Civil society practitioners face urgent sustainability challenges: limited resources, high expectations with minimal support, mission-driven cultures that can lead to burn-out, and pressure to deliver impact while maintaining personal well-being.
The Swedish network members SwIdeas and Well-being Lab Sweden join forces to deliver a workshop that addresses one of civil society's most critical challenges: developing personal leadership for sustainability that enables individuals to lead change within their organizations.
According to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency Report (2021), the most common reason for sick leave is mental health, especially exhaustion, burn-out and reactions to severe stress. In 2020, nearly 49% of women and 38% of men on sick leave were struggling with mental health challenges. Recovery from burn-out takes on average 1-3 years.
The workshop integrates two essential dimensions of sustainable leadership: understanding and addressing environmental and social challenges, while building personal resilience to lead effectively over time.
Emily Hanna and Julia Moreira from SwIdeas, drawing on 10+ years of transnational experience in non-formal education, will guide participants through self-reflection, sustainability challenge analysis, and action planning.
Karolina Mazetyte from Well-being Lab Sweden will introduce the "Wheel of Well-being at the Workplace" and guide participants to an in-depth understanding of burn-out.
This partnership creates a holistic approach: participants gain improved self-awareness of their own leadership potential and knowledge of environmental issues, as well as well-being strategies to sustain their leadership.
🗓️ Tuesday 12 May at 09.00 - 15.30
📍 Malmö Ideella, Malmö
Language: English
We offer lunch and fika.
Free participation. No-show fee 300 kronor.
Expected learnings:
- Define and articulate personal leadership for sustainability in civil society contexts, understanding how individual leaders can drive organizational change
- Assess your own leadership capacity and motivations using the Leadership Self-Compass tool to identify what inspires and what hinders your sustainable leadership journey
- Understand environmental, climate and biodiversity challenges and how they relate to your organization, developing deeper awareness of sustainability issues you want to address as a leader
- Integrate well-being practices as a foundation for resilient leadership, learning to prevent burn-out while maintaining the capacity to lead effectively over time
- Create actionable plans for leading sustainability change in your organization that integrate well-being practices, concrete steps, and follow-up mechanisms
FOR WHOM?
Civil society workers who want to develop their personal leadership for sustainability – to lead change within their organizations while maintaining their own well-being.
This workshop works for:
- Both experienced leaders and those new to leadership roles
- Organizations of different sizes
- Those working with different sustainability themes
AGENDA
09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome and Introduction to Leadership for Sustainability
09:30 – 10:15 | Workshop #1 - Leadership Self-Compass tool (Julia & Emily, SwIdeas)
Assess your personal leadership capacity, motivations and barriers.
10:15 – 10:30 | Break
10:30 – 12:00 | Workshop #2 - Well-being at the Workplace (Karolina, Well-being Lab)
Understanding burn-out and building resilience through practical prevention strategies.
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:15 | Workshop #3: Sustainability challenges and solution framing (Julia & Emily, SwIdeas)
Exploring challenges and brainstorming solutions for your chosen sustainability challenge.
14.15 – 14.30 | Coffee break
14:30 – 15:15 | Action planning
14:30 – 15:15 | Workshop #4 - Action planning (Julia & Emily, SwIdeas)
Concrete plans to lead sustainability change in your organisation and integrating well-being practices for sustainable impact.
15:15 – 15:30 | Closing Session: Reflection & Evaluation (Julia & Emily, SwIdeas)
About the trainers
Julia B. C. Moreira (Lead Analyst and Senior Project Manager at SwIdeas). Julia brings an interdisciplinary approach to environmental and sustainability challenges, connecting social and ecological dimensions to promote climate resilience. With 6+ years in project management and environmental education, she ensures process oversight and designs engaging projects and initiatives for lifelong learning.
Emily Hanna (Training Coordinator and Project Manager at SwIdeas). Emily is committed to ensuring inclusion, equality, and leaving no one behind in societal and digital development. With 10+ years in project management, international development, and human rights, she manages socially inclusive projects and develops innovative adult education methodologies grounded in real needs.
Karolina Mazetyte (Co-founder and trainer at Well-being Lab). Karolina is a social entrepreneur, trainer and facilitator, TEDx speaker, co-author of a collaborative book “A mile in our shoes: stories of our global journeys’’, ChangemakerXchange facilitator, and an Intercultural Citizenship Education Trainer. Her passion lies in facilitating and creating spaces for human connection and potential to flourish.