainability News ATU Holds Radical Transformational Leadership Workshop

ATU recently invited public and private organisations from Mayo to a Radical Transformational Leadership workshop to look at how ATU and local organisations can collaborate to address global challenges locally.

Dr Monica Sharma and Bridget Horkan designed and delivered the workshop. Dr Monica Sharma is an International Expert and Practitioner on Leadership Development for sustainable and equitable change and Bridget Horkan is a Radical Transformational Leadership practitioner coach.

The event highlighted the convening role of a regional multi-campus technological university and the importance of local stakeholders working together to create results-oriented partnerships and projects.

The workshop was developed under the ATU Centre for Sustainability’s Radical

Sustainability Lab project, in collaboration with ATU Mayo’s Department of Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences.

Representatives from Mayo County Council, Údarás na Gaeltachta, Business in the Community, An Táisce, Mayo Sligo Leitrim Education Training Board (MSLETB), Moy Valley Resources, Community group leaders, ATU students and staff, and others involved in biodiversity projects and climate action participated in the workshop.

The day and a half workshop was a learning in action programme designed to awaken potential and ethical leadership in managers, with the aim of transforming lives, work and society.

The workshop was based on Dr Monica Sharma’s 35+ years’ experience in applying the Conscious Full-Spectrum Response model (CFSR) which has generated equitable and sustainable results related to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), worldwide.

The CFSR model is a foundational development model that has achieved results worldwide.

It is a transdisciplinary model and template for strategic action and is robust enough to hold the frameworks of different disciplines and various schools of thought. It intertwines three threads of a paradigm shift: (a) source our wisdom/inner potential and universal values for action; (b) shift cultural norms, systems, and structures that maintain the status quo and to become principled game changers; and (c) solve problems to generate specific equitable and sustainable results.

Reflecting on the workshop, Dr Garvey said: “Participants applied the tools and templates and identified break-through projects with synergistic opportunities to work together in Mayo and beyond for stepping up to our commitment to responding to SDGs. A follow-up session has been organised with participants, to continue this work and progress these projects with specific outcomes.”

About the ATU Galway-Mayo Centre for Sustainability

The ATU Galway-Mayo Centre for Sustainability aims to demonstrate leadership through a whole-ofuniversity approach to embed sustainability, the SDGs and climate action at the very core of the university’s values, actions, and culture. To find out more about the centre, please click here.