Walk Your Talk 2013Walk Your Talk is designed for those actively seeking more sustainable ways of living and working... This year's theme is 'Prosperity - what does it mean to you (and us)'? Walk Your Talk is invariably a moving, productive, inspiring and refreshing experience. It's all these things because we decide to give ourselves (and each other) enough time to get really deeply into the things that matter to us most. So although it seems hard to justify time ‘off work’ and away from families, it is precisely this gift that clears our heads, relaxes us, and takes us to a depth of understanding and relationship that eludes us from day to day. Have a look at the feedback from previous events, and ask yourself why you don't deserve a fantastic working break in beautiful space, with wonderful people...Inspired Lives_ad3e2e0c-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baedInspired Lives is an executive coaching, leadership and organisation development consultancy, founded in the year 2000. We intervene to deliver lasting change through coaching, team facilitation, leadership development programmes and executive retreats.Modoto_ad3e3118-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baedModoto's visioning workshops, training events and coaching support will encourage, inspire and enable you to take your ideas and make them happen. We'll help you bring everyone on board and use all their skills and energy to turn vision into reality.Association of Sustainability PractitionersASP_ad3e31f4-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baedASP’s purpose is to connect, challenge and support people who share the vision of a more sustainable society. We do this by opening up new territory, addressing countless questions about sustainability from the domestic scale to the global. We learn as we go, finding new, innovative, practical, workable solutions and perspectives that can be passed onto others.WiserEarthWE_54b69e44-c13f-47ac-809e-e8f6f5ba258dWiser is a global village for sharing and kinship-building for people who believe in a more just and sustainable world.More sustainable ways of living and working._ad3e32ee-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baedTo provide a moving, productive, inspiring and refreshing experience._ad3e33a2-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baedSelf-DirectionEnable participants to steer their own courses and shape their own agendas to suit their purposes and needs._ad3e344c-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baed1EntrepreneursWhether you are an entrepreneur or an executive, an artist, activist, inventor or investor, a consultant, student or a policy maker, you'll leave feeling re-vitalised, more motivated and clear. Without fail, at least one person has some kind of transformative experience inspired by the rest of the group, which in turn inspires us all.ExecutivesArtistsActivists Inventors Investors Consultants Students Policy MakersRobin AlfredWalk Your Talk was originally created by Robin Alfred, Charlie O' Malley and Paul Simpson, who were brought together by Social Venture Network (Europe) and inspired/encouraged by Paul Dickinson. Set up as a conference, WYT aimed to serve cutting edge entrepreneurs creating new models of organisations that hold the promise for an environmentally and socially sustainable society. The idea was to run events with a strong emphasis on the process of peer-to-peer learning and support, which also concentrated on the practical (walking) as much as the theoretical (talking). For the first three years, it was held at Findhorn in Scotland.Charlie O' MalleyPaul SimpsonPaul DickinsonMike ZeidlerIn 2005, the Findhorn team decided they could no longer host the event. Mike Zeidler asked who else would be interested in keeping Walk Your Talk going, and has been the main organiser ever since. To date, all events have been held at Buckland Hall in the Brecon Beacons, with the generous sponsorship of Inspired Lives and modoto and promotional support from The Association of Sustainability Practitioners (ASP).WYT ParticipantsAnybody with an interest in (or passion for) balancing financial, social and environmental needs in their work. You will leave refreshed, inspired, motivated and equipped with some kind of action plan.Walk Your Talk events are held in ‘Open Space’, a lightly facilitated process in which there are no designated experts or leaders. You steer your own course as the day(s) unfold, and shape your own agenda to suit your purpose and need. People learn together by walking and talking, sharing passions, curiosities, hopes, expertise and questions.Open SpaceOffer opportunities for participants to present or lead a discussion or event on anything, even loosely related to our Walking/Talking theme._ad3e3500-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baed1.1WYT ParticipantsWe strongly encourage you to bring "live" planning challenges into Open Space for your peers to help you explore. We invite tool providers and specialists to come prepared to informally showcase their tools and applications. We invite the creation of learning networks among people with shared interests or challenges.Open Space facilitation is a process of organizing a conference that emerged from one simple realization: that the best parts of any conference are often the unorganized parts – the informal, lively buzz that happens spontaneously in the coffee breaks. Open Space uses some very simple principles to give you the freedom to have the conversations that you want to have, and ensure that you meet the people that you need to meet. It also helps the whole group experience deep learning from its shared wisdom.Walk Your Talk gatherings (these are not really conferences!), are about the mix of practical/doing (Walking) and theoretical/thinking (Talking). We invite people to see what the word ‘Balance’ raises for them while they are with us, but other than that, there is no agenda. You have an opportunity to present or lead a discussion or event on anything, even loosely related to our Walking/Talking theme, about which you feel real passion or curiosity.Learning & IdeasProvide a rich, extended opportunity for you and your peers to share learning, get to know each other and cross-pollinate ideas._ad3e35c8-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baed1.1.1Meeting ApproachModel an innovative meeting approach that you can take back and implement in your organisations and communities._ad3e3690-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baed1.1.2Discoveries & Action PlansGive real momentum to your learning, helping you leave with clear discoveries and a personal action plan._ad3e3758-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baed1.1.3Personal Action PlansEnable participants to leave with personal action plans of specific changes for their life and work._ad3e3834-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baed2Drawing on each other's wisdom, experience, encouragement and support, we all help each other with practical tips, connections, ideas, and advice to help overcome challenges and realise inspiring dreams. Many people leave with personal action plans of specific changes for their life and work._ad3e38fc-591f-11e2-be23-dcafbfa4baed2013-01-282013-01-302013-01-07http://www.walkyourtalk.net/wyt/index.php?p=OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net